INGR vs. ADM, BG, DAR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, GIS, K, POST, and FRPT
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), General Mills (GIS), Kellanova (K), Post (POST), and Freshpet (FRPT).
Ingredion vs.
Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, valuation, earnings and risk.
Archer-Daniels-Midland currently has a consensus target price of $55.11, suggesting a potential upside of 14.11%. Ingredion has a consensus target price of $158.20, suggesting a potential upside of 23.53%. Given Ingredion's stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Archer-Daniels-Midland.
78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Ingredion shares are held by institutional investors. 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ingredion shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.72, suggesting that its share price is 28% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingredion has a beta of 0.74, suggesting that its share price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 258 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 64.86% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 57.40% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Ingredion has a net margin of 8.71% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 2.10%. Ingredion's return on equity of 18.62% beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity.
Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.2%. Ingredion pays an annual dividend of $3.20 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.5%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 56.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Ingredion pays out 33.0% 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 53 consecutive years and Ingredion has raised its dividend for 14 consecutive years. Archer-Daniels-Midland is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland and Archer-Daniels-Midland both had 19 articles in the media. Archer-Daniels-Midland's average media sentiment score of 1.44 beat Ingredion's score of 1.06 indicating that Archer-Daniels-Midland is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Ingredion. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Archer-Daniels-Midland, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Ingredion beats Archer-Daniels-Midland on 12 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:INGR) was last updated on 2/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
