INGR vs. ADM, BG, DAR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, K, POST, FRPT, and KLG
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), Kellanova (K), Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), and WK Kellogg (KLG).
Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) and Archer-Daniels-Midland (NYSE:ADM) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their valuation, earnings, profitability, risk, institutional ownership, community ranking, media sentiment, analyst recommendations and dividends.
Ingredion currently has a consensus target price of $127.17, suggesting a potential upside of 9.30%. Archer-Daniels-Midland has a consensus target price of $67.50, suggesting a potential upside of 10.93%. Given Archer-Daniels-Midland's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Archer-Daniels-Midland is more favorable than Ingredion.
Archer-Daniels-Midland has higher revenue and earnings than Ingredion. Archer-Daniels-Midland is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Ingredion, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Archer-Daniels-Midland received 272 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.78% of users gave Archer-Daniels-Midland an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
85.3% of Ingredion shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 78.3% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ingredion shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.2% of Archer-Daniels-Midland shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingredion pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.7%. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.3%. Ingredion pays out 31.3% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Archer-Daniels-Midland pays out 35.1% 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.
Ingredion has a net margin of 8.45% compared to Archer-Daniels-Midland's net margin of 3.32%. Ingredion's return on equity of 16.56% beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's return on equity.
Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its share price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Archer-Daniels-Midland has a beta of 0.78, indicating that its share price is 22% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Archer-Daniels-Midland had 16 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Archer-Daniels-Midland and 5 mentions for Ingredion. Ingredion's average media sentiment score of 1.70 beat Archer-Daniels-Midland's score of 0.81 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Summary
Ingredion beats Archer-Daniels-Midland on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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