RS1 vs. JD, SIG, BBY, PAG, HSTG, PETS, ELA, COST, BIG, and BOOT
Should you be buying RS Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of RS Group include JD Sports Fashion (JD), Signature Aviation (SIG), 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), Big Technologies (BIG), and Henry Boot (BOOT). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
RS Group vs.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and RS Group (LON:RS1) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, valuation, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, media sentiment, dividends, profitability and analyst recommendations.
JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 31.74%. RS Group has a consensus price target of GBX 840, suggesting a potential upside of 47.89%. Given RS Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe RS Group is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 3 more articles in the media than RS Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 4 mentions for RS Group. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.56 beat RS Group's score of 0.27 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.9%. 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. RS Group pays out 56.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of RS Group shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of RS Group shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
RS Group has a net margin of 6.24% compared to JD Sports Fashion's net margin of 3.17%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 14.97% beat RS Group's return on equity.
JD Sports Fashion received 561 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 79.97% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 45.16% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RS Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its share price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than RS Group. RS 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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats RS Group on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RS1) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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