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Balfour Beatty (BBY) Competitors

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GBX 461.80 +4.20 (+0.92%)
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BBY vs. JD, SIG, RS1, HSTG, PAG, PETS, ELA, BOOT, COST, and BIG

Should you be buying Balfour Beatty stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Balfour Beatty include JD Sports Fashion (JD), Signature Aviation (SIG), RS Group (RS1), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Henry Boot (BOOT), Costain Group (COST), and Big Technologies (BIG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Balfour Beatty vs.

Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, risk, profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation and analyst recommendations.

61.7% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Balfour Beatty currently has a consensus price target of GBX 542.50, indicating a potential upside of 17.48%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 109.50, indicating a potential upside of 39.35%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Balfour Beatty
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00
JD Sports Fashion
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20

Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Balfour Beatty pays out 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. JD Sports Fashion pays out 1,000.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Balfour Beatty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

JD Sports Fashion has a net margin of 3.17% compared to Balfour Beatty's net margin of 2.85%. Balfour Beatty's return on equity of 19.46% beat JD Sports Fashion's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Balfour Beatty2.85% 19.46% 1.63%
JD Sports Fashion 3.17%14.97%7.05%

In the previous week, Balfour Beatty and Balfour Beatty both had 2 articles in the media. Balfour Beatty's average media sentiment score of 0.19 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.15 indicating that Balfour Beatty is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Balfour Beatty
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
JD Sports Fashion
0 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Balfour Beatty received 75 more outperform votes than JD Sports Fashion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.92% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 65.52% of users gave Balfour Beatty an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Balfour BeattyOutperform Votes
648
65.52%
Underperform Votes
341
34.48%
JD Sports FashionOutperform Votes
573
79.92%
Underperform Votes
144
20.08%

JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than Balfour Beatty. Balfour Beatty 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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Balfour Beatty£7.72B0.31£219.98M£42.8310.78
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.38£342.20M£0.10785.80

Summary

JD Sports Fashion beats Balfour Beatty on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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BBY vs. The Competition

MetricBalfour BeattyEngineering & Construction IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.36B£2.34B£7.20B£2.56B
Dividend Yield2.51%3.02%3.56%4.97%
P/E Ratio10.7828.2221.02132.50
Price / Sales0.3133.5381.76227,865.53
Price / Cash1.9514.6126.9028.11
Price / Book2.092.553.754.54
Net Income£219.98M£82.90M£808.20M£5.84B
7 Day Performance5.29%2.61%4.07%3.31%
1 Month Performance5.87%3.48%2.73%9.43%
1 Year Performance25.49%83.78%15.20%114.47%

Balfour Beatty Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BBY
Balfour Beatty
2.2055 of 5 stars
GBX 461.80
+0.9%
GBX 542.50
+17.5%
+25.8%£2.36B£7.72B10.78105,000News Coverage
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.6194 of 5 stars
GBX 75
+2.7%
GBX 109.50
+46.0%
-30.8%£3.89B£10.79B750.00385,400High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900News Coverage
RS1
RS Group
2.6806 of 5 stars
GBX 489.60
-1.6%
GBX 840
+71.6%
-30.1%£2.31B£2.91B12.656,500News Coverage
HSTG
Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£763.70M19.053,372High Trading Volume
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
3.0302 of 5 stars
GBX 797.50
-0.1%
GBX 875
+9.7%
+17.8%£1.60B£738.64M8.6126,500Dividend Increase
Positive News
PETS
Pets at Home Group
2.6119 of 5 stars
GBX 232.60
-0.5%
GBX 298.33
+28.3%
-19.0%£1.06B£1.41B14.14210
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 214
+0.9%
N/A+16.6%£287.56M£286.51M25.458,400Insider Trade
News Coverage
COST
Costain Group
0.7584 of 5 stars
GBX 104.40
+0.4%
GBX 105
+0.6%
+32.5%£279.63M£1.28B9.323,270
BIG
Big Technologies
N/AGBX 73
-8.5%
N/A-48.7%£207.35M£53.85M16.3536,200Gap Up

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