PETS vs. JD, SIG, RS1, BBY, PAG, HSTG, COST, ELA, BOOT, and BIG
Should you be buying Pets at Home Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Pets at Home Group include JD Sports Fashion (JD), Signature Aviation (SIG), RS Group (RS1), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Costain Group (COST), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Henry Boot (BOOT), and Big Technologies (BIG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Pets at Home Group vs. Its Competitors
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and Pets at Home Group (LON:PETS) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, risk and institutional ownership.
Pets at Home Group has a net margin of 5.36% compared to JD Sports Fashion's net margin of 3.17%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 14.97% beat Pets at Home Group's return on equity.
JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than Pets at Home Group. Pets at Home Group 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 beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Pets at Home Group has a beta of 0.69, meaning that its stock price is 31% less volatile than the S&P 500.
JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.61%. Pets at Home Group has a consensus target price of GBX 298.33, suggesting a potential upside of 20.39%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Pets at Home Group.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 1 more articles in the media than Pets at Home Group. MarketBeat recorded 2 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 1 mentions for Pets at Home Group. Pets at Home Group's average media sentiment score of 0.67 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.43 indicating that Pets at Home Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Pets at Home Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.2%. 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. Pets at Home Group pays out 79.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Pets at Home Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Pets at Home Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats Pets at Home Group on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:PETS) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
