POLR vs. WWH, MYI, ATT, VEIL, N91, FEV, PNL, JTC, WTAN, and BRW
Should you be buying Polar Capital stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Polar Capital include Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Murray International (MYI), Allianz Technology Trust (ATT), Vietnam Enterprise (VEIL), Ninety One Group (N91), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), Personal Assets (PNL), JTC (JTC), Witan Investment Trust (WTAN), and Brewin Dolphin (BRW). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Polar Capital vs. Its Competitors
Polar Capital (LON:POLR) and Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) are both small-cap asset management industry companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, valuation and institutional ownership.
Polar Capital pays an annual dividend of GBX 46 per share and has a dividend yield of 10.0%. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Polar Capital pays out 107.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Worldwide Healthcare pays out 7.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 1 more articles in the media than Polar Capital. MarketBeat recorded 1 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 0 mentions for Polar Capital. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.81 beat Polar Capital's score of 0.00 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
51.1% of Polar Capital shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 15.0% of Polar Capital shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Polar Capital presently has a consensus price target of GBX 555, suggesting a potential upside of 20.39%. Given Polar Capital's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Polar Capital is more favorable than Worldwide Healthcare.
Worldwide Healthcare has a net margin of 92.78% compared to Polar Capital's net margin of 19.65%. Polar Capital's return on equity of 32.10% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.
Polar Capital has a beta of 1.14, meaning that its share price is 14% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, meaning that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Worldwide Healthcare has higher revenue and earnings than Polar Capital. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Polar Capital, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Polar Capital and Worldwide Healthcare tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:POLR) was last updated on 8/29/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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