IGR vs. MTC, PODP, CARD, HFD, MOTR, WJG, SHOE, SPR, GMR, and CHH
Should you be buying IG Design Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of IG Design Group include Mothercare (MTC), Pod Point Group (PODP), Card Factory (CARD), Halfords Group (HFD), Motorpoint Group (MOTR), Watkin Jones (WJG), Shoe Zone (SHOE), Springfield Properties (SPR), Gaming Realms (GMR), and Churchill China (CHH). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
IG Design Group (LON:IGR) and Mothercare (LON:MTC) are both small-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, profitability, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, valuation and risk.
IG Design Group has a beta of 1.17, suggesting that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Mothercare has a beta of 1.21, suggesting that its stock price is 21% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Mothercare has lower revenue, but higher earnings than IG Design Group.
Mothercare has a net margin of 1.89% compared to IG Design Group's net margin of -3.30%. Mothercare's return on equity of 0.00% beat IG Design Group's return on equity.
58.8% of IG Design Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 38.2% of Mothercare shares are owned by institutional investors. 28.0% of IG Design Group shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 46.6% of Mothercare shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Mothercare received 193 more outperform votes than IG Design Group when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 66.00% of users gave IG Design Group an outperform vote while only 62.66% of users gave Mothercare an outperform vote.
IG Design Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 270, indicating a potential upside of 134.78%. Given IG Design Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe IG Design Group is more favorable than Mothercare.
In the previous week, IG Design Group had 1 more articles in the media than Mothercare. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for IG Design Group and 1 mentions for Mothercare. Mothercare's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat IG Design Group's score of 0.30 indicating that Mothercare is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Mothercare beats IG Design Group on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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