Manhattan Bridge Capital (LOAN) Competitors

Manhattan Bridge Capital (NASDAQ:LOAN) and Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.

Does the media refer more to LOAN or PINE?

In the previous week, Alpine Income Property Trust had 1 more articles in the media than Manhattan Bridge Capital. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Alpine Income Property Trust and 1 mentions for Manhattan Bridge Capital. Manhattan Bridge Capital's average media sentiment score of 1.89 equaled Alpine Income Property Trust'saverage media sentiment score.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Manhattan Bridge Capital	Very Positive
Alpine Income Property Trust	Very Positive

Does the MarketBeat Community favor LOAN or PINE?

Manhattan Bridge Capital received 184 more outperform votes than Alpine Income Property Trust when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.85% of users gave Manhattan Bridge Capital an outperform vote while only 63.38% of users gave Alpine Income Property Trust an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Manhattan Bridge Capital	Outperform Votes 229 76.85%	Underperform Votes 69 23.15%
Alpine Income Property Trust	Outperform Votes 45 63.38%	Underperform Votes 26 36.62%

Do analysts recommend LOAN or PINE?

Alpine Income Property Trust has a consensus price target of $18.97, indicating a potential upside of 21.65%. Given Alpine Income Property Trust's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Alpine Income Property Trust is more favorable than Manhattan Bridge Capital.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Manhattan Bridge Capital	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00
Alpine Income Property Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	2 Hold rating(s)	6 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.75

Do institutionals and insiders hold more shares of LOAN or PINE?

21.8% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 24.5% of Manhattan Bridge Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Is LOAN or PINE a better dividend stock?

Manhattan Bridge Capital pays an annual dividend of $0.46 per share and has a dividend yield of 8.9%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.3%. Manhattan Bridge Capital pays out 97.9% 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 1,425.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Manhattan Bridge Capital has raised its dividend for 1 consecutive years and Alpine Income Property Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Manhattan Bridge Capital is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Which has more risk and volatility, LOAN or PINE?

Manhattan Bridge Capital has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.61, indicating that its stock price is 39% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is LOAN or PINE more profitable?

Manhattan Bridge Capital has a net margin of 56.93% compared to Alpine Income Property Trust's net margin of 3.96%. Manhattan Bridge Capital's return on equity of 13.06% beat Alpine Income Property Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Manhattan Bridge Capital	56.93%	13.06%	7.75%
Alpine Income Property Trust	3.96%	0.76%	0.36%

Which has preferable valuation & earnings, LOAN or PINE?

Manhattan Bridge Capital has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Alpine Income Property Trust. Manhattan Bridge Capital 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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Manhattan Bridge Capital	$7.31M	8.07	$5.48M	$0.47	10.97
Alpine Income Property Trust	$53.97M	4.12	$2.07M	$0.08	194.95

Summary

Manhattan Bridge Capital beats Alpine Income Property Trust on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.