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RS Group (RS1) Competitors

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GBX 581 -12.50 (-2.11%)
As of 07/4/2025

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

JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and RS Group (LON:RS1) are both mid-cap retail companies, but which is the superior business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, media sentiment, dividends, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, earnings and risk.

JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus target price of GBX 109.50, suggesting a potential upside of 21.61%. RS Group has a consensus target price of GBX 810, suggesting a potential upside of 39.41%. Given RS Group's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe RS Group is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion
1 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.20
RS Group
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.43£342.20M£0.10900.40
RS Group£2.91B0.94£181.90M£38.7015.01

33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of RS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of RS Group shares are owned by company 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.

In the previous week, RS Group had 10 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 12 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 0.12 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
JD Sports Fashion
1 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
RS Group
3 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
3 Neutral mention(s)
2 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral

JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RS Group has a beta of 0.86, suggesting that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.

JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.8%. 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.

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
RS Group 6.24%12.99%6.58%

Summary

RS Group beats JD Sports Fashion on 9 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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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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RS1 vs. The Competition

MetricRS GroupIndustrial Distribution IndustryIndustrials SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£2.74B£4.40B£7.58B£2.96B
Dividend Yield3.38%4.76%4.53%5.02%
P/E Ratio15.0117.6525.01147.88
Price / Sales0.9458.20120.99258,917.23
Price / Cash11.5460.3627.4427.97
Price / Book1.932.004.364.61
Net Income£181.90M£222.68M£791.63M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.27%1.20%2.17%1.04%
1 Month Performance2.11%4.53%5.03%4.36%
1 Year Performance-20.08%4.19%31.99%82.36%

RS Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
RS1
RS Group
3.5621 of 5 stars
GBX 581
-2.1%
GBX 810
+39.4%
-20.1%£2.74B£2.91B15.016,500News Coverage
Insider Trade
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.0621 of 5 stars
GBX 88.74
+1.0%
GBX 109.50
+23.4%
-19.8%£4.60B£10.79B887.40385,400High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900
BBY
Balfour Beatty
1.3482 of 5 stars
GBX 520
-0.4%
GBX 542.50
+4.3%
+30.8%£2.65B£7.72B12.14105,000News Coverage
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
3.3448 of 5 stars
GBX 938.50
-0.5%
GBX 916.50
-2.3%
+22.5%£1.88B£738.64M10.1326,500Positive News
Dividend Increase
Analyst Forecast
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
2.5878 of 5 stars
GBX 260.40
-0.6%
GBX 298.33
+14.6%
-17.0%£1.19B£1.41B15.83210Positive News
COST
Costain Group
1.0346 of 5 stars
GBX 147.37
-0.6%
GBX 105
-28.8%
+66.4%£394.73M£1.28B13.163,270
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 223.96
-2.6%
N/A+14.5%£300.94M£286.51M26.648,400News Coverage
BIG
Big Technologies
1.1166 of 5 stars
GBX 91
-3.0%
GBX 80
-12.1%
-34.5%£258.48M£53.85M20.3836,200Gap Down

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This page (LON:RS1) was last updated on 7/6/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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