JD vs. NXT, SHOE, BUMP, QUIZ, FLTR, IHG, SKG, MKS, BKG, and WTB Should you be buying JD Sports Fashion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of JD Sports Fashion include NEXT (NXT), Shoe Zone (SHOE), Seraphine Group (BUMP), QUIZ (QUIZ), Flutter Entertainment (FLTR), InterContinental Hotels Group (IHG), Smurfit Kappa Group (SKG), Marks and Spencer Group (MKS), The Berkeley Group (BKG), and Whitbread (WTB). These companies are all part of the "consumer cyclical" sector.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD ) and NEXT (LON:NXT ) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, valuation, media sentiment, earnings, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership and dividends.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.7%. NEXT pays an annual dividend of GBX 207 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.2%. JD Sports Fashion pays out 2,500.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. NEXT pays out 3,155.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
In the previous week, NEXT had 1 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 12 mentions for NEXT and 11 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.42 beat NEXT's score of 0.31 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.57, suggesting that its share price is 57% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, NEXT has a beta of 1.28, suggesting that its share price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500.
33.2% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.7% of NEXT shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 7.1% of NEXT shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus target price of GBX 487, indicating a potential upside of 263.98%. NEXT has a consensus target price of GBX 6,683.33, indicating a potential downside of 28.43%. Given JD Sports Fashion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than NEXT.
NEXT has lower revenue, but higher earnings than JD Sports Fashion. NEXT 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.
NEXT has a net margin of 14.61% compared to JD Sports Fashion's net margin of 1.89%. NEXT's return on equity of 57.10% beat JD Sports Fashion's return on equity.
JD Sports Fashion received 5 more outperform votes than NEXT when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.46% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 50.22% of users gave NEXT an outperform vote.
Summary JD Sports Fashion beats NEXT on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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