NYT vs. INGR, DAR, ARMK, CHWY, PPC, POST, ELF, FRPT, COKE, and LANC
Should you be buying New York Times stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of New York Times include Ingredion (INGR), Darling Ingredients (DAR), Aramark (ARMK), Chewy (CHWY), Pilgrim's Pride (PPC), Post (POST), e.l.f. Beauty (ELF), Freshpet (FRPT), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), and Lancaster Colony (LANC). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.
Ingredion (NYSE:INGR) and New York Times (NYSE:NYT) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their earnings, community ranking, institutional ownership, valuation, risk, dividends, profitability, media sentiment and analyst recommendations.
85.3% of Ingredion shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 95.4% of New York Times shares are owned by institutional investors. 1.8% of Ingredion shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.0% of New York Times shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.
Ingredion has a beta of 0.81, indicating that its stock price is 19% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, New York Times has a beta of 1, indicating that its stock price has a similar volatility profile to the S&P 500.
In the previous week, New York Times had 41 more articles in the media than Ingredion. MarketBeat recorded 73 mentions for New York Times and 32 mentions for Ingredion. New York Times' average media sentiment score of 0.46 beat Ingredion's score of 0.09 indicating that Ingredion is being referred to more favorably in the media.
Ingredion pays an annual dividend of $3.12 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.6%. New York Times pays an annual dividend of $0.52 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.1%. Ingredion pays out 32.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. New York Times pays out 37.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Ingredion has raised its dividend for 13 consecutive years and New York Times has raised its dividend for 6 consecutive years. Ingredion is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Ingredion received 32 more outperform votes than New York Times when rated by MarketBeat users. However, 61.07% of users gave New York Times an outperform vote while only 56.93% of users gave Ingredion an outperform vote.
Ingredion has higher revenue and earnings than New York Times. Ingredion is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than New York Times, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
New York Times has a net margin of 9.58% compared to New York Times' net margin of 7.88%. New York Times' return on equity of 18.57% beat Ingredion's return on equity.
Ingredion currently has a consensus target price of $127.17, indicating a potential upside of 6.05%. New York Times has a consensus target price of $46.71, indicating a potential downside of 2.37%. Given New York Times' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts plainly believe Ingredion is more favorable than New York Times.
Summary
Ingredion beats New York Times on 11 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks.
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