DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. vs HORMEL FOODS CORPORATION, two Food & Beverage stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where DAR and HRL diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), DAR reads +20.4% and HRL reads -1.3%; on revenue growth, DAR reads +11.2% and HRL reads +2.5%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's DAR price has a different growth bar priced in than HRL (+20.4% implied for DAR vs -1.3% for HRL); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What DAR's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What HRL's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | DAR | HRL |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $60.72 | $25.01 |
| Market cap | $9.8B | $13.8B |
| Sector | Food & Beverage | Food & Beverage |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +20.4% | -1.3% |
| P/E | 44.0 | 29.4 |
| P/B | 1.98 | 1.73 |
| P/S | 1.55 | 1.13 |
| EV/EBITDA | 14.0 | 18.9 |
| Revenue growth | +11.2% | +2.5% |
| Gross margin | 26.1% | 17.4% |
| Operating margin | 14.6% | 7.3% |
| Net margin | 3.5% | 3.8% |
| Return on equity | 4.5% | 5.9% |
| Return on assets | 2.1% | 3.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 4.1% | 5.0% |
| FCF yield | 9.9% | 5.0% |
| Dividend yield | — | 4.6% |
| Debt / equity | 0.83 | 0.36 |
| Current ratio | 1.58 | 1.94 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.31 | 7.91 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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