Conagra Brands (CAG) vs Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR)

Conagra Brands and Darling Ingredients Inc. are both Packaged Foods companies. Darling Ingredients Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $9.7B against $7.0B — 1.4× the size. Conagra Brands has negative trailing earnings, so its P/E is not meaningful; Darling Ingredients Inc. trades at 16.3×. Darling Ingredients Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 14.9% against −2.85%. Darling Ingredients Inc. has the higher net margin (9.13% vs −17.0%) and the higher return on invested capital (6.55% vs −7.61%). Across the 20 metrics below, Darling Ingredients Inc. leads on 13 and Conagra Brands on 7.

Valuation

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
P/E n/m 16.26 12.69
P/S 0.61 1.48 0.61
P/B 1.08 1.83 1.47
Price to free cash flow 6.84 10.80 8.50
EV/EBITDA n/m 9.10 8.20
EV/Sales 1.23 2.06 0.85
Earnings yield (27.93%) 6.15% 0.00%
Free cash flow yield 14.62% 9.26% 6.05%

Profitability

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
Gross margin 23.92% 26.33% 27.54%
Operating margin (14.43%) 14.52% 0.00%
Net margin (16.99%) 9.13% 0.00%
Free cash flow margin 9.02% 13.73% 2.56%
Return on equity (25.06%) 11.96% 0.00%
Return on assets (10.03%) 5.63% 0.00%
Return on invested capital (7.61%) 6.55% 0.00%

Growth

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
Revenue growth (TTM) (2.85%) 14.85% 5.69%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (266.67%) (77.46%) —
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 0.17% 11.43% 3.81%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR 0.00% (26.70%) 0.00%

Health

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
Debt to equity 1.14 0.74 0.26
Current ratio 0.90 1.56 1.64
Net debt to EBITDA (5.69) 4.87 0.87

Dividend

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
Dividend yield 4.94% — 3.21%
Payout ratio 0.93 0.00 0.00

Size

Metric CAG DAR Packaged Foods median
Market cap 7.03b 9.74b 245.45m

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