INGR vs. POST, FRPT, KLG, COKE, NYT, DAR, CHWY, ARMK, PPC, and FLO
Should you be buying Ingredion stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Ingredion include Post (POST), Freshpet (FRPT), WK Kellogg (KLG), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), New York Times (NYT), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Chewy (CHWY), Aramark (ARMK), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), and Flowers Foods (FLO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Post (NYSE:POST) and Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their community ranking, analyst recommendations, dividends, media sentiment, profitability, valuation, earnings, institutional ownership and risk.
Post has a beta of 0.66, suggesting that its stock price is 34% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, suggesting that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Post currently has a consensus target price of $109.67, suggesting a potential upside of 3.76%. Ingredion has a consensus target price of $126.67, suggesting a potential upside of 10.55%. Given Post's higher possible upside, analysts clearly believe Ingredion is more favorable than Post.
In the previous week, Post had 87 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 92 mentions for Post and 5 mentions for Ingredion. Post's average media sentiment score of 0.93 beat Ingredion's score of -0.13 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than Post. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Post, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Post received 42 more outperform votes than Ingredion when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 67.42% of users gave Post an outperform vote while only 57.01% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Ingredion has a net margin of 7.88% compared to Ingredion's net margin of 4.03%. Post's return on equity of 18.57% beat Ingredion's return on equity.
94.9% of Post shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.3% of Ingredion shares are owned by institutional investors. 10.7% of Post shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 1.8% of Ingredion shares are owned 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.
Summary
Ingredion beats Post on 10 of the 18 factors compared between the two stocks.
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