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Fresh Del Monte Produce (FDP) Competitors

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FDP vs. DAR, ALCO, LMNR, ADM, BG, INGR, FMC, SMG, AVO, and AGRO

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), Alico (ALCO), Limoneira (LMNR), Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Bunge Global (BG), Ingredion (INGR), FMC (FMC), Scotts Miracle-Gro (SMG), Mission Produce (AVO), and Adecoagro (AGRO).

Fresh Del Monte Produce vs. Its Competitors

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

94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 64.8% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 31.6% of Fresh Del Monte Produce shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

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.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Darling Ingredients$5.84B0.93$278.88M$0.6751.54
Fresh Del Monte Produce$4.31B0.38$142.20M$3.1211.00

Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.22, meaning that its stock price is 22% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Fresh Del Monte Produce has a beta of 0.41, meaning that its stock price is 59% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Darling Ingredients currently has a consensus target price of $45.00, suggesting a potential upside of 30.32%. Given Darling Ingredients' higher possible upside, equities research 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
2 Sell rating(s)
3 Hold rating(s)
7 Buy rating(s)
1 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.54
Fresh Del Monte Produce
0 Sell rating(s)
0 Hold rating(s)
1 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.00

Fresh Del Monte Produce has a net margin of 3.49% compared to Darling Ingredients' net margin of 1.84%. 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 Ingredients1.84% 2.41% 1.09%
Fresh Del Monte Produce 3.49%6.84%4.41%

In the previous week, Darling Ingredients had 15 more articles in the media than Fresh Del Monte Produce. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Darling Ingredients and 8 mentions for Fresh Del Monte Produce. Fresh Del Monte Produce's average media sentiment score of 0.71 beat Darling Ingredients' score of 0.55 indicating that Fresh Del Monte Produce is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

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

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Fresh Del Monte Produce on 10 of the 17 factors compared between the two stocks.

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New MarketBeat Followers Over Time

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Media Sentiment Over Time

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FDP vs. The Competition

MetricFresh Del Monte ProduceAGRI OPERATIONS IndustryStaples SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$1.65B$2.64B$15.99B$21.98B
Dividend Yield3.48%3.98%3.15%3.57%
P/E Ratio11.0011.1818.0133.42
Price / Sales0.385.3447.2691.10
Price / Cash8.467.4814.6324.54
Price / Book0.823.277.174.66
Net Income$142.20M$118.20M$680.91M$1.02B
7 Day Performance-0.34%0.48%0.62%2.22%
1 Month Performance-0.12%0.39%0.27%2.07%
1 Year Performance19.53%-24.37%-0.23%14.05%

Fresh Del Monte Produce Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
FDP
Fresh Del Monte Produce
3.84 of 5 stars
$34.33
-0.3%
N/A+18.6%$1.65B$4.31B11.0039,886News Coverage
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
DAR
Darling Ingredients
4.1187 of 5 stars
$31.82
+0.4%
$43.25
+35.9%
-8.6%$5.01B$5.72B48.2015,500Trending News
Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
ALCO
Alico
0.7402 of 5 stars
$34.87
+0.6%
N/A+38.0%$264.91M$46.64M-1.70210Analyst Forecast
LMNR
Limoneira
4.1321 of 5 stars
$14.75
+1.4%
$20.50
+39.0%
-43.3%$262.42M$191.50M-26.82260News Coverage
Positive News
ADM
Archer Daniels Midland
4.0489 of 5 stars
$63.21
-0.2%
$55.50
-12.2%
+12.2%$30.43B$85.53B27.8544,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
BG
Bunge Global
4.3903 of 5 stars
$97.29
-0.2%
$94.86
-2.5%
+8.4%$19.51B$53.11B9.7223,000Positive News
Analyst Forecast
INGR
Ingredion
4.7727 of 5 stars
$121.57
+0.1%
$147.20
+21.1%
-12.8%$7.79B$7.43B11.8611,200Analyst Downgrade
FMC
FMC
4.3982 of 5 stars
$29.57
+0.6%
$43.08
+45.7%
-50.4%$3.67B$4.25B36.965,700Trending News
Upcoming Earnings
Analyst Forecast
SMG
Scotts Miracle-Gro
4.8546 of 5 stars
$54.55
+0.4%
$69.17
+26.8%
-36.6%$3.14B$3.55B71.776,200Positive News
Analyst Forecast
AVO
Mission Produce
4.7347 of 5 stars
$11.77
+0.4%
$17.00
+44.4%
-2.9%$827.66M$1.23B21.803,100News Coverage
Analyst Forecast
AGRO
Adecoagro
2.9595 of 5 stars
$7.63
-0.2%
$9.60
+25.9%
-32.9%$763.95M$1.52B21.7910,320News Coverage
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Forecast

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