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.
In the previous week, Mothercare's average media sentiment score of 0.00 equaled Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos'average media sentiment score.
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.
Scottish Oriental Smaller Cos has higher revenue and earnings than Mothercare.
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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This page (LON:MTC) was last updated on 4/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff