NYT vs. DAR, CHWY, INGR, COKE, POST, ARMK, PPC, FLO, LANC, and BROS
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Ingredion (INGR), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), Post (POST), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Flowers Foods (FLO), Lancaster Colony (LANC), and Dutch Bros (BROS). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
New York Times (NYSE:NYT) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) 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 dividends, institutional ownership, risk, valuation, earnings, profitability, community ranking, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
New York Times has a beta of 1.01, meaning that its stock price is 1% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.29, meaning that its stock price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New York Times had 77 more articles in the media than Darling Ingredients. MarketBeat recorded 94 mentions for New York Times and 17 mentions for Darling Ingredients. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 0.79 beat New York Times' score of 0.00 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
New York Times presently has a consensus price target of $45.67, indicating a potential upside of 4.60%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus price target of $72.55, indicating a potential upside of 64.09%. Given Darling Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than New York Times.
Darling Ingredients received 107 more outperform votes than New York Times when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 62.40% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote while only 61.00% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote.
New York Times has a net margin of 9.58% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 8.46%. New York Times' return on equity of 16.48% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.
Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than New York Times. Darling Ingredients is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New York Times, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
95.4% of New York Times shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 2.0% of New York Times 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 hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats New York Times on 12 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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