WWH vs. MRC, CLDN, BPT, TEM, JAM, HVPE, PNL, FEV, CTY, and WTAN
Should you be buying Worldwide Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worldwide Healthcare include The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Templeton Emerging Markets Investment Trust (TEM), JPMorgan American (JAM), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), City of London (CTY), and Witan Investment Trust (WTAN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) and The Mercantile Investment Trust (LON:MRC) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, risk, earnings and community ranking.
Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, The Mercantile Investment Trust has a beta of 1.12, meaning that its stock price is 12% more volatile than the S&P 500.
73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 47.7% of The Mercantile Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.7% of The Mercantile Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 11 more articles in the media than The Mercantile Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for The Mercantile Investment Trust. The Mercantile Investment Trust's average media sentiment score of 1.53 beat Worldwide Healthcare's score of 0.33 indicating that The Mercantile Investment Trust is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
The Mercantile Investment Trust has a net margin of 76.99% compared to Worldwide Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. The Mercantile Investment Trust's return on equity of 4.03% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.
Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. The Mercantile Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Worldwide Healthcare pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. The Mercantile Investment Trust pays out 8,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
The Mercantile Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than The Mercantile Investment Trust, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
The Mercantile Investment Trust received 5 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote while only 57.04% of users gave The Mercantile Investment Trust an outperform vote.
Summary
The Mercantile Investment Trust beats Worldwide Healthcare on 13 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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