Analyzing Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) and NETSTREIT (NYSE:NTST)

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

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares NETSTREIT 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
NETSTREIT	$195.01 million	10.71	$6.90 million	$0.13	165.12
Alpine Income Property Trust	$60.53 million	5.62	-$2.66 million	($0.09)	-228.74

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

Insider & Institutional Ownership

60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of NETSTREIT 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, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent recommendations and price targets for NETSTREIT and Alpine Income Property Trust, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
NETSTREIT	0	3	13	0	2.81
Alpine Income Property Trust	0	5	4	2	2.73

NETSTREIT currently has a consensus price target of $22.45, suggesting a potential upside of 4.57%. Alpine Income Property Trust has a consensus price target of $20.31, suggesting a potential downside of 1.33%. Given NETSTREIT’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe NETSTREIT is more favorable than Alpine Income Property Trust.

Risk and Volatility

NETSTREIT has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.54, meaning that its share price is 46% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Dividends

NETSTREIT pays an annual dividend of $0.88 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.1%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.8%. NETSTREIT pays out 676.9% 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 -1,333.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. NETSTREIT has raised its dividend for 1 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.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
NETSTREIT	5.29%	0.78%	0.43%
Alpine Income Property Trust	1.09%	0.25%	0.10%

Summary

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

About NETSTREIT

NETSTREIT Corp. is an internally managed real estate investment trust (REIT) based in Dallas, Texas that specializes in acquiring single-tenant net lease retail properties nationwide. The growing portfolio consists of high-quality properties leased to e-commerce resistant tenants with healthy balance sheets. Led by a management team of seasoned commercial real estate executives, NETSTREIT’s strategy is to create the highest quality net lease retail portfolio in the country with the goal of generating consistent cash flows and dividends for its investors.

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.