DAR vs. CHWY, INGR, POST, NYT, BROS, FRPT, ARMK, COKE, FLO, and LANC Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include Chewy (CHWY), Ingredion (INGR), Post (POST), New York Times (NYT), Dutch Bros (BROS), Freshpet (FRPT), Aramark (ARMK), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Flowers Foods (FLO), and Lancaster Colony (LANC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR ) and Chewy (NYSE:CHWY ) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, media sentiment, dividends, earnings, valuation, profitability, community ranking, risk and institutional ownership.
94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
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 media.
Darling Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $71.30, indicating a potential upside of 64.17%. Chewy has a consensus target price of $26.83, indicating a potential upside of 67.29%. Given Chewy's higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Chewy is more favorable than Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
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 higher earnings, but lower revenue 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.
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.
Summary Darling Ingredients beats Chewy on 14 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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