WWH vs. CLDN, BPT, MRC, TEM, JAM, HVPE, PNL, FEV, CTY, and WTAN
Should you be buying Worldwide Healthcare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Worldwide Healthcare include Caledonia Investments (CLDN), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), Mercantile (MRC), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), JPMorgan American (JAM), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Personal Assets Trust (PNL), Fidelity European Trust (FEV), City of London (CTY), and Witan Investment Trust (WTAN). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) and Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, risk, media sentiment, profitability and valuation.
Caledonia Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Caledonia Investments pays out 2,969.4% 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 -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
11.6% of Caledonia Investments shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 40.0% of Caledonia Investments 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.
Caledonia Investments received 70 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote while only 60.94% of users gave Caledonia Investments an outperform vote.
Caledonia Investments has a net margin of 75.54% compared to Caledonia Investments' net margin of 0.00%. Worldwide Healthcare's return on equity of 4.47% beat Caledonia Investments' return on equity.
Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its stock price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Caledonia Investments and Caledonia Investments both had 3 articles in the media. Caledonia Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.34 beat Worldwide Healthcare's score of -0.55 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Caledonia Investments has higher revenue and earnings than Worldwide Healthcare. Worldwide Healthcare is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Caledonia Investments, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Caledonia Investments beats Worldwide Healthcare on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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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