JD vs. NXT, WTB, PINE, MKS, ENT, BKG, SMDS, HWDN, TW, and KGF
Should you be buying JD Sports Fashion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD Sports Fashion include NEXT (NXT), Whitbread (WTB), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), Entain (ENT), The Berkeley Group (BKG), DS Smith (SMDS), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), Taylor Wimpey (TW), and Kingfisher (KGF). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
NEXT (LON:NXT) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
NEXT has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
NEXT has a net margin of 14.61% compared to NEXT's net margin of 1.89%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 57.10% beat NEXT's return on equity.
NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 207 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. NEXT pays out 3,155.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. JD Sports Fashion pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, NEXT had 30 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 31 mentions for NEXT and 1 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.15 beat NEXT's score of 0.02 indicating that NEXT is being referred to more favorably in the media.
NEXT has higher earnings, but lower revenue than JD Sports Fashion. NEXT is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than JD Sports Fashion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JD Sports Fashion received 4 more outperform votes than NEXT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.54% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 50.22% of users gave NEXT an outperform vote.
71.8% of NEXT shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 31.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. 6.9% of NEXT shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
NEXT currently has a consensus target price of GBX 6,637.50, suggesting a potential downside of 26.07%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus target price of GBX 487, suggesting a potential upside of 334.24%. Given NEXT's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
Summary
NEXT and JD Sports Fashion tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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