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Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR) vs Smithfield Foods, Inc. (SFD)

Darling Ingredients Inc. and Smithfield Foods, Inc. are both Packaged Foods companies. Darling Ingredients Inc. and Smithfield Foods, Inc. are of similar size ($8.0B and $7.7B). Smithfield Foods, Inc. trades at the lower P/E: 8.5× against 9.5×. Darling Ingredients Inc. grew revenue faster over the last twelve months: 16.0% against −0.60%. Darling Ingredients Inc. has the higher net margin (12.5% vs 5.94%) and the lower return on invested capital (0.00% vs 9.17%). Across the 20 metrics below, Smithfield Foods, Inc. leads on 16 and Darling Ingredients Inc. on 4.

Valuation

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
P/E 9.51 8.48 12.84
P/S 1.18 0.51 0.67
P/B 1.51 1.10 1.58
Price to free cash flow 8.90 8.16 8.97
EV/EBITDA 7.95 5.71 8.34
EV/Sales 1.74 0.56 0.97
Earnings yield 10.51% 11.79% 2.16%
Free cash flow yield 11.23% 12.25% 5.54%

Profitability

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
Gross margin 26.79% 12.57% 28.37%
Operating margin 17.90% 7.59% 2.53%
Net margin 12.48% 5.94% 0.53%
Free cash flow margin 0.00% 6.21% 2.31%
Return on equity 0.00% 13.35% 0.00%
Return on assets 0.00% 7.60% 0.00%
Return on invested capital 0.00% 9.17% 0.00%

Growth

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
Revenue growth (TTM) 15.95% (0.60%) 3.59%
EPS growth (last fiscal year) (77.46%) 0.00% 4.57%
Revenue growth, 5-year CAGR 11.43% — 3.81%
Net income growth, 5-year CAGR (26.70%) — 0.00%

Health

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
Debt to equity 0.74 0.29 0.18
Current ratio 1.56 2.39 1.84
Net debt to EBITDA 4.87 0.29 0.73

Dividend

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
Dividend yield — 6.09% 3.68%
Payout ratio — 0.52 0.62

Size

Metric DAR SFD Packaged Foods median
Market cap 8.00b 7.72b 268.23m

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