Contrasting Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) and Top Wealth Group (NASDAQ:TWG)

Top Wealth Group (NASDAQ:TWG) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, risk, analyst recommendations, earnings, dividends, institutional ownership and profitability.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Top Wealth Group and Darling Ingredients”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Top Wealth Group	$4.75 million	0.43	-$2.02 million	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	$5.72 billion	1.08	$278.88 million	$0.67	58.31

Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Top Wealth Group.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of recent ratings for Top Wealth Group and Darling Ingredients, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Top Wealth Group	1	0	0	0	1.00
Darling Ingredients	1	2	9	2	2.86

Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $45.33, indicating a potential upside of 16.04%. Given Darling Ingredients’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Top Wealth Group.

Institutional & 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, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

Top Wealth Group has a beta of 1.28, meaning that its stock price is 28% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Darling Ingredients has a beta of 1.25, meaning that its stock price is 25% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Top Wealth Group and Darling Ingredients’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Top Wealth Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	1.84%	2.39%	1.08%

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Top Wealth Group on 12 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Top Wealth Group

Top Wealth Group Holding Limited, through its subsidiaries, provides caviar and caviar-based gourmet products in Hong Kong and internationally. The company also trades in caviars; and offers its products under the Imperial Cristal Caviar brand name. It serves food and beverage related distributors. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in Sai Wan, Hong Kong. Top Wealth Group Holding Limited operates as a subsidiary of Winwin Development Group Limited.

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.