NXT vs. JD, SHOE, BUMP, QUIZ, CPG, FLTR, IHG, SKG, MKS, and BKG
Should you be buying NEXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NEXT include JD Sports Fashion (JD), Shoe Zone (SHOE), Seraphine Group (BUMP), QUIZ (QUIZ), Compass Group (CPG), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), and The Berkeley Group (BKG). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and NEXT (LON:NXT) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends and community ranking.
JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 487, indicating a potential upside of 281.96%. NEXT has a consensus target price of GBX 6,683.33, indicating a potential downside of 28.43%. Given NEXT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts plainly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXT has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JD Sports Fashion received 5 more outperform votes than NEXT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.46% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 50.22% of users gave NEXT an outperform vote.
NEXT has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
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.
33.2% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of NEXT shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of NEXT shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion and JD Sports Fashion both had 11 articles in the media. NEXT's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.36 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 207 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. 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. 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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats NEXT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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