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

Shares of JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) have earned a consensus recommendation of “Hold” from the eight ratings firms that are presently covering the company, MarketBeat reports. One equities research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have issued a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average 1-year price target among brokers that have covered the stock in the last year is GBX 233.

JD has been the subject of several research reports. Citigroup reduced their price objective on shares of JD Sports Fashion from GBX 86 to GBX 83 and set a “neutral” rating for the company in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. Royal Bank Of Canada restated an “outperform” rating and issued a GBX 100 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research report on Tuesday, June 23rd. UBS Group reiterated a “neutral” rating and set a GBX 94 price objective on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research report on Tuesday, May 5th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft restated a “sell” rating and issued a GBX 460 target price on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Thursday, May 7th. Finally, Shore Capital Group reaffirmed a “hold” rating on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a report on Wednesday.

JD Sports Fashion Stock Down 1.5%

Shares of JD Sports Fashion stock opened at GBX 85.78 on Friday. The company has a fifty day moving average price of GBX 83.23 and a two-hundred day moving average price of GBX 78.83. The firm has a market capitalization of £4.44 billion, a price-to-earnings ratio of 857.80, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.65. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 133.23, a quick ratio of 0.71 and a current ratio of 1.42.

JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) last released 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 return on equity of 14.97% and a net margin of 3.17%.The firm had revenue of GBX 1,266.20 billion for the quarter. Analysts anticipate that JD Sports Fashion will post 15.037961 earnings per share for the current fiscal 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.