CHWY vs. POST, DAR, NYT, FRPT, INGR, ARMK, LANC, FLO, RH, and BROS
Should you be buying Chewy stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Chewy include Post (POST), Darling Ingredients (DAR), New York Times (NYT), Freshpet (FRPT), Ingredion (INGR), Aramark (ARMK), Lancaster Colony (LANC), Flowers Foods (FLO), RH (RH), and Dutch Bros (BROS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) 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, dividends, profitability, valuation, community ranking, institutional ownership, earnings, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
Post has a net margin of 4.38% compared to Post's net margin of 0.33%. Post's return on equity of 11.69% beat Chewy's return on equity.
Post received 185 more outperform votes than Chewy when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.58% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 55.32% of users gave Chewy an outperform vote.
Post has a beta of 0.65, meaning that its share price is 35% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Chewy has a beta of 0.91, meaning that its share price is 9% less volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, Post had 68 more articles in the media than Chewy. MarketBeat recorded 96 mentions for Post and 28 mentions for Chewy. Post's average media sentiment score of 0.29 beat Chewy's score of 0.11 indicating that Chewy is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Post currently has a consensus target price of $113.67, suggesting a potential upside of 6.45%. Chewy has a consensus target price of $26.83, suggesting a potential upside of 66.61%. Given Post's higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Chewy is more favorable than Post.
Post has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Chewy. Post is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Chewy, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 93.1% of Chewy shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.1% of Chewy shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Summary
Post beats Chewy on 11 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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