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Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (PCGH) Competitors

GBX 327.67 +1.67 (+0.51%)
As of 10:16 AM Eastern

PCGH vs. WTAN, BRW, VEIL, SNN, BHMU, PIN, JTC, BNKR, FGT, and LWDB

Should you be buying Polar Capital Glb Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare include Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), Brewin Dolphin (BRW), Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), Sanne Group (SNN), BH Macro USD (BHMU), Pantheon International (PIN), JTC (JTC), The Bankers Investment Trust (BNKR), Finsbury Growth & Income (FGT), and Law Debenture (LWDB). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare (LON:PCGH) and Witan Investment Trust (LON:WTAN) 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 dividends, earnings, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership and valuation.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 2 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. Witan Investment Trust pays an annual dividend of GBX 6 per share. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare pays out 3.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Witan Investment Trust pays out 1,666.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare has a net margin of 91.60% compared to Witan Investment Trust's net margin of 89.43%. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's return on equity of 16.14% beat Witan Investment Trust's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare91.60% 16.14% N/A
Witan Investment Trust 89.43%13.68%7.95%

73.7% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 8.5% of Witan Investment Trust shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.3% of Polar Capital Glb Healthcare shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 8.2% of Witan Investment Trust shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

In the previous week, Polar Capital Glb Healthcare had 4 more articles in the media than Witan Investment Trust. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for Polar Capital Glb Healthcare and 0 mentions for Witan Investment Trust. Polar Capital Glb Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.55 beat Witan Investment Trust's score of 0.00 indicating that Polar Capital Glb Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare Very Positive
Witan Investment Trust Neutral

Witan Investment Trust has higher revenue and earnings than Polar Capital Glb Healthcare. Witan Investment Trust is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital Glb Healthcare, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare£84.70M4.67£77.59M£64.675.07
Witan Investment Trust£246.38M0.00£220.34M£0.36N/A

Summary

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare beats Witan Investment Trust on 8 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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PCGH vs. The Competition

MetricPolar Capital Glb HealthcareAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£395.24M£1.28B£6.30B£3.00B
Dividend Yield0.64%4.40%4.20%5.02%
P/E Ratio5.0722.2114.00164.09
Price / Sales4.672,345.971,724.10283,944.96
Price / CashN/A60.71128.4827.97
Price / Book0.831.221.954.62
Net Income£77.59M£263.65M£1.24B£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.01%-0.11%0.20%2.12%
1 Month Performance-0.10%2.90%3.84%8.54%
1 Year Performance-14.22%5.53%18.31%64.39%

Polar Capital Glb Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PCGH
Polar Capital Glb Healthcare
N/AGBX 327.67
+0.5%
N/A-15.1%£395.24M£84.70M5.07N/APositive News
Dividend Increase
WTAN
Witan Investment Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.58B£246.38M738.896
BRW
Brewin Dolphin
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.56B£415.46M3,029.412,186
VEIL
Vietnam Enterprise
N/AGBX 657
+1.5%
N/A+13.3%£1.50B£17.87M-443.76N/A
SNN
Sanne Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.50B£194.16M-204.6720,100
BHMU
BH Macro USD
N/AGBX 4.02
-0.1%
N/A+0.0%£1.50B£2.88B34.50N/A
PIN
Pantheon International
N/AGBX 318
+1.0%
N/A+2.1%£1.47B£72.76M47.62455
JTC
JTC
2.5389 of 5 stars
GBX 843
-0.7%
GBX 1,400
+66.1%
-17.1%£1.42B£291.42M47.281,603
BNKR
The Bankers Investment Trust
N/AGBX 122.60
flat
N/A+4.8%£1.36B£231.92M6.21N/APositive News
FGT
Finsbury Growth & Income
N/AGBX 908.43
-0.3%
N/A+9.7%£1.35B£101.41M14.92N/APositive News
High Trading Volume
LWDB
Law Debenture
N/AGBX 1,008
+0.2%
N/A+12.6%£1.33B£203.87M9.38260

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This page (LON:PCGH) was last updated on 7/17/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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