JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) Stock Has Average Target Price of GBX 191.89

JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) has received an average rating of “Hold” from the nine research firms that are covering the company, MarketBeat reports. Seven analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and two have given a buy rating to the company. The average 12-month price objective among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is GBX 191.89.

Several brokerages have weighed in on JD. Berenberg Bank reaffirmed a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 150 target price on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research report on Thursday, September 24th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reaffirmed a “hold” rating and set a GBX 95 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Thursday, September 3rd. Citigroup lifted their price target on JD Sports Fashion from GBX 83 to GBX 87 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, August 21st. Peel Hunt reissued a “hold” rating on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Friday, October 2nd. Finally, Royal Bank Of Canada reissued a “sector perform” rating and issued a GBX 100 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Monday, August 3rd.

JD Sports Fashion Trading Up 2.6%

LON JD opened at GBX 87.92 on Wednesday. The company has a debt-to-equity ratio of 133.23, a current ratio of 1.42 and a quick ratio of 0.71. The firm has a market capitalization of £4.55 billion, a P/E ratio of 879.20, a PEG ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.65. The stock has a fifty day moving average of GBX 83.71 and a two-hundred day moving average of GBX 81.05.

JD Sports Fashion (LON:JD) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, September 23rd. The company reported GBX 3.97 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%. As a group, analysts predict that JD Sports Fashion will post 15.04 EPS for the current year.

Insider Transactions at JD Sports Fashion

In other JD Sports Fashion news, insider Peter Agnefjäl bought 320,000 shares of JD Sports Fashion stock in a transaction on Friday, September 25th. The stock was purchased at an average cost of GBX 77 per share, for a total transaction of £246,400. 51.91% of the stock is owned by company insiders.

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.