DAR vs. BG, INGR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, ADM, BF.B, TSN, MKC, and CELH
Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Brown-Forman (BF.B), Tyson Foods (TSN), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), and Celsius (CELH).
Bunge Global (NYSE:BG) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both basic materials companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Bunge Global received 52 more outperform votes than Darling Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 63.18% of users gave Bunge Global an outperform vote while only 62.45% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 3.22%. Darling Ingredients' return on equity of 17.49% beat Bunge Global's return on equity.
Bunge Global currently has a consensus target price of $121.00, suggesting a potential upside of 16.20%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $70.80, suggesting a potential upside of 91.09%. Given Bunge Global's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Bunge Global.
86.2% of Bunge Global shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.6% of Bunge Global shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned 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.
In the previous week, Darling Ingredients had 1 more articles in the media than Bunge Global. MarketBeat recorded 9 mentions for Darling Ingredients and 8 mentions for Bunge Global. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.48 beat Bunge Global's score of 1.23 indicating that Bunge Global is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Bunge Global has higher revenue and earnings than Darling Ingredients. Bunge Global is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Darling Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Bunge Global has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its share price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.26, meaning that its share price is 26% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Bunge Global on 10 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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