FDP vs. DAR, LMNR, ALCO, ADM, BG, INGR, AGRO, LND, VFF, and LOCL
Should you be buying Fresh Del Monte Produce stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Fresh Del Monte Produce include Darling Ingredients (DAR), Limoneira (LMNR), Alico (ALCO), Archer-Daniels-Midland (ADM), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), Adecoagro (AGRO), BrasilAgro - Companhia Brasileira de Propriedades Agrícolas (LND), Village Farms International (VFF), and Local Bounti (LOCL).
Fresh Del Monte Produce vs.
Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, risk, community ranking, institutional ownership, media sentiment, earnings, valuation, dividends and analyst recommendations.
Darling Ingredients received 205 more outperform votes than Fresh Del Monte Produce when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 62.44% of users gave Fresh Del Monte Produce an outperform vote while only 62.38% of users gave Darling Ingredients an outperform vote.
Darling Ingredients has a net margin of 4.88% compared to Fresh Del Monte Produce's net margin of 0.36%. Darling Ingredients' return on equity of 6.04% beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity.
Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $46.00, suggesting a potential upside of 45.85%. Given Darling Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Fresh Del Monte Produce.
64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 31.6% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.36, suggesting that its stock price is 64% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.25, suggesting that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.
Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Darling Ingredients, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
In the previous week, Darling Ingredients had 11 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 14 mentions for Darling Ingredients and 3 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.66 beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's score of 1.44 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 13 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:FDP) was last updated on 5/22/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff