INGR vs. ADM, BG, DAR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, K, POST, FRPT, and KLG
Should you be buying Ingredion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingredion include Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Bunge Global (BG), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), Kellanova (K), Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), and WK Kellogg (KLG).
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, risk, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings, valuation, dividends and institutional ownership.
Ingredion has a net margin of 8.45% compared to Ingredion's net margin of 3.32%. Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity of 16.56% beat Ingredion's return on equity.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.78, meaning that its share price is 22% 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.
78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Ingredion shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ingredion shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 272 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Archer-Daniels-Midland presently has a consensus price target of $67.50, suggesting a potential upside of 8.10%. Ingredion has a consensus price target of $127.17, suggesting a potential upside of 8.15%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.
Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.2%. Ingredion pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 35.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingredion pays out 31.3% 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. Archer-Daniels-Midland has raised its dividend for 52 consecutive years and Ingredion has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years. Archer-Daniels-Midland is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Ingredion. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingredion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland had 4 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland and 4 mentions for Ingredion. Archer-Daniels-Midland's average media sentiment score of 1.01 beat Ingredion's score of 0.89 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Ingredion beats Archer-Daniels-Midland on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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