TSCO vs. JD, SIG, RS1, BBY, HSTG, PAG, PETS, ELA, BIG, and COST
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), Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L) (HSTG), Paragon Banking Group (PAG), Pets at Home Group (PETS), Eland Oil & Gas (ELA), Big Technologies (BIG), and Costain Group (COST). These companies are all part of the "retail" industry.
Tesco vs.
Tesco (LON:TSCO) and JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) are both consumer defensive companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, community ranking, dividends and risk.
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.
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.
Tesco has a beta of 0.51, suggesting that its stock price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, suggesting that its stock price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Tesco received 766 more outperform votes than JD Sports Fashion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.97% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 61.61% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote.
Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.5%. JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.2%. Tesco pays out 68.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. 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 is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.
In the previous week, Tesco had 4 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 7 mentions for Tesco and 3 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. Tesco's average media sentiment score of 0.59 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.08 indicating that Tesco is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Tesco currently has a consensus price target of GBX 366.67, suggesting a potential downside of 1.99%. JD Sports Fashion has a consensus price target of GBX 118.75, suggesting a potential upside of 45.96%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Tesco.
55.8% of Tesco shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by institutional investors. 2.5% of Tesco shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Tesco beats JD Sports Fashion on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (LON:TSCO) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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