POST vs. INGR, FRPT, KLG, CHWY, DAR, NYT, FLO, LANC, COKE, and BROS
Should you be buying Post stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Post include Ingredion (INGR), Freshpet (FRPT), WK Kellogg (KLG), Chewy (CHWY), Darling Ingredients (DAR), New York Times (NYT), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), and Dutch Bros (BROS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, analyst recommendations, valuation, media sentiment, risk, earnings, community ranking and profitability.
In the previous week, Post had 79 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 84 mentions for Post and 5 mentions for Ingredion. Ingredion's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Post's score of -0.03 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Post currently has a consensus price target of $109.67, indicating a potential upside of 6.83%. Ingredion has a consensus price target of $126.67, indicating a potential upside of 10.57%. Given Ingredion's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Post.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than Post. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Post, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Post received 42 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.42% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 57.01% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
94.9% of Post shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Ingredion shares are held by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ingredion shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingredion has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Post's net margin of 4.38%. Ingredion's return on equity of 18.57% beat Post's return on equity.
Summary
Ingredion beats Post on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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