WWH vs. CLDN, BPT, MRC, 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 Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Mercantile (MRC), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (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 Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and dividends.
73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 1 more articles in the media than Caledonia Investments. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for Caledonia Investments. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Caledonia Investments' score of 0.34 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Caledonia Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caledonia Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.77, meaning that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Caledonia Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Worldwide Healthcare pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Caledonia Investments pays out 2,969.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Caledonia Investments received 70 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Caledonia Investments an outperform vote.
Caledonia Investments has a net margin of 75.54% compared to Worldwide Healthcare's net margin of 0.00%. Caledonia Investments' return on equity of 4.47% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.
Summary
Caledonia Investments beats Worldwide Healthcare on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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