JD vs. NXT, SHOE, BUMP, QUIZ, FLTR, IHG, SKG, MKS, BKG, and WTB
Should you be buying JD Sports Fashion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD Sports Fashion include NEXT (NXT), Shoe Zone (SHOE), Seraphine Group (BUMP), QUIZ (QUIZ), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), and Whitbread (WTB). 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 business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, community ranking, valuation, profitability, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 207 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.8%. 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.
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.
NEXT currently has a consensus target price of GBX 6,683.33, suggesting a potential downside of 29.34%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus target price of GBX 487, suggesting a potential upside of 281.96%. Given NEXT's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
70.7% of NEXT shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.2% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. 7.1% of NEXT shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
NEXT has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its stock price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NEXT and NEXT both had 11 articles in the media. NEXT's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.34 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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 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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats NEXT on 11 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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