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Mothercare (MTC) Competitors

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As of 04/25/2025 08:00 AM Eastern

MTC vs. SST, SMRT, ADAM, INTU, CTG, INFA, API, VNET, RTC, and TEAM

Should you be buying Mothercare stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Mothercare include Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (SST), Smartspace Software (SMRT), Jade Road Investments (ADAM), Intu Properties (INTU), Christie Group (CTG), InfraStrata (INFA), abrdn Property Income Trust (API), Vianet Group (VNET), RTC Group (RTC), and TEAM (TEAM). These companies are all part of the "computer software" industry.

Mothercare vs.

Mothercare (LON:MTC) and Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos (LON:SST) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, earnings, dividends, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, profitability and media sentiment.

Mothercare received 290 more outperform votes than Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 70.63% of users gave Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos an outperform vote while only 62.66% of users gave Mothercare an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
MothercareOutperform Votes
391
62.66%
Underperform Votes
233
37.34%
Scottish Oriental Smaller CosOutperform Votes
101
70.63%
Underperform Votes
42
29.37%

In the previous week, Mothercare's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos'average media sentiment score.

Company Overall Sentiment
Mothercare Neutral
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos Neutral

Mothercare has a beta of 1.15, indicating that its share price is 15% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a beta of 0.37, indicating that its share price is 63% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has a net margin of 77.82% compared to Mothercare's net margin of 1.89%. Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos' return on equity of 28.42% beat Mothercare's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Mothercare1.89% N/A 16.19%
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos 77.82%28.42%8.03%

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has higher revenue and earnings than Mothercare.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Mothercare£63.60M0.20£1.20MN/AN/A
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos£78.23M0.85£60.88M£261.691.09

38.3% of Mothercare shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.2% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are owned by institutional investors. 44.6% of Mothercare shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 8.5% of Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos beats Mothercare on 7 of the 12 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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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MTC vs. The Competition

MetricMothercareSpecialty Retail IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£12.52M£3.09B£3.22B£2.56B
Dividend Yield1.18%4.38%3.48%4.84%
P/E Ratio223.0021.9420.45132.22
Price / Sales0.2031.9158.95241,113.66
Price / Cash4.8014.8031.0228.31
Price / Book-1.1112.033.324.53
Net Income£1.20M£134.10M£261.22M£5.86B
7 Day Performance-14.62%2.03%1.94%8.60%
1 Month Performance-11.16%2.06%-1.55%6.36%
1 Year Performance-63.00%17,563.87%1,676.72%103.29%

Mothercare Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MTC
Mothercare
N/AGBX 2.22
-10.5%
N/A-61.4%£12.52M£63.60M223.00149Gap Down
SST
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos
N/AGBX 275.60
-0.9%
N/A-78.5%£64.14M£78.23M1.05320Dividend Increase
SMRT
Smartspace Software
N/AN/AN/AN/A£26.05M£5.43M-1,500.00640
ADAM
Jade Road Investments
N/AN/AN/AN/A£25.17MN/A-7.21N/A
INTU
Intu Properties
N/AN/AN/AN/A£24.07M£548.50M-0.0117,300Gap Down
High Trading Volume
CTG
Christie Group
N/AGBX 84.50
-3.4%
N/A-5.4%£22.42M£68.04M-650.003,450Gap Down
INFA
InfraStrata
N/AN/AN/AN/A£22.06M£6.13M-0.755,500
API
abrdn Property Income Trust
N/AGBX 5.69
+2.3%
N/A-88.0%£21.68M£33.03M-0.971,310Gap Down
VNET
Vianet Group
N/AGBX 57.15
+1.2%
N/A-46.6%£16.63M£14.99M21.033,220News Coverage
Gap Down
RTC
RTC Group
N/AGBX 91.55
-1.0%
N/A+13.3%£11.85M£90.27M6.45361
TEAM
TEAM
N/AGBX 15.31
-4.3%
N/A+51.4%£7.94M£13.63M-4.6987News Coverage
Gap Up

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This page (LON:MTC) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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