DAR vs. MED, NOMD, BG, INGR, FDP, LMNR, ALCO, ADM, MKC, and USFD
Should you be buying Darling Ingredients stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darling Ingredients include MEDIFAST (MED), Nomad Foods (NOMD), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), McCormick & Company, Incorporated (MKC), and US Foods (USFD).
Darling Ingredients vs. Its Competitors
Medifast (NYSE:MED) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, analyst recommendations, profitability, media sentiment, dividends, earnings and valuation.
Medifast currently has a consensus price target of $16.50, indicating a potential upside of 28.60%. Darling Ingredients has a consensus price target of $43.25, indicating a potential upside of 36.39%. Given Darling Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Medifast.
Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Medifast. Medifast is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Darling Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Medifast has a beta of 0.85, meaning that its share price is 15% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its share price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 1.85% compared to Medifast's net margin of 0.76%. Darling Ingredients' return on equity of 2.35% beat Medifast's return on equity.
95.5% of Medifast shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.9% of Medifast shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company is poised for long-term growth.
In the previous week, Darling Ingredients had 7 more articles in the media than Medifast. MarketBeat recorded 8 mentions for Darling Ingredients and 1 mentions for Medifast. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.00 beat Medifast's score of 0.45 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Medifast on 14 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:DAR) was last updated on 10/16/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff