INGR vs. FRPT, NYT, CHWY, ARMK, DAR, ELF, COTY, BROS, COKE, and LANC
Should you be buying Ingredion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingredion include Freshpet (FRPT), New York Times (NYT), Chewy (CHWY), Aramark (ARMK), Darling Ingredients (DAR), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Dutch Bros (BROS), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), and Lancaster Colony (LANC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) and Freshpet (NASDAQ:FRPT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations, media sentiment, community ranking, earnings, profitability and institutional ownership.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than Freshpet. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Freshpet, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Freshpet has a beta of 1.24, suggesting that its stock price is 24% more volatile than the S&P 500.
85.3% of Ingredion shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ingredion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 3.6% of Freshpet shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Ingredion had 1 more articles in the media than Freshpet. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Ingredion and 9 mentions for Freshpet. Ingredion's average media sentiment score of 0.99 beat Freshpet's score of 0.77 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ingredion has a net margin of 8.45% compared to Freshpet's net margin of 1.19%. Ingredion's return on equity of 16.56% beat Freshpet's return on equity.
Ingredion presently has a consensus target price of $127.17, indicating a potential upside of 7.49%. Freshpet has a consensus target price of $119.71, indicating a potential downside of 4.26%. Given Ingredion's higher possible upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Freshpet.
Freshpet received 101 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.34% of users gave Freshpet an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Summary
Ingredion beats Freshpet on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
Get Ingredion News Delivered to You Automatically
Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for INGR and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter.
This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding INGR 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.
Ingredion Competitors List
Related Companies and Tools
