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JD Sports Fashion (JD) Competitors

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GBX 84.30 -0.12 (-0.14%)
As of 08/4/2025

JD vs. SIG, BBY, RS1, PAG, HSTG, PETS, COST, ELA, BOOT, and BIG

Should you be buying JD Sports Fashion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD Sports Fashion include Signature Aviation (SIG), Balfour Beatty (BBY), 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.

JD Sports Fashion vs. Its Competitors

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

JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 203.75, suggesting a potential upside of 141.70%. Given JD Sports Fashion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Signature Aviation.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Signature Aviation
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
0.00

In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 5 more articles in the media than Signature Aviation. MarketBeat recorded 5 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 0 mentions for Signature Aviation. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.87 beat Signature Aviation's score of 0.00 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Overall Sentiment
JD Sports Fashion Positive
Signature Aviation Neutral

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

JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than Signature Aviation. Signature Aviation 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
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.40£342.20M£0.10843.00
Signature Aviation£1.41B0.00N/A-£0.80N/A

JD Sports Fashion has a net margin of 3.17% compared to Signature Aviation's net margin of 0.00%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 14.97% beat Signature Aviation's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
Signature Aviation N/A N/A N/A

Summary

JD Sports Fashion beats Signature Aviation on 13 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding JD and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
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Media Sentiment Over Time

This chart shows the average media sentiment of LON and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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JD vs. The Competition

MetricJD Sports FashionApparel Retail IndustryCyclical SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£4.37B£5.52B£3.45B£3.06B
Dividend Yield0.67%3.04%3.55%5.02%
P/E Ratio843.0059.8969.20171.66
Price / Sales0.4064.2370.60290,302.65
Price / Cash5.5727.2831.1627.97
Price / Book1.794.483.694.53
Net Income£342.20M£256.81M£264.31M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-7.22%4.17%-1.72%13.47%
1 Month Performance-6.37%2.44%-0.55%11.25%
1 Year Performance-31.88%28.61%35.98%76.96%

JD Sports Fashion Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.9024 of 5 stars
GBX 84.30
-0.1%
GBX 203.75
+141.7%
-31.8%£4.37B£10.79B843.00385,400High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900
BBY
Balfour Beatty
1.2742 of 5 stars
GBX 531.50
+0.1%
GBX 542.50
+2.1%
+35.8%£2.71B£7.72B12.41105,000
RS1
RS Group
3.0167 of 5 stars
GBX 565.50
-2.9%
GBX 810
+43.2%
-26.1%£2.67B£2.91B14.616,500
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
2.5244 of 5 stars
GBX 952
-0.8%
GBX 938
-1.5%
+20.5%£1.90B£738.64M10.2826,500Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
Gap Up
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
2.386 of 5 stars
GBX 244.20
+0.1%
GBX 298.33
+22.2%
-22.1%£1.11B£1.41B14.85210
COST
Costain Group
0.9553 of 5 stars
GBX 157.23
-0.5%
GBX 105
-33.2%
+90.7%£421.12M£1.28B14.043,270
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 226
-1.3%
N/A+1.8%£303.68M£286.51M26.888,400
BIG
Big Technologies
1.1072 of 5 stars
GBX 94
-0.6%
GBX 80
-14.9%
-32.7%£267.00M£53.85M21.0536,200

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This page (LON:JD) was last updated on 8/5/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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