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Darling Ingredients (DAR) Competitors

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$40.13 -1.03 (-2.50%)
(As of 11/22/2024 ET)

DAR vs. ADM, BG, INGR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, EL, TSN, CLX, and MKC

Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), Estée Lauder Companies (EL), Tyson Foods (TSN), Clorox (CLX), and McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC).

Darling Ingredients vs.

Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) and Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their dividends, community ranking, valuation, risk, profitability, media sentiment, analyst recommendations, earnings and institutional ownership.

Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 4.42% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 2.07%. Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity of 10.96% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Darling Ingredients4.42% 5.98% 2.57%
Archer-Daniels-Midland 2.07%10.96%4.68%

In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland had 14 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 17 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland and 3 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.19 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 0.63 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Darling Ingredients
3 Very Positive mention(s)
0 Positive mention(s)
0 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Archer-Daniels-Midland
11 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
4 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

Darling Ingredients presently has a consensus target price of $53.44, suggesting a potential upside of 33.38%. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a consensus target price of $62.83, suggesting a potential upside of 18.26%. Given Darling Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Darling Ingredients
0 Sell rating(s)
2 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.78
Archer-Daniels-Midland
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
0 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
1.93

Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.23, indicating that its stock price is 23% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.73, indicating that its stock price is 27% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Archer-Daniels-Midland received 190 more outperform votes than Darling Ingredients when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.52% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 62.64% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Darling IngredientsOutperform Votes
456
62.64%
Underperform Votes
272
37.36%
Archer-Daniels-MidlandOutperform Votes
646
65.52%
Underperform Votes
340
34.48%

Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Darling Ingredients. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Darling Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Darling Ingredients$6.79B0.94$647.73M$1.6224.73
Archer-Daniels-Midland$87.01B0.29$3.48B$3.5015.18

94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Archer-Daniels-Midland on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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DAR vs. The Competition

MetricDarling IngredientsFats & oils IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$6.55B$14.75B$14.70B$20.21B
Dividend YieldN/A3.39%2.63%3.48%
P/E Ratio24.7317.0020.1036.82
Price / Sales0.940.484.4518.78
Price / Cash5.565.5221.1321.50
Price / Book1.381.216.234.72
Net Income$647.73M$2.12B$582.93M$986.85M
7 Day Performance-6.92%-3.53%3.30%3.76%
1 Month Performance4.74%-0.67%-0.67%4.65%
1 Year Performance-7.31%-18.60%12.39%27.72%

Darling Ingredients Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
DAR
Darling Ingredients
4.2303 of 5 stars
$40.13
-2.5%
$53.44
+33.2%
-7.3%$6.38B$6.79B24.7715,800
ADM
Archer-Daniels-Midland
4.6413 of 5 stars
$53.15
+0.2%
$62.83
+18.2%
-28.5%$25.43B$93.94B15.2341,802
BG
Bunge Global
4.6357 of 5 stars
$88.50
+0.5%
$118.00
+33.3%
-20.0%$12.36B$59.54B11.2023,000Positive News
INGR
Ingredion
4.4966 of 5 stars
$144.36
+1.4%
$155.17
+7.5%
+40.5%$9.41B$8.16B13.8911,600
FDP
Fresh Del Monte Produce
3.7287 of 5 stars
$33.60
-0.8%
N/A+44.8%$1.61B$4.32B101.8238,887News Coverage
Positive News
LMNR
Limoneira
3.6285 of 5 stars
$27.52
+3.7%
$25.33
-7.9%
+77.8%$496.74M$179.90M94.90260Positive News
ALCO
Alico
2.8941 of 5 stars
$26.28
+4.9%
N/A-3.1%$200.25M$39.85M7.68210News Coverage
EL
Estée Lauder Companies
4.8968 of 5 stars
$66.85
+2.3%
$98.57
+47.5%
-43.0%$24.00B$15.61B116.6862,000Analyst Forecast
Insider Trade
Analyst Revision
Positive News
TSN
Tyson Foods
4.371 of 5 stars
$63.77
+0.8%
$60.67
-4.9%
+32.8%$22.69B$53.31B28.47138,000Insider Trade
CLX
Clorox
4.287 of 5 stars
$169.06
+0.6%
$155.00
-8.3%
+20.5%$20.93B$7.09B58.948,000Dividend Announcement
MKC
McCormick & Company, Incorporated
3.3255 of 5 stars
$77.95
+1.1%
$79.57
+2.1%
+17.3%$20.92B$6.66B26.2313,800Dividend Increase
News Coverage
Positive News

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This page (NYSE:DAR) was last updated on 11/23/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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