NYT vs. DAR, INGR, CHWY, POST, COKE, ARMK, PPC, FLO, LANC, and FRPT
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Ingredion (INGR), Chewy (CHWY), Post (POST), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), and Freshpet (FRPT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) and New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and dividends.
Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than New York Times. Darling Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New York Times, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Darling Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $72.55, suggesting a potential upside of 69.42%. New York Times has a consensus target price of $45.67, suggesting a potential upside of 1.39%. Given New York Times' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than New York Times.
94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of New York Times shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of New York Times shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Times has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
Darling Ingredients received 107 more outperform votes than New York Times when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote while only 61.00% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote.
New York Times has a net margin of 9.58% compared to New York Times' net margin of 8.46%. Darling Ingredients' return on equity of 16.48% beat New York Times' return on equity.
In the previous week, New York Times had 131 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 137 mentions for New York Times and 6 mentions for Darling Ingredients. New York Times' average media sentiment score of 1.34 beat Darling Ingredients' score of -0.13 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats New York Times on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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