JD Sports Fashion could be worth watching
Scanning the new year tip sheets to give his own take on the favourite stocks for 2026, analyst Alistair Strang reveals what he thinks of the tracksuits-to-trainers retailer.
8th January 2026 07:43
by Alistair Strang from Trends and Targets
As most of the UK will be currently concentrating on losing a few kilo’s, one of the beneficiaries of such a change in the national mood will doubtless be JD Sports Fashion (LSE:JD.). After all, everyone knows you cannot lose weight unless you’re wearing the right exercise gear.
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A few of the usual culprits are promoting JD Sports as a potential recovery stock during 2026. We’re trawling through these shares being tipped, intending to identify any utterly silly (from our perspective) recommendations, but with JD Sports, the share price is almost on the verge of becoming worth watching.
We can calculate closure above 90p should prove a trigger point, promoting price recovery to an initial confident looking 101p with our longer-term secondary, if bettered, working out at a more distant 113p along with some game changing potentials for the Big Picture.
Our little pile of tea leaves suggests closure above a future 113p shall prove important as it gives a strong hint of ambitions in the direction of a future 145p.
Time will tell, but for now it needs below 75p to shatter any confidence.
Source: Trends and Targets. Past performance is not a guide to future performance.
Alistair Strang has led high-profile and "top secret" software projects since the late 1970s and won the original John Logie Baird Award for inventors and innovators. After the financial crash, he wanted to know "how it worked" with a view to mimicking existing trading formulas and predicting what was coming next. His results speak for themselves as he continually refines the methodology.
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