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.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and NEXT (LON:NXT) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their community ranking, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, profitability, institutional ownership, media sentiment and valuation.
31.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 71.8% of NEXT shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 6.9% of NEXT shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.56, meaning that its stock price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXT has a beta of 1.27, meaning that its stock price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500.
JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 487, indicating a potential upside of 320.92%. NEXT has a consensus price target of GBX 6,637.50, indicating a potential downside of 27.04%. Given JD Sports Fashion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
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. NEXT's average media sentiment score of 0.10 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of -0.15 indicating that NEXT is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
NEXT has a net margin of 14.61% compared to JD Sports Fashion's net margin of 1.89%. NEXT's return on equity of 57.10% beat JD Sports Fashion's return on equity.
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.
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.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 207 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.3%. 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 and NEXT tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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