Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE) Competitors

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

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of PINE or NXRT?

60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 76.6% of NexPoint Residential Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 15.4% of NexPoint Residential Trust shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Do analysts recommend PINE or NXRT?

Alpine Income Property Trust currently has a consensus target price of $18.42, indicating a potential upside of 21.20%. NexPoint Residential Trust has a consensus target price of $41.50, indicating a potential upside of 23.83%. Given NexPoint Residential Trust's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe NexPoint Residential Trust is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Alpine Income Property Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	4 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.80
NexPoint Residential Trust	0 Sell rating(s)	7 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.00

Is PINE or NXRT a better dividend stock?

Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.14 per share and has a dividend yield of 7.5%. NexPoint Residential Trust pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.1%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out -2,280.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NexPoint Residential Trust pays out -104.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Alpine Income Property Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years and NexPoint Residential Trust has raised its dividend for 3 consecutive years. Alpine Income Property Trust is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is PINE or NXRT more profitable?

Alpine Income Property Trust has a net margin of -1.24% compared to NexPoint Residential Trust's net margin of -19.55%. Alpine Income Property Trust's return on equity of -0.26% beat NexPoint Residential Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alpine Income Property Trust	-1.24%	-0.26%	-0.11%
NexPoint Residential Trust	-19.55%	-12.54%	-2.62%

Which has preferable valuation and earnings, PINE or NXRT?

Alpine Income Property Trust has higher earnings, but lower revenue than NexPoint Residential Trust. Alpine Income Property Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than NexPoint Residential 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
Alpine Income Property Trust	$56.34M	3.82	$2.07M	-$0.05	-303.90
NexPoint Residential Trust	$259.70M	3.27	$1.11M	-$1.96	-17.10

Which has more volatility & risk, PINE or NXRT?

Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.63, suggesting that its share price is 37% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NexPoint Residential Trust has a beta of 1.04, suggesting that its share price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the media prefer PINE or NXRT?

In the previous week, Alpine Income Property Trust and Alpine Income Property Trust both had 6 articles in the media. Alpine Income Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat NexPoint Residential Trust's score of 1.26 indicating that Alpine Income Property Trust is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Alpine Income Property Trust	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	0 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
NexPoint Residential Trust	5 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Alpine Income Property Trust beats NexPoint Residential Trust on 11 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.