Financial Comparison: Tilly’s (NYSE:TLYS) & JD Sports Fashion (OTCMKTS:JDDSF)

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

Profitability

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

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

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares JD Sports Fashion and Tilly’s”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
JD Sports Fashion	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Tilly’s	$553.59 million	0.23	-$17.45 million	($0.11)	-38.18

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

Institutional and Insider Ownership

76.4% of Tilly’s shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.4% of Tilly’s shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and price targets for JD Sports Fashion and Tilly’s, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
JD Sports Fashion	0	0	0	0	0.00
Tilly’s	1	2	0	0	1.67

Tilly’s has a consensus target price of $5.50, indicating a potential upside of 30.95%. Given Tilly’s’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Tilly’s is more favorable than JD Sports Fashion.

Summary

Tilly’s beats JD Sports Fashion on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.

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.

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.