We study some potential theoretic properties of homothetic solitons Σ n of the MCF and the IMCF. Using the analysis of the extrinsic distance function defined on these submanifolds in R n+m , we observe similarities and differences in the geometry of solitons in both flows. In particular, we show that parabolic MCF-solitons Σ n with n > 2 are self-shrinkers and that parabolic IMCF-solitons of any dimension are self-expanders. We have studied too the geometric behavior of parabolic MCF and IMCF-solitons confined in a ball, the behavior of the Mean Exit Time function for the Brownian motion defined on Σ as well as a classification of properly immersed MCF-self-shrinkers with bounded second fundamental form, following the lines of [3].