Head-To-Head Analysis: JD Sports Fashion (OTCMKTS:JDDSF) versus Tilly’s (NYSE:TLYS)

Tilly’s (NYSE:TLYS) and JD Sports Fashion (OTCMKTS:JDDSF) are both consumer discretionary companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, analyst recommendations, dividends, profitability, risk and valuation.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Tilly’s and JD Sports Fashion, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tilly’s	1	1	0	1	2.33
JD Sports Fashion	0	0	0	0	0.00

Tilly’s currently has a consensus target price of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 38.50%. Given Tilly’s’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Tilly’s is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.

Profitability

This table compares Tilly’s and JD Sports Fashion’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tilly’s	-0.57%	-3.98%	-1.01%
JD Sports Fashion	N/A	N/A	N/A

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Tilly’s and JD Sports Fashion”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tilly’s	$553.59 million	0.22	-$17.45 million	($0.11)	-36.10
JD Sports Fashion	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

JD Sports Fashion has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Tilly’s.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

76.4% of Tilly’s shares are held by institutional investors. 26.4% of Tilly’s shares are held by 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.

Summary

Tilly’s beats JD Sports Fashion on 6 of the 9 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tilly’s

Tilly’s, Inc. engages in the retail of casual apparel, footwear, and accessories. Its stores are located in retail centers, including malls, lifestyle centers, power centers, community centers, outlet centers, and street-front locations. The company was founded by Hezy Shaked and Tilly Levine in 1982 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

About JD Sports Fashion

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. The company also operates online business. In addition, it licenses fashion brands and operates fitness centers; operates as online own label women's fashion retailer; and manufactures and distributes professional fitness equipment. The company has operations in the United Kingdom, Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malaysia, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Ireland, Romania, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain and the Canary Islands, Sweden, Thailand, and the United Arab Emirates. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bury, the United Kingdom. JD Sports Fashion plc is a subsidiary of Pentland Group Limited.