Wolters Kluwer (OTCMKTS:WOLTF – Get Free Report) and Viad (NYSE:VVI – Get Free Report) are both industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, risk, earnings, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation and profitability.
Dividends
Wolters Kluwer pays an annual dividend of $0.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.5%. Viad pays an annual dividend of $0.40 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.4%. Wolters Kluwer pays out 46.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Viad pays out 166.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Wolters Kluwer and Viad’s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | Net Income | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Wolters Kluwer | N/A | N/A | N/A | $1.28 | 97.77 |
| Viad | $1.21 billion | 0.51 | $23.22 million | $0.24 | 123.42 |
Insider and Institutional Ownership
46.8% of Wolters Kluwer shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 91.4% of Viad shares are owned by institutional investors. 3.2% of Viad shares are owned 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.
Profitability
This table compares Wolters Kluwer and Viad’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Wolters Kluwer | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Viad | 1.68% | 2.70% | 0.22% |
Analyst Ratings
This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for Wolters Kluwer and Viad, as reported by MarketBeat.com.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Wolters Kluwer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
| Viad | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3.00 |
Viad has a consensus target price of $39.67, indicating a potential upside of 33.92%. Given Viad’s higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Viad is more favorable than Wolters Kluwer.
Summary
Viad beats Wolters Kluwer on 10 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Wolters Kluwer
Wolters Kluwer N.V. provides professional information, software solutions, and services in the Netherlands, rest of Europe, the United States, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Health; Tax & Accounting; Governance, Risk & Compliance; and Legal & Regulatory. The Health segment offers clinical technology and evidence-based solutions that drive effective decision-making and improved outcomes across healthcare. It provides solutions for hospitals, clinics, other healthcare providers, individual clinicians and students, nursing and medical schools and libraries, retail pharmacies, payers, and life sciences organizations. The Tax & Accounting segment offers solutions that help tax, accounting, and audit professionals to drive productivity, navigate change, and deliver better outcomes. It provides solutions for accounting firms, corporate finance, tax and auditing departments, government agencies, libraries, and universities. The Governance, Risk & Compliance segment offers technology-enabled services and solutions for legal entity compliance, legal operations management, banking product compliance, and regulatory reporting. It serves legal, compliance, and risk professionals in corporations, small businesses, law firms, insurers, banks, non-bank lenders, credit unions, leasing companies, and securities firms. The Legal & Regulatory segment provides evidence-based information, actionable insights, and integrated workflow solutions that help customers to make the right decisions and streamline compliance. It enables legal and compliance professionals, and operational risk managers, as well as environmental, health, and safety managers to improve productivity and performance, mitigate risk, and solve complex problems with confidence in law firms, corporations, universities, and government agencies. Wolters Kluwer N.V. was founded in 1836 and is based in Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands.
About Viad
Viad Corp operates as an experiential leisure travel, and live events and marketing services company in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, the United Arab Emirates, Netherlands, and Iceland. It operates through Pursuit, Spiro, and GES Exhibitions segments. The Pursuit segment offers vertically integrated attractions and hospitality in destinations with a collection of attractions, lodges, and sightseeing tours. The GES Exhibition operates as an exhibition services company that partners with exhibition and conference organizers as a full-service provider of strategic and logistics solutions to manage the complexity of their shows. The Spiro operates experiential marketing agency that partners with brands around the world to manage and elevate their global experiential marketing activities. In addition, the company offers a collection of travel experiences in recreational attractions, food and beverage, retail, and ground transportation services. It serves event organizers and corporate brand marketers directly, as well as through a distribution channel network that include tour operators, tour wholesalers, destination management companies, and retail travel agencies. Viad Corp was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
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