JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD - Get Free Report) has been assigned an average recommendation of "Hold" from the eight analysts that are presently covering the stock, MarketBeat.com reports. Six investment analysts have rated the stock with a hold recommendation and two have issued a buy recommendation on the company. The average twelve-month price objective among brokers that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 110.88.
A number of equities analysts have issued reports on the stock. Shore Capital Group cut shares of JD Sports Fashion to a "hold" rating and cut their target price for the stock from GBX 81 to GBX 75 in a research report on Friday, October 2nd. JPMorgan Chase & Co. lowered their price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion from GBX 90 to GBX 86 and set a "neutral" rating on the stock in a research report on Friday, August 21st. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reissued a "hold" rating and set a GBX 95 price objective on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Thursday, September 3rd. Berenberg Bank restated a "buy" rating and set a GBX 150 price objective on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research report on Thursday, September 24th. Finally, Citigroup upped their target price on JD Sports Fashion from GBX 83 to GBX 87 and gave the company a "neutral" rating in a research note on Friday, August 21st.
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JD Sports Fashion Stock Performance
JD Sports Fashion stock opened at GBX 91.94 on Friday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 133.23, a current ratio of 1.42 and a quick ratio of 0.71. The firm has a market capitalization of £4.76 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 919.40, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.65. The firm has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 83.54 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 81.14.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD - Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, September 23rd. The company reported GBX 3.97 earnings per share for the quarter. JD Sports Fashion had a return on equity of 14.97% and a net margin of 3.17%. As a group, sell-side analysts forecast that JD Sports Fashion will post 15.04 EPS for the current fiscal year.
Insider Buying and Selling at JD Sports Fashion
In related news, insider Peter Agnefjäl acquired 320,000 shares of JD Sports Fashion stock in a transaction dated Friday, September 25th. The shares were acquired at an average cost of GBX 77 per share, for a total transaction of £246,400. 51.91% of the stock is currently owned by company insiders.
JD Sports Fashion Company Profile
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JD Sports Fashion plc engages in the retail of branded sports fashion and outdoor clothing, footwear, accessories, and equipment for kids, women, and men. It operates through Sports Fashion and Outdoor segments. The company also retails leisure goods, sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats, and bicycles, as well as distributes sports apparel and accessories, footwear, and apparel. It offers its products under the JD, Size?, Footpatrol, Finish Line, Shoe Palace, DTLR, Livestock, Sprinter, Sport Zone, Sizeer, JD Gyms, Tessuti, Scotts, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, Fishing Republic, and Naylors brands.
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