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Balfour Beatty (BBY) Competitors

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GBX 616 +4.00 (+0.65%)
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BBY vs. JD, SIG, RS1, PAG, HSTG, PETS, ELA, COST, BOOT, 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), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Costain Group (COST), Henry Boot (BOOT), and Big Technologies (BIG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Balfour Beatty vs. Its Competitors

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

JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 103.17, indicating a potential upside of 10.46%. Balfour Beatty has a consensus target price of GBX 680, indicating a potential upside of 10.39%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion
0 Sell rating(s)
4 Hold rating(s)
3 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.43
Balfour Beatty
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

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
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
Balfour Beatty 2.85%19.46%1.63%

JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 0.13 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.0%. 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 pays out 35.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend.

33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 60.9% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.1% of Balfour Beatty shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

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

JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than Balfour Beatty. JD Sports Fashion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Balfour Beatty, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.45£342.20M£0.10934.00
Balfour Beatty£8.87B0.34£219.98M£0.351,745.04

In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 2 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 4 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 2 mentions for Balfour Beatty. Balfour Beatty's average media sentiment score of 0.80 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of -0.03 indicating that Balfour Beatty is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Summary

JD Sports Fashion beats Balfour Beatty on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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BBY vs. The Competition

MetricBalfour BeattyEngineering & Construction IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£3.04B£2.83B£7.73B£2.61B
Dividend Yield2.09%3.38%4.56%5.30%
P/E Ratio1,745.04343.72313.285,392.14
Price / Sales0.3472.93211.6296,536.34
Price / Cash1.9514.6128.7327.93
Price / Book2.792.894.507.73
Net Income£219.98M£82.90M£798.53M£5.89B
7 Day Performance3.79%1.94%1.32%1.16%
1 Month Performance11.20%0.99%3.86%55.53%
1 Year Performance48.65%53.19%27.23%135.62%

Balfour Beatty Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
BBY
Balfour Beatty
1.645 of 5 stars
GBX 616
+0.7%
GBX 680
+10.4%
+48.5%£3.04B£8.87B1,745.04105,000News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.4701 of 5 stars
GBX 96.70
+0.7%
GBX 105.17
+8.8%
-28.5%£5.01B£10.79B967.00385,400Analyst Forecast
High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900News Coverage
RS1
RS Group
2.5711 of 5 stars
GBX 555.50
-2.4%
GBX 810
+45.8%
-25.8%£2.60B£2.90B1,709.236,500Gap Up
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
3.4718 of 5 stars
GBX 861
-2.9%
GBX 991.50
+15.2%
+17.3%£1.66B£517.10M892.2326,500Dividend Increase
Gap Down
HSTG
Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£763.70M19.053,372High Trading Volume
PETS
Pets at Home Group
2.6109 of 5 stars
GBX 220.20
-2.4%
GBX 273.33
+24.1%
-25.8%£993.30M£1.48B1,171.28210News Coverage
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
COST
Costain Group
2.8843 of 5 stars
GBX 133
-1.5%
GBX 162.50
+22.2%
+22.5%£357.05M£1.14B1,198.203,270Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 220
-2.7%
N/A-3.7%£294.27M£328.38M1,294.128,400Gap Down
High Trading Volume
BIG
Big Technologies
0.1647 of 5 stars
GBX 91.60
+1.6%
GBX 80
-12.7%
-13.2%£265.90M£50.31M11,450.0036,200News Coverage
Gap Down

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