CLDN vs. WWH, BPT, CTY, MRC, HVPE, TEM, JAM, HGT, SSON, and PNL
Should you be buying Caledonia Investments stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Caledonia Investments include Worldwide Healthcare (WWH), Bridgepoint Group (BPT), City of London (CTY), Mercantile (MRC), HarbourVest Global Private Equity (HVPE), Templeton Emerging Mkts Invmt Tr TEMIT (TEM), JPMorgan American (JAM), HgCapital Trust (HGT), Smithson Investment Trust (SSON), and Personal Assets Trust (PNL). These companies are all part of the "asset management" industry.
Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) and Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, risk, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, institutional ownership and profitability.
73.0% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 11.6% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by institutional investors. 0.4% of Worldwide Healthcare shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 40.0% of Caledonia Investments shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 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.
Worldwide Healthcare pays an annual dividend of GBX 3 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. Caledonia Investments pays an annual dividend of GBX 68 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Worldwide Healthcare pays out -2,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 has a beta of 0.29, suggesting that its stock price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.79, suggesting that its stock price is 21% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare had 8 more articles in the media than Caledonia Investments. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Worldwide Healthcare and 1 mentions for Caledonia Investments. Caledonia Investments' average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Worldwide Healthcare's score of -0.54 indicating that Worldwide Healthcare is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
Summary
Caledonia Investments beats Worldwide Healthcare on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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