INGR vs. POST, FRPT, NYT, DAR, CHWY, ARMK, COKE, ELF, BROS, and PPC
Should you be buying Ingredion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingredion include Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Aramark (ARMK), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Dutch Bros (BROS), and Pilgrim's Pride (PPC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) and Post (NYSE:POST) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, media sentiment, valuation, dividends, community ranking, risk and profitability.
Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, meaning that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Post has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its stock price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Ingredion has a net margin of 8.45% compared to Post's net margin of 4.38%. Ingredion's return on equity of 16.56% beat Post's return on equity.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than Post. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Post, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingredion presently has a consensus target price of $127.17, indicating a potential upside of 6.30%. Post has a consensus target price of $113.67, indicating a potential upside of 7.01%. Given Post's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Post is more favorable than Ingredion.
In the previous week, Post had 63 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 76 mentions for Post and 13 mentions for Ingredion. Ingredion's average media sentiment score of 0.68 beat Post's score of -0.05 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
85.3% of Ingredion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ingredion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 10.7% of Post shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
Post received 45 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Summary
Ingredion and Post tied by winning 9 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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