Analysts Set JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) Price Target at GBX 234.11

JD Sports Fashion Plc (LON:JD) has received an average rating of “Hold” from the eight research firms that are covering the company, Marketbeat.com reports. One research analyst has rated the stock with a sell rating, three have given a hold rating and four have assigned a buy rating to the company. The average twelve-month target price among analysts that have issued a report on the stock in the last year is GBX 233.

Several equities research analysts recently commented on JD shares. UBS Group reissued a “neutral” rating and issued a GBX 94 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Tuesday, May 5th. Citigroup cut their price objective on shares of JD Sports Fashion from GBX 86 to GBX 83 and set a “neutral” rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, May 20th. Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft reiterated a “sell” rating and issued a GBX 460 target price on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Thursday, May 7th. Berenberg Bank reissued a “buy” rating and issued a GBX 155 target price on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research report on Thursday. Finally, Jefferies Financial Group restated a “buy” rating and set a GBX 840 price target on shares of JD Sports Fashion in a research note on Wednesday, May 6th.

JD Sports Fashion Trading Down 0.5%

JD opened at GBX 82.72 on Monday. The company’s 50-day moving average price is GBX 79.06 and its two-hundred day moving average price is GBX 78.72. The company has a current ratio of 1.42, a quick ratio of 0.71 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 133.23. The firm has a market capitalization of £4.28 billion, a PE ratio of 827.20, a price-to-earnings-growth ratio of 1.05 and a beta of 1.65.

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

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.