Worldwide Healthcare (WWH) Competitors

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

Is HL or WWH a better dividend stock?

Hargreaves Lansdown pays an annual dividend of GBX 43 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 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 7.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

Does the MarketBeat Community favor HL or WWH?

Hargreaves Lansdown received 335 more outperform votes than Worldwide Healthcare when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.29% of users gave Worldwide Healthcare an outperform vote while only 47.88% of users gave Hargreaves Lansdown an outperform vote.

Company	Underperform	Outperform
Hargreaves Lansdown	Outperform Votes 407 47.88%	Underperform Votes 443 52.12%
Worldwide Healthcare	Outperform Votes 72 67.29%	Underperform Votes 35 32.71%

Do analysts rate HL or WWH?

Hargreaves Lansdown currently has a consensus target price of GBX 1,104, suggesting a potential downside of 0.41%. Given Hargreaves Lansdown's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Hargreaves Lansdown is more favorable than Worldwide Healthcare.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Hargreaves Lansdown	1 Sell rating(s)	1 Hold rating(s)	3 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.40
Worldwide Healthcare	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk & volatility, HL or WWH?

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.

Which has better valuation & earnings, HL or WWH?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Hargreaves Lansdown	£764.90M	6.87	£293.20M	£0.62	1,787.90
Worldwide Healthcare	£245.62M	5.94	£227.88M	£42.96	6.38

Is HL or WWH more profitable?

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 Lansdown	82.61%	82.68%	17.10%
Worldwide Healthcare	92.78%	11.22%	-2.02%

Does the media prefer HL or WWH?

In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 5 more articles in the media than Hargreaves Lansdown. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 0 mentions for Hargreaves Lansdown. Worldwide Healthcare's average media sentiment score of 0.57 beat Hargreaves Lansdown's score of 0.00 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company	Overall Sentiment
Hargreaves Lansdown	Neutral
Worldwide Healthcare	Positive

Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in HL or WWH?

66.7% of Hargreaves Lansdown shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 73.6% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are owned by institutional investors. 29.4% of Hargreaves Lansdown 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 stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Hargreaves Lansdown beats Worldwide Healthcare on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.