DAR vs. CHWY, NYT, POST, INGR, COKE, ARMK, FLO, LANC, FRPT, and PPC
Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include Chewy (CHWY), New York Times (NYT), Post (POST), Ingredion (INGR), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Freshpet (FRPT), and Pilgrim's Pride (PPC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, earnings, dividends, community ranking, media sentiment, risk, analyst recommendations, valuation and institutional ownership.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 0.33%. Chewy's return on equity of 12.27% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.
In the previous week, Chewy had 6 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 16 mentions for Chewy and 10 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 0.88 beat Darling Ingredients' score of 0.38 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Darling Ingredients has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chewy. Darling Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Chewy has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chewy presently has a consensus target price of $27.50, suggesting a potential upside of 72.52%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $72.55, suggesting a potential upside of 70.13%. Given Darling Ingredients' higher possible upside, research analysts plainly believe Chewy is more favorable than Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients received 214 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote while only 55.45% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Chewy on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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