North American Income Trust (NAIT) Competitors

Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) and North American Income Trust (LON:NAIT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, institutional ownership, valuation, community ranking, profitability, earnings, risk, analyst recommendations and media sentiment.

Which has more volatility & risk, WWH or NAIT?

Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, North American Income Trust has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is WWH or NAIT a better dividend stock?

Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. North American Income Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. Worldwide Healthcare pays out 7.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. North American Income Trust pays out 29.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years.

Do insiders and institutionals have more ownership in WWH or NAIT?

73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 51.9% of North American Income Trust shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.1% of North American Income Trust 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.

Does the media prefer WWH or NAIT?

In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 3 more articles in the media than North American Income Trust. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 0 mentions for North American Income Trust. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat North American Income Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Worldwide Healthcare	Positive
North American Income Trust	Neutral

Does the MarketBeat Community believe in WWH or NAIT?

North American Income Trust received 15 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.44% of users gave North American Income Trust an outperform vote while only 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Worldwide Healthcare	Outperform Votes 72 67.29%	Underperform Votes 35 32.71%
North American Income Trust	Outperform Votes 87 67.44%	Underperform Votes 42 32.56%

Is WWH or NAIT more profitable?

Worldwide Healthcare has a net margin of 92.78% compared to North American Income Trust's net margin of 88.41%. North American Income Trust's return on equity of 12.23% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Worldwide Healthcare	92.78%	11.22%	-2.02%
North American Income Trust	88.41%	12.23%	-0.86%

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, WWH or NAIT?

Worldwide Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than North American Income Trust. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than North American Income 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
Worldwide Healthcare	£245.62M	6.12	£227.88M	£42.96	6.58
North American Income Trust	£56.18M	6.86	£49.67M	£40.62	7.73

Summary

North American Income Trust beats Worldwide Healthcare on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.