Darling Ingredients (NYSE: DAR) and Mondelez International (NYSE:KFT) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, profitability, valuation, dividends, earnings and risk.
Analyst Recommendations
This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Darling Ingredients and Mondelez International, as reported by MarketBeat.
| Sell Ratings | Hold Ratings | Buy Ratings | Strong Buy Ratings | Rating Score | |
| Darling Ingredients | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 3.00 |
| Mondelez International | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | N/A |
Darling Ingredients currently has a consensus price target of $18.60, indicating a potential upside of 9.61%. Given Darling Ingredients’ higher probable upside, equities research analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Mondelez International.
Earnings and Valuation
This table compares Darling Ingredients and Mondelez International’s revenue, earnings per share and valuation.
| Gross Revenue | Price/Sales Ratio | EBITDA | Earnings Per Share | Price/Earnings Ratio | |
| Darling Ingredients | $3.52 billion | 0.79 | $428.51 million | $0.51 | 33.28 |
| Mondelez International | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Mondelez International.
Profitability
This table compares Darling Ingredients and Mondelez International’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.
| Net Margins | Return on Equity | Return on Assets | |
| Darling Ingredients | 2.39% | 3.99% | 1.77% |
| Mondelez International | 8.84% | 9.94% | 3.68% |
Insider & Institutional Ownership
94.5% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.0% of Darling Ingredients 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.
Summary
Darling Ingredients beats Mondelez International on 5 of the 8 factors compared between the two stocks.
About Darling Ingredients
Darling Ingredients Inc. (Darling) is a developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries. The Company operates through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients and Fuel Ingredients. The Company collects and transforms all aspects of animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as gelatin, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstocks, green energy, natural casings and hides. In addition, the Company provides grease trap services to food service establishments, environmental services to food processors and sells restaurant cooking oil delivery and collection equipment.
About Mondelez International
Mondelez International, Inc. is a snack company. The Company manufactures and markets snack food and beverage products for consumers. It operates through four segments: Latin America, Asia, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA), Europe and North America. As of December 31, 2016, its brands spanned five product categories: Biscuits (including cookies, crackers and salted snacks); Chocolate; Gum and candy; Beverages (including coffee and powdered beverages), and Cheese and grocery. Itsportfolio includes various snack brands, including Nabisco, Oreo, LU and belVita biscuits; Cadbury, Milka, Cadbury Dairy Milk and Toblerone chocolate; Trident gum; Halls candy, and Tang powdered beverages. The Company sells its products to supermarket chains, wholesalers, supercenters, club stores, mass merchandisers, distributors, convenience stores, gasoline stations, drug stores, value stores and retail food outlets. As of December 31, 2016, it sold its products to consumers in approximately 165 countries.
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