WWH vs. BPT, CLDN, CTY, HVPE, JAM, MRC, TEM, PNL, PHLL, and HGT
Should you be buying Worldwide Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worldwide Healthcare include Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Caledonia Investments (CLDN), City of London (CTY), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), JPMorgan American (JAM), The Mercantile Investment Trust (MRC), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), Personal Assets (PNL), Petershill Partners (PHLL), and HgCapital Trust (HGT). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) and Bridgepoint Group (LON:BPT) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their earnings, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, media sentiment, dividends, community ranking, profitability and analyst recommendations.
Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Bridgepoint Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 9 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Worldwide Healthcare pays out -30,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Bridgepoint Group pays out 10,000.0% 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 has a beta of 0.32, suggesting that its stock price is 68% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgepoint Group has a beta of 1.64, suggesting that its stock price is 64% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Bridgepoint Group has a net margin of 21.98% compared to Worldwide Healthcare's net margin of -25.59%. Bridgepoint Group's return on equity of 9.47% beat Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity.
Bridgepoint Group has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Bridgepoint Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 3 more articles in the media than Bridgepoint Group. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 2 mentions for Bridgepoint Group. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.66 beat Bridgepoint Group's score of -0.34 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Worldwide Healthcare received 63 more outperform votes than Bridgepoint Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 75.00% of users gave Bridgepoint Group an outperform vote while only 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote.
Bridgepoint Group has a consensus target price of GBX 249.50, indicating a potential upside of 9.62%. Given Bridgepoint Group's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Bridgepoint Group is more favorable than Worldwide Healthcare.
58.2% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 21.5% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by institutional investors. 0.5% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 26.8% of Bridgepoint Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Bridgepoint Group beats Worldwide Healthcare on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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