CHWY vs. DAR, INGR, NYT, BROS, FRPT, ARMK, ELF, COTY, COKE, and LANC
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Ingredion (INGR), New York Times (NYT), Dutch Bros (BROS), Freshpet (FRPT), Aramark (ARMK), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Coty (COTY), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), 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 superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, community ranking, earnings, media sentiment, profitability, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation and dividends.
Darling Ingredients presently has a consensus price target of $70.80, indicating a potential upside of 69.42%. Chewy has a consensus price target of $26.60, indicating a potential upside of 59.16%. Given Chewy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Chewy.
94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. 2.3% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Chewy had 13 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Chewy and 8 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Chewy's average media sentiment score of 0.94 beat Darling Ingredients' score of 0.36 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.
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 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 213 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.45% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote while only 55.53% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 8.46% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 0.33%. Chewy's return on equity of 12.22% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Chewy on 15 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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