Contrasting Realty Income (NYSE:O) & Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE)

Realty Income (NYSE:O) and Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) are both real estate companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, risk, dividends, valuation and earnings.

Dividends

Realty Income pays an annual dividend of $3.26 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Realty Income pays out 238.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out 673.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Realty Income has increased its dividend for 31 consecutive years and Alpine Income Property Trust has increased its dividend for 3 consecutive years.

Volatility and Risk

Realty Income has a beta of 0.69, indicating that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.56, indicating that its stock price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

70.8% of Realty Income shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of Realty Income shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Realty Income and Alpine Income Property Trust, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Realty Income	1	9	7	1	2.44
Alpine Income Property Trust	0	4	5	2	2.82

Realty Income currently has a consensus target price of $65.87, indicating a potential upside of 22.40%. Alpine Income Property Trust has a consensus target price of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 22.24%. Given Realty Income’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Realty Income is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Realty Income and Alpine Income Property Trust”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Realty Income	$5.75 billion	8.86	$1.06 billion	$1.37	39.28
Alpine Income Property Trust	$60.53 million	5.21	-$2.66 million	$0.19	92.57

Realty Income has higher revenue and earnings than Alpine Income Property Trust. Realty Income is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Alpine Income Property Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares Realty Income and Alpine Income Property Trust’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Realty Income	20.93%	3.12%	1.72%
Alpine Income Property Trust	9.36%	2.11%	0.91%

Summary

Realty Income beats Alpine Income Property Trust on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Realty Income

Realty Income, The Monthly Dividend Company, is an S&P 500 company and member of the S&P 500 Dividend Aristocrats index. We invest in people and places to deliver dependable monthly dividends that increase over time. The company is structured as a real estate investment trust (“REIT”), and its monthly dividends are supported by the cash flow from over 15,450 real estate properties (including properties acquired in the Spirit merger in January 2024) primarily owned under long-term net lease agreements with commercial clients. To date, the company has declared 644 consecutive monthly dividends on its shares of common stock throughout its 55-year operating history and increased the dividend 123 times since Realty Income’s public listing in 1994 (NYSE: O).

About Alpine Income Property Trust

Alpine Income Property Trust, Inc. (NYSE: PINE) is a publicly traded real estate investment trust that seeks to deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns and dependable cash dividends by investing in, owning and operating a portfolio of single tenant net leased properties that are predominately leased to high-quality publicly traded and credit-rated tenants.