Free Trial

Tesco (TSCO) Competitors

Tesco logo
GBX 401.10 0.00 (0.00%)
As of 07/11/2025 12:36 PM Eastern

TSCO vs. JD, SIG, RS1, BBY, PAG, HSTG, PETS, COST, ELA, and BOOT

Should you be buying Tesco stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Tesco 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), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Costain Group (COST), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), and Henry Boot (BOOT). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Tesco vs. Its Competitors

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

33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.8% of Tesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Tesco shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

JD Sports Fashion presently has a consensus price target of GBX 109.50, indicating a potential upside of 24.91%. Tesco has a consensus price target of GBX 400, indicating a potential downside of 0.27%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Tesco.

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
Tesco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. 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. Tesco pays out 68.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tesco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

JD Sports Fashion has a net margin of 3.17% compared to Tesco's net margin of 1.92%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 14.97% beat Tesco's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
Tesco 1.92%11.33%3.93%

In the previous week, Tesco had 2 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tesco and 4 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. Tesco's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.29 indicating that Tesco is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tesco has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Tesco has higher revenue and earnings than JD Sports Fashion. Tesco 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£10.79B0.42£342.20M£0.10876.60
Tesco£66.34B0.40£1.27B£19.1120.99

Summary

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

Get Tesco News Delivered to You Automatically

Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for TSCO and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.

New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding TSCO and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
Skip Chart

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.
Skip Chart

TSCO vs. The Competition

MetricTescoGrocery Stores IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£26.77B£19.61B£6.90B£3.00B
Dividend Yield3.17%2.98%3.16%5.02%
P/E Ratio20.9919.0313.14150.83
Price / Sales0.4031.9996.92314,599.95
Price / Cash4.15148.13144.7427.97
Price / Book2.402.604.264.58
Net Income£1.27B£886.39M£999.43M£5.90B
7 Day Performance-1.09%-1.26%-0.42%11.51%
1 Month Performance2.37%-1.60%-1.38%7.91%
1 Year Performance26.42%14.11%67.04%32.00%

Tesco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TSCO
Tesco
1.2214 of 5 stars
GBX 401.10
flat
GBX 400
-0.3%
+27.7%£26.77B£66.34B20.9949,000
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.1424 of 5 stars
GBX 87.88
+7.6%
GBX 109.50
+24.6%
-18.7%£4.55B£10.79B878.80385,400News Coverage
High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900
RS1
RS Group
3.3021 of 5 stars
GBX 574.50
-2.4%
GBX 810
+41.0%
-24.0%£2.71B£2.91B14.856,500
BBY
Balfour Beatty
1.1673 of 5 stars
GBX 522
-0.3%
GBX 542.50
+3.9%
+28.3%£2.66B£7.72B12.19105,000
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
2.8466 of 5 stars
GBX 943.08
+0.6%
GBX 916.50
-2.8%
+26.3%£1.89B£738.64M10.1826,500Positive News
Dividend Increase
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
1.7952 of 5 stars
GBX 262.02
-0.7%
GBX 298.33
+13.9%
-19.0%£1.20B£1.41B15.93210
COST
Costain Group
0.9508 of 5 stars
GBX 148.36
+0.8%
GBX 105
-29.2%
+69.7%£397.37M£1.28B13.243,270
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 230
-0.4%
N/A+2.2%£309.06M£286.51M27.358,400

Related Companies and Tools


This page (LON:TSCO) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
From Our Partners