Comparing Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) & Tingyi Cayman Islands (OTCMKTS:TCYMF)

Tingyi Cayman Islands (OTCMKTS:TCYMF) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both mid-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, earnings, institutional ownership, dividends, valuation and risk.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings and price targets for Tingyi Cayman Islands and Darling Ingredients, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Tingyi Cayman Islands	0	0	0	0	0.00
Darling Ingredients	1	3	9	1	2.71

Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $45.33, suggesting a potential upside of 24.31%. Given Darling Ingredients’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Tingyi Cayman Islands.

Volatility and Risk

Tingyi Cayman Islands has a beta of -0.43, suggesting that its share price is 143% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.29, suggesting that its share price is 29% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by institutional investors. 2.6% of Darling Ingredients shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares Tingyi Cayman Islands and Darling Ingredients”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Tingyi Cayman Islands	$11.22 billion	0.65	$519.46 million	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	$5.84 billion	0.99	$278.88 million	$0.67	54.43

Tingyi Cayman Islands has higher revenue and earnings than Darling Ingredients.

Profitability

This table compares Tingyi Cayman Islands and Darling Ingredients’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Tingyi Cayman Islands	N/A	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	1.84%	2.39%	1.08%

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Tingyi Cayman Islands on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Tingyi Cayman Islands

Tingyi (Cayman Islands) Holding Corp., an investment holding company, manufactures and sells instant noodles, beverages, and instant food products in the People's Republic of China. The company operates through Instant Noodles, Beverages, and Others segments. It offers ready-to-drink teas, juices, bottled water, and carbonated soft drinks, as well as coffee drinks/functional drinks/probiotics. The company also provides property rental and management, logistics, management, and support services; and manufactures and sells bakery products. The company was founded in 1992 and is headquartered in Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.

About Darling Ingredients

Darling Ingredients Inc. develops, produces, and sells natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients in North America, Europe, China, South America, and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. It offers ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy, and fertilizer industries. The company also collects and transforms various animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as collagen, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstock, green energy, natural casings, and hides. In addition, it recovers and converts used cooking oil and animal fats, and residual bakery products into valuable feed and fuel ingredients. Further, the company provides environmental services, including grease trap collection and disposal services to food service establishments. It primarily operates under the Rendac, Sonac, FASA, Ecoson, Rousselot, Gelnex, and CTH brand names. The company was formerly known as Darling International Inc. and changed its name to Darling Ingredients Inc. in May 2014. Darling Ingredients Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.