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.
RS Group (LON:RS1) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both mid-cap industrials companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, earnings, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, media sentiment, risk, profitability and community ranking.
RS Group pays an annual dividend of GBX 22 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. 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 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 has a beta of 0.86, meaning that its stock price is 14% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
78.1% of RS Group shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.5% of RS Group shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
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.
RS Group currently has a consensus price target of GBX 840, indicating a potential upside of 23.80%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 446, indicating a potential upside of 424.46%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than RS Group.
JD Sports Fashion received 558 more outperform votes than RS Group when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 80.08% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 43.33% of users gave RS Group an outperform vote.
In the previous week, JD Sports Fashion had 9 more articles in the media than RS Group. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for JD Sports Fashion and 0 mentions for RS Group. JD Sports Fashion's average media sentiment score of 0.92 beat RS Group's score of 0.00 indicating that JD Sports Fashion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
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.
Summary
JD Sports Fashion beats RS Group on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:RS1) was last updated on 1/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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