CLDN vs. WWH, BPT, MRC, TEM, JAM, HVPE, PNL, FEV, CTY, and WTAN
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), 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.
Worldwide Healthcare (LON:WWH) and Caledonia Investments (LON:CLDN) are both small-cap financial services companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, valuation, risk, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, community ranking, analyst recommendations and earnings.
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 2.0%. 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.
73.6% 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Worldwide Healthcare and Worldwide Healthcare 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 media.
Worldwide Healthcare has a beta of 0.29, indicating that its share price is 71% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Caledonia Investments has a beta of 0.77, indicating that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
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.
Summary
Caledonia Investments beats Worldwide Healthcare on 12 of the 16 factors compared between the two stocks.
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