JD vs. SIG, RS1, BBY, PAG, HSTG, PETS, ELA, COST, 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), RS Group (RS1), Balfour Beatty (BBY), 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.
JD Sports Fashion vs. Its Competitors
Signature Aviation (LON:SIG) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, community ranking, valuation, risk and analyst recommendations.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 2 more articles in the media than Signature Aviation. MarketBeat recorded 3 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 1 mentions for Signature Aviation. Signature Aviation's average media sentiment score of 0.70 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of -0.02 indicating that Signature Aviation is being referred to more favorably in the media.
33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 33.63%. Given JD Sports Fashion's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Signature Aviation.
JD Sports Fashion received 397 more outperform votes than Signature Aviation when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.97% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 69.26% of users gave Signature Aviation an outperform vote.
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.
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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats Signature Aviation on 14 of the 15 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.
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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This page (LON:JD) was last updated on 6/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
