Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP) Competitors

Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) and Fresh Del Monte Produce (NYSE:FDP) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, analyst recommendations, profitability, valuation, institutional ownership, dividends, risk and earnings.

Which has stronger valuation and earnings, DAR or FDP?

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.

Company	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Darling Ingredients	$5.70B	1.00	$278.88M	$0.66	54.41
Fresh Del Monte Produce	$4.28B	0.41	$142.20M	$3.12	11.86

Do analysts recommend DAR or FDP?

Darling Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $43.57, suggesting a potential upside of 21.34%. Given Darling Ingredients' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Fresh Del Monte Produce.

Company	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Darling Ingredients	0 Sell rating(s)	3 Hold rating(s)	5 Buy rating(s)	1 Strong Buy rating(s)	2.78
Fresh Del Monte Produce	0 Sell rating(s)	0 Hold rating(s)	0 Buy rating(s)	0 Strong Buy rating(s)	0.00

Which has more risk and volatility, DAR or FDP?

Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.19, suggesting that its stock price is 19% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.42, suggesting that its stock price is 58% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Is DAR or FDP more profitable?

Fresh Del Monte Produce has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 1.85%. Fresh Del Monte Produce's return on equity of 6.84% beat Darling Ingredients' return on equity.

Company	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Darling Ingredients	1.85%	2.35%	1.05%
Fresh Del Monte Produce	3.49%	6.84%	4.41%

Do institutionals & insiders hold more shares of DAR or FDP?

94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 30.1% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Does the media refer more to DAR or FDP?

In the previous week, Darling Ingredients had 14 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 30 mentions for Darling Ingredients and 16 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Darling Ingredients' average media sentiment score of 1.39 beat Fresh Del Monte Produce's score of 1.18 indicating that Darling Ingredients is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company	Very Positive	Positive	Neutral	Negative	Very Negative	Overall Sentiment
Darling Ingredients	23 Very Positive mention(s)	2 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	1 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive
Fresh Del Monte Produce	13 Very Positive mention(s)	0 Positive mention(s)	1 Neutral mention(s)	0 Negative mention(s)	0 Very Negative mention(s)	Positive

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 12 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.