CHWY vs. POST, DAR, NYT, FRPT, INGR, ARMK, LANC, FLO, RH, and BROS
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Post (POST), Darling Ingredients (DAR), New York Times (NYT), Freshpet (FRPT), Ingredion (INGR), Aramark (ARMK), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), RH (RH), and Dutch Bros (BROS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk, community ranking and dividends.
Post has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Post's net margin of 0.33%. Post's return on equity of 11.69% beat Chewy's return on equity.
In the previous week, Post had 82 more articles in the media than Chewy. MarketBeat recorded 108 mentions for Post and 26 mentions for Chewy. Post's average media sentiment score of 0.26 beat Chewy's score of -0.02 indicating that Chewy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post received 185 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Post has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Post presently has a consensus price target of $113.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.45%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $26.83, indicating a potential upside of 73.79%. Given Post's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chewy is more favorable than Post.
94.9% of Post shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Post has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chewy. Post is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Post beats Chewy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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