POST vs. FRPT, INGR, KLG, BROS, CHWY, DAR, FLO, LANC, RH, and NYT
Should you be buying Post stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Post include Freshpet (FRPT), Ingredion (INGR), WK Kellogg (KLG), Dutch Bros (BROS), Chewy (CHWY), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), RH (RH), and New York Times (NYT). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, valuation, earnings, community ranking, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, profitability, institutional ownership and risk.
Post has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 1.19%. Post's return on equity of 10.93% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
Post presently has a consensus price target of $113.67, suggesting a potential upside of 7.01%. Freshpet has a consensus price target of $119.71, suggesting a potential downside of 5.48%. Given Post's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Post is more favorable than Freshpet.
In the previous week, Post had 69 more articles in the media than Freshpet. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Post and 7 mentions for Freshpet. Freshpet's average media sentiment score of 0.77 beat Post's score of -0.05 indicating that Freshpet is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post has a beta of 0.65, indicating that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.24, indicating that its share price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Freshpet received 54 more outperform votes than Post when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 62.24% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote.
94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Freshpet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Post has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. Post is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Post beats Freshpet on 12 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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