The Campbell's Company (CPB) vs Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR)

The Campbell's Company and Darling Ingredients Inc. are both Packaged Foods companies. Darling Ingredients Inc. is the larger, with a market value of $8.0B against $7.0B — 1.1× the size. Darling Ingredients Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 9.5× against 17.5×. Darling Ingredients Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 16.0% against −4.96%. Darling Ingredients Inc. has the higher net margin (12.5% vs 4.14%) and the lower return on invested capital (0.00% vs 5.54%). Across the 22 metrics below, Darling Ingredients Inc. leads on 12 and The Campbell's Company on 10.

Valuation

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
P/E 17.51 9.51 12.84
P/S 0.72 1.18 0.67
P/B 1.81 1.51 1.58
Price to free cash flow 10.31 8.90 8.97
EV/EBITDA 10.06 7.95 8.34
EV/Sales 1.31 1.74 0.97
Earnings yield 5.71% 10.51% 2.16%
Free cash flow yield 9.70% 11.23% 5.54%

Profitability

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
Gross margin 28.14% 26.79% 28.37%
Operating margin 8.74% 17.90% 2.53%
Net margin 4.14% 12.48% 0.53%
Free cash flow margin 6.96% 0.00% 2.31%
Return on equity 10.39% 0.00% 0.00%
Return on assets 2.64% 0.00% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 5.54% 0.00% 0.00%

Growth

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
Revenue growth (TTM) (4.96%) 15.95% 3.59%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (34.83%) (77.46%) 4.57%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 2.83% 11.43% 3.81%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR (16.65%) (26.70%) 0.00%

Health

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
Debt to equity 1.60 0.74 0.18
Current ratio 0.82 1.56 1.84
Net debt to EBITDA 4.55 4.87 0.73

Dividend

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
Dividend yield 6.05% — 3.68%
Payout ratio 1.08 — 0.62

Size

Metric CPB DAR Packaged Foods median
Market cap 6.99b 8.00b 268.23m

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