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Worldwide Healthcare (WWH) Competitors

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GBX 356.50 +5.00 (+1.42%)
As of 10/24/2025 12:03 PM Eastern

WWH vs. HL, PCT, ABDN, ATST, PHLL, JGGI, 3IN, RCP, MNKS, and CTY

Should you be buying Worldwide Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worldwide Healthcare include Hargreaves Lansdown (HL), Polar Capital Technology Trust (PCT), abrdn (ABDN), Alliance Trust (ATST), Petershill Partners (PHLL), JPMorgan Global Growth & Income (JGGI), 3i Infrastructure (3IN), RIT Capital Partners (RCP), Monks (MNKS), and City of London (CTY). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.

Worldwide Healthcare vs. Its Competitors

Hargreaves Lansdown (LON:HL) and Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) are both financial services companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership and dividends.

66.7% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 10.2% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. 29.4% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.2% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Hargreaves Lansdown has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 2 more articles in the media than Hargreaves Lansdown. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of -0.03 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Hargreaves Lansdown
0 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Worldwide Healthcare
2 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 2.80 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. Hargreaves Lansdown pays out 6,935.5% 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 -6.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Worldwide Healthcare is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Hargreaves Lansdown has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Hargreaves Lansdown, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Hargreaves Lansdown£764.90M0.00£293.20M£0.62N/A
Worldwide Healthcare-£205.14M-7.08£227.88M-£40.40-8.82

Worldwide Healthcare has a net margin of 92.78% compared to Hargreaves Lansdown's net margin of 82.61%. Hargreaves Lansdown's return on equity of 82.68% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Hargreaves Lansdown82.61% 82.68% 17.10%
Worldwide Healthcare 92.78%11.22%-2.02%

Summary

Hargreaves Lansdown beats Worldwide Healthcare on 9 of the 14 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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WWH vs. The Competition

MetricWorldwide HealthcareAsset Management IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.42B£1.48B£4.94B£2.66B
Dividend Yield0.68%4.70%4.40%5.35%
P/E Ratio-8.8244.2023.03400.60
Price / Sales-7.081,992.641,375.9898,316.81
Price / Cash37.5460.47127.7627.90
Price / Book0.961.372.167.26
Net Income£227.88M£264.59M£1.22B£5.88B
7 Day Performance3.78%1.12%0.94%1.03%
1 Month Performance10.03%0.93%1.24%1.68%
1 Year Performance3.78%8.85%38.20%111.57%

Worldwide Healthcare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
WWH
Worldwide Healthcare
N/AGBX 356.50
+1.4%
N/A+3.9%£1.42B-£205.14M-8.82N/APositive News
HL
Hargreaves Lansdown
0.877 of 5 stars
N/AN/AN/A£5.26B£764.90M1,787.901,850High Trading Volume
PCT
Polar Capital Technology Trust
N/AGBX 432.75
-0.5%
N/A+44.5%£4.94B£122.39M4,340.54120Positive News
ABDN
abrdn
1.9368 of 5 stars
GBX 207.40
-0.2%
GBX 208.60
+0.6%
+39.2%£3.71B£1.68B1,191.954,719News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
ATST
Alliance Trust
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.58B£652.76M600.003
PHLL
Petershill Partners
1.1493 of 5 stars
GBX 305
-1.0%
GBX 311.33
+2.1%
+44.6%£3.30B£1.15B352.89N/A
JGGI
JPMorgan Global Growth & Income
N/AGBX 569.42
-0.6%
N/A+0.4%£3.28B£41.10M8,575.54N/ANews Coverage
3IN
3i Infrastructure
N/AGBX 355.12
-0.2%
N/A+8.9%£3.28B£338M983.70N/A
RCP
RIT Capital Partners
N/AGBX 2,041.58
+1.6%
N/A+16.9%£2.83B£304.80M1,094.0962
MNKS
Monks
N/AGBX 1,491.11
-0.6%
N/A+29.0%£2.58B-£12.00M-17,900.47N/A
CTY
City of London
N/AGBX 507.58
-0.5%
N/A+19.7%£2.53B£344.24M732.33N/ADividend Announcement

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This page (LON:WWH) was last updated on 10/25/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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