NESF vs. WWH, N91, WTAN, ATT, BRW, SNN, BHMU, JTC, PIN, and FGT
Should you be buying NextEnergy Solar Fund stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NextEnergy Solar Fund include Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Ninety One Group (N91), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Sanne Group (SNN), BH Macro USD (BHMU), JTC (JTC), Pantheon International (PIN), and Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
NextEnergy Solar Fund vs. Its Competitors
NextEnergy Solar Fund (LON:NESF) and Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, earnings, media sentiment, valuation, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Worldwide Healthcare has a net margin of 92.78% compared to NextEnergy Solar Fund's net margin of -408.61%. Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity of 11.22% beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's return on equity.
NextEnergy Solar Fund has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Worldwide Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than NextEnergy Solar Fund. NextEnergy Solar Fund is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Worldwide Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
69.9% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.4% of NextEnergy Solar Fund shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NextEnergy Solar Fund received 18 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote while only 65.69% of users gave NextEnergy Solar Fund an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 5 more articles in the media than NextEnergy Solar Fund. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for NextEnergy Solar Fund. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.63 beat NextEnergy Solar Fund's score of 0.00 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NextEnergy Solar Fund pays an annual dividend of GBX 8 per share and has a dividend yield of 11.4%. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.0%. NextEnergy Solar Fund pays out -341.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Worldwide Healthcare pays out 7.0% 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. NextEnergy Solar Fund is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
Summary
Worldwide Healthcare beats NextEnergy Solar Fund on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:NESF) was last updated on 6/14/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
