CHWY vs. DAR, POST, BROS, INGR, FRPT, NYT, FLO, LANC, RH, and ARMK
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Post (POST), Dutch Bros (BROS), Ingredion (INGR), Freshpet (FRPT), New York Times (NYT), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), RH (RH), and Aramark (ARMK). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, community ranking, dividends, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, risk and institutional ownership.
93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.1% of Chewy 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Darling Ingredients received 214 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
In the previous week, Chewy had 16 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 26 mentions for Chewy and 10 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.15 beat Chewy's score of 0.32 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chewy has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Chewy currently has a consensus price target of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 67.29%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus price target of $71.30, suggesting a potential upside of 64.17%. Given Chewy's higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Chewy is more favorable than Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Chewy's net margin of 0.33%. Darling Ingredients' return on equity of 12.22% beat Chewy's return on equity.
Darling Ingredients has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Chewy. Darling Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Chewy on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding CHWY and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period.
This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.
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