RS1 vs. JD, SIG, BBY, PAG, HSTG, PETS, COST, ELA, BOOT, and BIG
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), Costain Group (COST), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Henry Boot (BOOT), and Big Technologies (BIG). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
RS Group vs. Its Competitors
RS Group (LON:RS1) 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 valuation, profitability, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and risk.
RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. RS Group pays out 56.9% 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. RS Group is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
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.
RS Group presently has a consensus price target of GBX 810, suggesting a potential upside of 39.41%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.61%. Given RS Group's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe RS Group is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.
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.
In the previous week, RS Group had 9 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 11 mentions for RS Group and 2 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.43 beat RS Group's score of 0.09 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
78.1% of RS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of RS Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
RS Group has a beta of 0.86, indicating that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, indicating that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
RS Group beats JD Sports Fashion on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RS1) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
