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McBride (MCB) Competitors

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GBX 159 +0.60 (+0.38%)
As of 07/11/2025 12:47 PM Eastern

MCB vs. DFS, SHG, FIF, IES, RM, SBSI, CFX, OFG, FCAP, and OBT

Should you be buying McBride stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of McBride include DFS Furniture (DFS), Shanta Gold (SHG), Finsbury Food Group (FIF), Invinity Energy Systems (IES), RM (RM), Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust (SBSI), Colefax Group (CFX), Octopus Future Generations VCT (OFG), Cavendish Financial (FCAP), and Obtala (OBT). These companies are all part of the "banking" industry.

McBride vs. Its Competitors

McBride (LON:MCB) and DFS Furniture (LON:DFS) are both small-cap banking companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and dividends.

McBride pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.6%. DFS Furniture pays an annual dividend of GBX 4 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.4%. McBride pays out 5.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. DFS Furniture pays out -214.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. DFS Furniture is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

DFS Furniture has a consensus price target of GBX 233, suggesting a potential upside of 40.79%. Given DFS Furniture's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe DFS Furniture is more favorable than McBride.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
McBride
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00
DFS Furniture
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

McBride has a beta of 1.17, indicating that its stock price is 17% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, DFS Furniture has a beta of 1.58, indicating that its stock price is 58% more volatile than the S&P 500.

McBride has a net margin of 3.56% compared to DFS Furniture's net margin of -0.45%. McBride's return on equity of 62.24% beat DFS Furniture's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
McBride3.56% 62.24% 8.54%
DFS Furniture -0.45%-1.90%3.00%

McBride has higher earnings, but lower revenue than DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than McBride, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
McBride£930.83M0.29£33.16M£19.578.12
DFS Furniture£964.48M0.40-£4.30M-£1.87-88.62

72.7% of McBride shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of DFS Furniture shares are held by institutional investors. 5.8% of McBride shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 11.7% of DFS Furniture shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

In the previous week, McBride had 16 more articles in the media than DFS Furniture. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for McBride and 1 mentions for DFS Furniture. DFS Furniture's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat McBride's score of -0.08 indicating that DFS Furniture is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
McBride
1 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
6 Neutral mention(s)
4 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
DFS Furniture
0 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Summary

DFS Furniture beats McBride on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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MCB vs. The Competition

MetricMcBrideHousehold & Personal Products IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£272.56M£15.08B£6.90B£3.00B
Dividend Yield1.40%2.41%3.16%5.02%
P/E Ratio8.1218.2213.14150.83
Price / Sales0.29378.8496.92314,599.98
Price / Cash7.6917.16144.7427.97
Price / Book4.323.044.264.58
Net Income£33.16M£912.33M£999.43M£5.90B
7 Day Performance3.92%-0.02%-0.42%11.51%
1 Month Performance9.66%-4.04%-1.38%7.92%
1 Year Performance14.39%110.85%67.04%32.01%

McBride Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
MCB
McBride
N/AGBX 159
+0.4%
N/A+12.8%£272.56M£930.83M8.12240
DFS
DFS Furniture
2.7622 of 5 stars
GBX 162.50
-0.9%
GBX 233
+43.4%
+44.2%£374.47M£964.48M-87.0120,200
SHG
Shanta Gold
N/AN/AN/AN/A£154.98M£150.50M1,476.00190High Trading Volume
FIF
Finsbury Food Group
N/AN/AN/AN/A£143.42M£413.74M1,375.00206
IES
Invinity Energy Systems
2.5142 of 5 stars
GBX 23.30
-1.9%
GBX 40
+71.7%
+22.6%£101.91M£15.88M-2.68140News Coverage
RM
RM
N/AGBX 94.50
+1.1%
N/A+10.3%£79.82M£189.50M-1.721,990High Trading Volume
SBSI
Schroder BSC Social Impact Trust
N/AGBX 78.50
flat
N/A-7.8%£64.65M£2.21M62.41810Positive News
High Trading Volume
CFX
Colefax Group
N/AGBX 777.99
-0.3%
N/A-14.9%£45.57M£101.60M8.3055,900
OFG
Octopus Future Generations VCT
N/AGBX 84.50
flat
N/AN/A£34.75MN/A0.002,250High Trading Volume
FCAP
Cavendish Financial
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.61M£32.15M-263.33220Gap Down
OBT
Obtala
N/AN/AN/AN/A£28.50M£14.89M-1.86210Gap Down

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This page (LON:MCB) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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