BBY vs. JD, SIG, RS1, PAG, HSTG, PETS, COST, ELA, 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), Costain Group (COST), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), 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 superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, risk, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, dividends and profitability.
JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 204.50, suggesting a potential upside of 129.62%. Balfour Beatty has a consensus target price of GBX 542.50, suggesting a potential upside of 0.50%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Balfour Beatty.
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 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. 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 28.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Balfour Beatty is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 1 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 2 mentions for Balfour Beatty. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.63 beat Balfour Beatty's score of 0.34 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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.
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.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 61.7% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Balfour Beatty shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats Balfour Beatty on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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Media Sentiment Over Time
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This page (LON:BBY) was last updated on 7/30/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
