NYT vs. INGR, DAR, CHWY, ARMK, COKE, ELF, PPC, POST, BROS, and FRPT
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Ingredion (INGR), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Aramark (ARMK), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Post (POST), Dutch Bros (BROS), and Freshpet (FRPT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) and New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, risk, earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, dividends, valuation and profitability.
Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Times has a beta of 1, meaning that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
New York Times has a net margin of 10.19% compared to New York Times' net margin of 8.45%. Ingredion's return on equity of 17.33% beat New York Times' return on equity.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than New York Times. Ingredion 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.
Ingredion received 32 more outperform votes than New York Times when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.07% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Ingredion presently has a consensus target price of $127.17, suggesting a potential upside of 6.30%. New York Times has a consensus target price of $46.71, suggesting a potential downside of 4.29%. Given New York Times' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than New York Times.
85.3% of Ingredion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ingredion shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of New York Times shares are held by 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 pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ingredion pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Times pays out 34.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Ingredion has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and New York Times has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Ingredion is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, New York Times had 57 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 72 mentions for New York Times and 15 mentions for Ingredion. New York Times' average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Ingredion's score of 0.03 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ingredion and New York Times tied by winning 10 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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