Financial Analysis: Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) & Kalera AS (OTCMKTS:KSLLF)

Kalera AS (OTCMKTS:KSLLF) and Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better investment? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, analyst recommendations, profitability, risk and dividends.

Profitability

This table compares Kalera AS and Darling Ingredients’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Kalera AS	N/A	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	9.13%	12.98%	6.08%

Insider & Institutional Ownership

94.4% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by institutional investors. 1.9% of Darling Ingredients shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Kalera AS and Darling Ingredients, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Kalera AS	0	0	0	0	0.00
Darling Ingredients	0	2	10	1	2.92

Darling Ingredients has a consensus target price of $69.00, indicating a potential upside of 12.20%. Given Darling Ingredients’ stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Darling Ingredients is more favorable than Kalera AS.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Kalera AS and Darling Ingredients”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Kalera AS	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Darling Ingredients	$6.14 billion	1.58	$62.80 million	$3.71	16.58

Darling Ingredients has higher revenue and earnings than Kalera AS.

Summary

Darling Ingredients beats Kalera AS on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Kalera AS

Kalera AS operates as a technology-driven vertical farming company. It produces pesticide-free non-GMO vegetables. The company's products include arugula, kohlrabi, onion, mixes, daikon and purple radish, and lettuces. It serves restaurant and food trade, including resorts and the cruise industry. The company is headquartered in Oslo, Norway.

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.