CHWY vs. DAR, POST, BROS, INGR, FRPT, NYT, FLO, LANC, RH, and ARMK
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Post (POST), Dutch Bros (BROS), Ingredion (INGR), Freshpet (FRPT), New York Times (NYT), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), RH (RH), and Aramark (ARMK). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) 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 dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, earnings, community ranking, risk, media sentiment and valuation.
Darling Ingredients presently has a consensus price target of $71.30, indicating a potential upside of 64.17%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $26.83, indicating a potential upside of 67.29%. Given Darling Ingredients' higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chewy is more favorable than Darling Ingredients.
94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
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 55.32% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its stock price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Darling Ingredients has higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 0.33%. Chewy's return on equity of 12.22% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.
In the previous week, Chewy had 17 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Chewy and 9 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 1.22 beat Darling Ingredients' score of 0.37 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Chewy on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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