Alpine Income Property Trust (PINE) Competitors

Alpine Income Property Trust (NYSE:PINE) and SITE Centers (NYSE:SITC) are both small-cap finance companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends and community ranking.

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in PINE or SITC?

60.5% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 88.7% of SITE Centers shares are held by institutional investors. 0.7% of Alpine Income Property Trust shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 10.1% of SITE Centers shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Which has more risk and volatility, PINE or SITC?

Alpine Income Property Trust has a beta of 0.8, meaning that its share price is 20% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, SITE Centers has a beta of 1.62, meaning that its share price is 62% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor PINE or SITC?

Alpine Income Property Trust received 14 more outperform votes than SITE Centers when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.08% of users gave Alpine Income Property Trust an outperform vote while only 31.40% of users gave SITE Centers an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Alpine Income Property Trust	Outperform Votes 41 65.08%	Underperform Votes 22 34.92%
SITE Centers	Outperform Votes 27 31.40%	Underperform Votes 59 68.60%

Which has preferable earnings and valuation, PINE or SITC?

SITE Centers has higher revenue and earnings than Alpine Income Property Trust. SITE Centers 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
Alpine Income Property Trust	$45.64M	5.54	$2.92M	$0.22	80.50
SITE Centers	$539.46M	1.53	$265.70M	$13.67	1.15

Do analysts prefer PINE or SITC?

Alpine Income Property Trust presently has a consensus price target of $19.25, indicating a potential upside of 8.70%. SITE Centers has a consensus price target of $58.89, indicating a potential upside of 273.69%. Given SITE Centers' higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe SITE Centers 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)	2 Hold rating(s)	7 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.78
SITE Centers	0 Sell rating(s)	8 Hold rating(s)	2 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.20

Is PINE or SITC a better dividend stock?

Alpine Income Property Trust pays an annual dividend of $1.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.3%. SITE Centers pays an annual dividend of $2.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 13.2%. Alpine Income Property Trust pays out 509.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. SITE Centers pays out 15.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. SITE Centers is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Is PINE or SITC more profitable?

SITE Centers has a net margin of 164.10% compared to Alpine Income Property Trust's net margin of 6.72%. SITE Centers' return on equity of 34.20% beat Alpine Income Property Trust's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Alpine Income Property Trust	6.72%	1.23%	0.59%
SITE Centers	164.10%	34.20%	19.41%

Does the media prefer PINE or SITC?

In the previous week, SITE Centers had 1 more articles in the media than Alpine Income Property Trust. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for SITE Centers and 4 mentions for Alpine Income Property Trust. Alpine Income Property Trust's average media sentiment score of 0.01 beat SITE Centers' score of -0.02 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	1 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	2 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral
SITE Centers	2 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Neutral

Summary

SITE Centers beats Alpine Income Property Trust on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.