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Paragon Banking Group (PAG) Competitors

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GBX 735.50 -7.50 (-1.01%)
(As of 11:46 AM ET)

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

Should you be buying Paragon Banking Group stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Paragon Banking Group include JD Sports Fashion (JD), Signature Aviation (SIG), RS Group (RS1), Balfour Beatty (BBY), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Big Technologies (BIG), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Henry Boot (BOOT), and Costain Group (COST). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.

Paragon Banking Group vs.

JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and Paragon Banking Group (LON:PAG) are both consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, community ranking, risk, profitability, dividends, media sentiment and valuation.

JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Paragon Banking Group has a beta of 1.52, suggesting that its share price is 52% more volatile than the S&P 500.

In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion and JD Sports Fashion both had 1 articles in the media. Paragon Banking Group's average media sentiment score of 1.84 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.00 indicating that Paragon Banking Group 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)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
1 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Paragon Banking Group
1 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Very Positive

Paragon Banking Group has a net margin of 42.60% compared to JD Sports Fashion's net margin of 3.17%. JD Sports Fashion's return on equity of 14.97% beat Paragon Banking Group's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
Paragon Banking Group 42.60%14.43%1.09%

JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 446, indicating a potential upside of 374.57%. Paragon Banking Group has a consensus price target of GBX 875, indicating a potential upside of 18.97%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Paragon Banking Group.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion
1 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.50
Paragon Banking Group
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
2 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 80.6% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Paragon Banking Group shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Paragon Banking Group received 171 more outperform votes than JD Sports Fashion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 80.06% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 77.84% of users gave Paragon Banking Group an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
JD Sports FashionOutperform Votes
570
80.06%
Underperform Votes
142
19.94%
Paragon Banking GroupOutperform Votes
741
77.84%
Underperform Votes
211
22.16%

JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Paragon Banking Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 40 per share and has a dividend yield of 5.4%. 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. Paragon Banking Group pays out 6,060.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.

JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than Paragon Banking Group. JD Sports Fashion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Paragon Banking Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.45£342.20M£0.10939.80
Paragon Banking Group£464.60M3.22£197.90M£0.661,114.39

Summary

JD Sports Fashion beats Paragon Banking Group on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PAG vs. The Competition

MetricParagon Banking GroupMortgage Finance IndustryFinancial SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£1.49B£693.58M£3.72B£1.94B
Dividend Yield5.16%6.93%4.43%5.26%
P/E Ratio1,114.39223.65419.421,918.43
Price / Sales3.2275.841,749.81416,255.30
Price / Cash0.4526.1952.4929.14
Price / Book1.112.381.932.97
Net Income£197.90M£80.87M£434.96M£183.11M
7 Day PerformanceN/A0.32%1.68%0.70%
1 Month Performance1.10%0.01%1.63%28.85%
1 Year Performance6.25%8.66%9.60%154.64%

Paragon Banking Group Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
3.3744 of 5 stars
GBX 735.50
-1.0%
GBX 875
+19.0%
+7.8%£1.49B£464.60M1,114.3926,500Positive News
Gap Down
JD
JD Sports Fashion
1.8532 of 5 stars
GBX 95
-2.2%
GBX 446
+369.5%
-42.5%£4.92B£10.79B950.00385,400High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900
RS1
RS Group
0.8701 of 5 stars
GBX 674.50
-0.7%
GBX 840
+24.5%
-17.4%£3.20B£2.94B1,729.496,500
BBY
Balfour Beatty
1.3922 of 5 stars
GBX 448.40
+0.5%
GBX 525
+17.1%
+34.6%£2.28B£8.07B1,067.62105,000
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
3.0688 of 5 stars
GBX 207.40
+0.1%
GBX 368.33
+77.6%
-33.9%£950.27M£1.48B1,296.25210
BIG
Big Technologies
2.113 of 5 stars
GBX 139
-0.7%
GBX 345
+148.2%
-21.0%£407.24M£54.45M3,475.0036,200
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BOOT
Henry Boot
N/AGBX 231
+0.4%
N/A+14.1%£308.71M£285.69M2,887.508,400Gap Up
COST
Costain Group
0.4129 of 5 stars
GBX 107.50
-0.9%
GBX 105
-2.3%
+68.0%£292.74M£1.31B977.273,270

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This page (LON:PAG) was last updated on 12/27/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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