Shares in JD Sports Fashion PLC show a positive technical chart pattern over the medium term. The timing to jump back on the rising trend seems good.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● Analysts expect a sharply increasing business volume for the group, with high growth rates in the coming years.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
● The group usually releases upbeat results with huge surprise rates.
● The company has attractive valuation levels with a low EV/sales ratio compared with its peers.
● Over the last twelve months, the sales forecast has been frequently revised upwards.
● Analysts covering this company mostly recommend stock overweighting or purchase.
Weaknesses
● The share is close to its long-term resistance in weekly data. Therefore, the potential should be limited. However, a further bullish movement when crossing this resistance will be a positive signal.
● Technically, the stock approaches a strong medium-term resistance at GBp 521.4.
● The company is not the most generous with respect to shareholders' compensation.
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JD Sports Fashion Plc is a United Kingdom-based multichannel retailer of sports, fashion and outdoor brands. The Company specializes in the sale of sports fashion and outdoor footwear and apparel, combining global brands such as Nike, adidas, Puma and The North Face, with own brand labels such as Pink Soda and Supply & Demand. The Company's segments include Sports Fashion and Outdoor. Its sports fashion brands include JD, Size?, Footpatrol, Finish Line, Shoe palace, DTLR, Livestock, Sprinter, Sport Zone, Perry Sport and Sizeer. Its outdoor brands include Go Outdoors (GO), Blacks, Millets, Tiso, Ultimate Outdoors, Fishing Republic and Naylors. Its Finish Line is a retailer of multi-branded athletic footwear, apparel and accessories in the United States. Shoe Palace is a retailer of branded sports footwear and apparel located on the West Coast of the United States and has over 160 stores, which trade under the Shoe Palace banner.