SCT vs. MIDW, NAR, WISE, AVV, AVST, DARK, SOPH, SXS, CCC, and NETW
Should you be buying Softcat stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Softcat include Midwich Group (MIDW), Northamber (NAR), Wise (WISE), AVEVA Group (AVV), Avast (AVST), Darktrace (DARK), Sophos Group plc (SOPH.L) (SOPH), Spectris (SXS), Computacenter (CCC), and Network International (NETW). These companies are all part of the "computer and technology" sector.
Softcat vs.
Midwich Group (LON:MIDW) and Softcat (LON:SCT) are both computer and technology companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk, earnings, valuation, institutional ownership and media sentiment.
Midwich Group has a beta of 0.66, indicating that its share price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Softcat has a beta of 0.71, indicating that its share price is 29% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Midwich Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 17 per share and has a dividend yield of 6.9%. Softcat pays an annual dividend of GBX 26 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Midwich Group pays out 75.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Softcat pays out 43.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.
In the previous week, Softcat had 2 more articles in the media than Midwich Group. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for Softcat and 1 mentions for Midwich Group. Midwich Group's average media sentiment score of 0.25 beat Softcat's score of 0.20 indicating that Midwich Group is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Softcat has a net margin of 12.37% compared to Midwich Group's net margin of 1.70%. Softcat's return on equity of 43.79% beat Midwich Group's return on equity.
Softcat has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Midwich Group. Midwich Group is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Softcat, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Midwich Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 620, indicating a potential upside of 152.42%. Softcat has a consensus price target of GBX 1,446.67, indicating a potential downside of 5.75%. Given Midwich Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Midwich Group is more favorable than Softcat.
55.8% of Midwich Group shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 45.1% of Softcat shares are held by institutional investors. 26.2% of Midwich Group shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 43.6% of Softcat shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Softcat received 186 more outperform votes than Midwich Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 73.55% of users gave Midwich Group an outperform vote while only 70.75% of users gave Softcat an outperform vote.
Summary
Softcat beats Midwich Group on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:SCT) was last updated on 3/10/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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