WWH vs. ICP, SDR, SDRC, HL, FCIT, MNG, PCT, ATST, UKW, and 3IN
Should you be buying Worldwide Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worldwide Healthcare include Intermediate Capital Group (ICP), Schroders (SDR), Schroders (SDRC), Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), F&C Investment Trust (FCIT), M&G (MNG), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), Alliance Trust (ATST), Greencoat UK Wind (UKW), and 3i Infrastructure (3IN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Intermediate Capital Group (LON:ICP) and Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) are both financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk, community ranking, earnings, profitability, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Intermediate Capital Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 78 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.6%. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Intermediate Capital Group pays out 10,129.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Worldwide Healthcare pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
Intermediate Capital Group has a beta of 1.9, indicating that its share price is 90% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Intermediate Capital Group has a net margin of 56.78% compared to Intermediate Capital Group's net margin of 0.00%. Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity of 20.09% beat Intermediate Capital Group's return on equity.
Intermediate Capital Group received 326 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 70.44% of users gave Intermediate Capital Group an outperform vote while only 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote.
Intermediate Capital Group has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Intermediate Capital Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
70.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 1.4% of Intermediate Capital Group shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 4 more articles in the media than Intermediate Capital Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for Intermediate Capital Group. Intermediate Capital Group's average media sentiment score of 1.07 beat Worldwide Healthcare's score of 0.00 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Intermediate Capital Group beats Worldwide Healthcare on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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