JD Sports Fashion (JD.L)
Consumer · LSE · UK
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
JD Sports Fashion trades at £0.87, close to the £0.77 our discounted cash flow model puts on the business. On this measure the market and the model broadly agree, so the interesting question is which of them is wrong.
Our moat model scores it 46 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 9.3 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
About JD Sports Fashion
JD Sports Fashion Plc engages in the retail of branded sports fashion and outdoor clothing, footwear, accessories, and equipment for women and men in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, and the Asia Pacific. It operates through JD, Complementary Athleisure, and Sporting Goods and Outdoors segments. The company also engages in the business of fitness and leisure clubs; and sells gift cards. It offers products under the JD, Finish Line, JD Gyms, Size?, Footpatrol, Livestock, Hibbett, DTLR, Shoe Palace, Sizeer, Courir, Sprinter, Sport Zone, Go Outdoors, Blacks, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, Fishing Republic, Millets, and Naylors brand names. The company sells its products through retail stores and websites. JD Sports Fashion Plc was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Bury, the United Kingdom. The company operates as a subsidiary of Pentland Group Limited.
JD.L passes 2 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Common questions
Is JD Sports Fashion (JD.L) undervalued?
Against our discounted cash flow estimate of £0.77, JD.L at £0.87 is 12% above fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation, and most of a DCF's output sits in a terminal value nobody can forecast.
What is JD.L's P/E ratio?
JD.L trades at 9.3 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
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