Urban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) vs. Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) Financial Comparison

Urban Edge Properties (NYSE:UE) and Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) are both real estate companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for Urban Edge Properties and Alpine Income Property Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Urban Edge Properties	0	2	2	0	2.50
Alpine Income Property Trust	0	4	5	2	2.82

Urban Edge Properties presently has a consensus target price of $22.67, indicating a potential upside of 16.14%. Alpine Income Property Trust has a consensus target price of $21.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.40%. Given Alpine Income Property Trust’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alpine Income Property Trust is more favorable than Urban Edge Properties.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Urban Edge Properties	13.72%	4.92%	2.03%
Alpine Income Property Trust	9.36%	2.11%	0.91%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

94.9% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 2.7% of Urban Edge Properties shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.6% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Urban Edge Properties 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
Urban Edge Properties	$471.93 million	5.22	$93.54 million	$0.54	36.14
Alpine Income Property Trust	$60.53 million	5.42	-$2.66 million	$0.19	96.39

Urban Edge Properties has higher revenue and earnings than Alpine Income Property Trust. Urban Edge Properties 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.

Risk & Volatility

Urban Edge Properties has a beta of 0.99, meaning that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.56, meaning that its share price is 44% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

Urban Edge Properties pays an annual dividend of $0.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.3%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.28 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.0%. Urban Edge Properties pays out 155.6% 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. Urban Edge Properties has raised its dividend for 2 consecutive years and Alpine Income Property Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Alpine Income Property Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Summary

Urban Edge Properties beats Alpine Income Property Trust on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Urban Edge Properties

Urban Edge Properties is a NYSE listed real estate investment trust focused on owning, managing, acquiring, developing, and redeveloping retail real estate in urban communities, primarily in the Washington, D.C. to Boston corridor. Urban Edge owns 76 properties totaling 17.1 million square feet of gross leasable area.

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.