RS1 vs. JD, SIG, BBY, HSTG, PAG, PETS, BIG, ELA, BOOT, and COST
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), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), 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.
RS Group vs.
JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) and RS Group (LON:RS1) are both mid-cap consumer cyclical companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, media sentiment, risk, earnings and valuation.
JD Sports Fashion has higher revenue and earnings than RS Group. JD Sports Fashion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than RS Group, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 0.9%. RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.1%. 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 5,641.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future.
JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 459.40, suggesting a potential upside of 306.73%. RS Group has a consensus price target of GBX 842.50, suggesting a potential upside of 19.93%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than RS Group.
JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, RS Group has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500.
JD Sports Fashion received 555 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.23% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 46.43% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.1% of RS Group shares are held by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.5% of RS Group shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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, JD Sports Fashion had 7 more articles in the media than RS Group. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 0 mentions for RS Group. RS Group's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.35 indicating that RS Group is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats RS Group on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RS1) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
