JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) Receives Consensus Recommendation of “Hold” from Analysts

JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) has earned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the eight ratings firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat reports. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have assigned a hold rating and four have given a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month price objective among brokers that have issued ratings on the stock in the last year is GBX 234.11.

Several equities research analysts have commented on the stock. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “sell” rating and issued a GBX 460 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Citigroup lowered their price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion from GBX 86 to GBX 83 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a report on Wednesday, May 20th. Royal Bank Of Canada reaffirmed an “outperform” rating and issued a GBX 100 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Tuesday, June 23rd. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 155 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Friday, May 8th. Finally, UBS Group reaffirmed a “neutral” rating and issued a GBX 94 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Tuesday, May 5th.

JD Sports Fashion Trading Up 0.5%

LON:JD opened at GBX 85.70 on Monday. The business’s 50 day moving average is GBX 78.25 and its two-hundred day moving average is GBX 78.57. The company has a quick ratio of 0.71, a current ratio of 1.42 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 133.23. The firm has a market capitalization of £4.44 billion, a P/E ratio of 857.00, a P/E/G ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.65.

JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) last posted its earnings results on Monday, May 11th. The company reported GBX 8.63 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter. JD Sports Fashion had a net margin of 3.17% and a return on equity of 14.97%. The company had revenue of GBX 1,266.20 billion during the quarter. Equities analysts forecast that JD Sports Fashion will post 15.037961 EPS for the current year.

JD Sports Fashion Company Profile

JD Sports Fashion plc engages in the retail of branded sports fashion and outdoor clothing, footwear, accessories, and equipment for kids, women, and men. It operates through Sports Fashion and Outdoor segments. The company also retails leisure goods, sports goods, fishing gear, camping goods, boats, and bicycles, as well as distributes sports apparel and accessories, footwear, and apparel. It offers its products under the JD, Size?, Footpatrol, Finish Line, Shoe Palace, DTLR, Livestock, Sprinter, Sport Zone, Sizeer, JD Gyms, Tessuti, Scotts, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, Fishing Republic, and Naylors brands.