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Tesco (TSCO) Competitors

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GBX 327.60 +1.80 (+0.55%)
As of 03/25/2025 12:42 PM Eastern

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.

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

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.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
JD Sports Fashion3.17% 14.97% 7.05%
Tesco 1.92%11.33%3.93%

JD Sports Fashion currently has a consensus price target of GBX 118.75, suggesting a potential upside of 56.74%. Tesco has a consensus price target of GBX 366.67, suggesting a potential upside of 11.93%. Given JD Sports Fashion's higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe JD Sports Fashion is more favorable than Tesco.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion
1 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.00
Tesco
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

33.0% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 55.8% of Tesco shares are owned by institutional investors. 51.9% of JD Sports Fashion shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.5% of Tesco shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

JD Sports Fashion has a beta of 1.65, meaning that its share price is 65% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Tesco has a beta of 0.51, meaning that its share price is 49% less volatile than the S&P 500.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
JD Sports Fashion£10.79B0.36£342.20M£0.10757.60
Tesco£66.34B0.33£1.27B£19.1117.14

Tesco received 766 more outperform votes than JD Sports Fashion when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 79.86% of users gave JD Sports Fashion an outperform vote while only 61.61% of users gave Tesco an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
JD Sports FashionOutperform Votes
571
79.86%
Underperform Votes
144
20.14%
TescoOutperform Votes
1337
61.61%
Underperform Votes
833
38.39%

In the previous week, Tesco had 2 more articles in the media than JD Sports Fashion. MarketBeat recorded 6 mentions for Tesco and 4 mentions for JD Sports Fashion. Tesco's average media sentiment score of 0.51 beat JD Sports Fashion's score of 0.08 indicating that Tesco 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)
1 Positive mention(s)
1 Neutral mention(s)
1 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Tesco
2 Very Positive mention(s)
2 Positive mention(s)
2 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

JD Sports Fashion pays an annual dividend of GBX 1 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.3%. Tesco pays an annual dividend of GBX 13 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. 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 pays out 68.0% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Tesco is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

Summary

Tesco beats JD Sports Fashion on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.

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TSCO vs. The Competition

MetricTescoGrocery Stores IndustryDefensive SectorLON Exchange
Market Cap£21.86B£13.05B£6.51B£2.61B
Dividend Yield3.17%2.72%3.16%4.95%
P/E Ratio17.1417.3610.96152.60
Price / Sales0.3312.8777.48282,666.96
Price / Cash4.1566.90147.7727.91
Price / Book1.962.932.864.60
Net Income£1.27B£671.20M£1.01B£5.77B
7 Day Performance0.43%1.20%0.26%-0.24%
1 Month Performance-12.76%-3.41%-0.23%4.16%
1 Year Performance11.54%9.35%46.58%133.37%

Tesco Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
TSCO
Tesco
1.9576 of 5 stars
GBX 327.60
+0.6%
GBX 366.67
+11.9%
+11.5%£21.86B£66.34B17.1449,000High Trading Volume
JD
JD Sports Fashion
2.0407 of 5 stars
GBX 72.60
+1.9%
GBX 118.75
+63.6%
-31.0%£3.76B£10.79B726.00385,400High Trading Volume
SIG
Signature Aviation
N/AN/AN/AN/A£3.29B£1.41B-495.0030,900News Coverage
RS1
RS Group
2.4785 of 5 stars
GBX 604.50
+0.2%
GBX 840
+39.0%
-21.5%£2.85B£2.91B15.626,500
BBY
Balfour Beatty
2.2809 of 5 stars
GBX 455
+1.5%
GBX 542.50
+19.2%
+21.4%£2.32B£7.72B10.62105,000News Coverage
HSTG
Hastings Group Holdings plc (HSTG.L)
N/AN/AN/AN/A£1.65B£763.70M19.053,372High Trading Volume
PAG
Paragon Banking Group
3.7746 of 5 stars
GBX 742
+0.5%
GBX 875
+17.9%
+15.1%£1.48B£738.64M8.0126,500Dividend Increase
Positive News
Gap Down
PETS
Pets at Home Group
3.4338 of 5 stars
GBX 236.20
+0.9%
GBX 368.33
+55.9%
-11.5%£1.08B£1.41B14.36210News Coverage
Gap Up
ELA
Eland Oil & Gas
N/AN/AN/AN/A£357.57M£207.73M5.53260
BIG
Big Technologies
N/AGBX 105
+2.9%
N/A-47.6%£298.25M£53.85M23.5136,200Gap Up
COST
Costain Group
0.8548 of 5 stars
GBX 107
+0.5%
GBX 105
-1.9%
+59.5%£286.60M£1.28B9.553,270
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This page (LON:TSCO) was last updated on 3/26/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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