NXT vs. JD, IHG, SKG, WTB, ENT, PINE, MKS, BKG, HWDN, and SMDS
Should you be buying NEXT stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of NEXT include JD Sports Fashion (JD), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Whitbread (WTB), Entain (ENT), Pinewood Technologies Group (PINE), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), Howden Joinery Group (HWDN), and DS Smith (SMDS). 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 better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, risk, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings and profitability.
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 hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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 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.
NEXT presently has a consensus price target of GBX 6,637.50, indicating a potential downside of 26.59%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 487, indicating a potential upside of 305.33%. Given JD Sports Fashion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
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 0.8%. 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 a beta of 1.27, indicating that its share price is 27% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.56, indicating that its share price is 56% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, NEXT had 13 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 24 mentions for NEXT and 11 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat NEXT's score of 0.22 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats NEXT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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