DAR vs. CHWY, BROS, FRPT, INGR, NYT, LANC, FLO, ARMK, RH, and ELF
Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include Chewy (CHWY), Dutch Bros (BROS), Freshpet (FRPT), Ingredion (INGR), New York Times (NYT), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Aramark (ARMK), RH (RH), and e.l.f. Beauty (ELF). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Chewy (NYSE:CHWY) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, earnings, risk, profitability, valuation, analyst recommendations, community ranking, media sentiment and dividends.
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.
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 0.91 beat Darling Ingredients' score of 0.36 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Chewy currently has a consensus price target of $26.60, suggesting a potential upside of 58.02%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus price target of $70.80, suggesting a potential upside of 69.91%. Given Chewy's stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Chewy.
Darling Ingredients has lower revenue, but higher earnings 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.
Chewy has a beta of 0.91, indicating that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.31, indicating that its share price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500.
93.1% of Chewy shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 2.1% of Chewy shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.3% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.
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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