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
Balfour Beatty (LON:BBY) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both mid-cap retail companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, valuation, risk and earnings.
Balfour Beatty currently has a consensus price target of GBX 655, indicating a potential upside of 14.11%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 100.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.21%. Given Balfour Beatty's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Balfour Beatty is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 3 more articles in the media than Balfour Beatty. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 5 mentions for Balfour Beatty. Balfour Beatty's average media sentiment score of 0.75 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.25 indicating that Balfour Beatty is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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.
Balfour Beatty pays an annual dividend of GBX 12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.1%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. 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.
Balfour Beatty has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats Balfour Beatty on 9 of the 17 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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This page (LON:BBY) was last updated on 8/20/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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