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Darling Ingredients Inc.

🇺🇸DAR•NYSE

Darling Ingredients Inc.

🇺🇸DAR•NYSE
Market cap
$8.46B
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Mkt Cap
$8.46B
Sentiment
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Company Overview

Overview

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About Darling Ingredients Inc.

Industry
Packaged Foods
Sector
Consumer Defensive
CEO
Randall C. Stuewe Randy
Headquarters
5601 North MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX, US
Industry
Packaged Foods
Sector
Consumer Defensive
CEO
Randall C. Stuewe Randy
Headquarters
5601 North MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX, US
Description

Darling Ingredients Inc. develops, produces, and sells natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. 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 Sonac, Dar Pro, Rothsay, Rousselot, Nature Safe, CleanStar, Peptan, Cookie Meal, Bakery Feeds, Ecoson, and Rendac brand names in North America, Europe, China, South America, Australia, and internationally.

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.

Financial Data

Stock Data

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Fair Value

What FRC thinks it is worth vs. the current price.

FRC's fair value estimate for Darling Ingredients Inc., and the rating behind it. DAR last traded at $53.62, 10.0× trailing earnings — the estimate is read against that market price. FRC analysts run the firm's valuation model across the companies on this platform to estimate what each one is worth, rather than republishing a consensus average. Shows the current estimate, our rating, and when it was last revised. A free account covers 7 company valuations a month; a paid subscription is unlimited.

Financial Ratios

Profitability, returns, valuation, and leverage ratios.

Valuation, profitability, liquidity and leverage ratios for Darling Ingredients Inc.. Starting points for Darling Ingredients Inc.: P/E 10.0, EPS $5.38, beta 1.05 — an Packaged Foods name. P/E, P/B, EV/EBITDA, margins, return on equity, current ratio and debt coverage, each shown against the company's own history.

Dividend Analysis

Yield, payout ratio, and dividend coverage metrics.

Dividend history, yield and payout sustainability for Darling Ingredients Inc.. Darling Ingredients Inc. does not currently pay a regular dividend, so this section tracks capacity rather than history. Per-share payments, yield over time, payout ratio and growth streak, with coverage measured against free cash flow.

Earnings Analysis

EPS history, beat rate, and upcoming earnings reports.

Reported vs. expected earnings history for Darling Ingredients Inc.. Trailing twelve-month EPS for Darling Ingredients Inc. stands at $5.38. EPS surprises by quarter, revenue against estimates, and the upcoming reporting date.

Financial Statements

Income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow statements.

Income statement, balance sheet and cash flow history for Darling Ingredients Inc.. Darling Ingredients Inc. has reported as a listed company since 1994. Annual and quarterly filings with period-over-period comparison, so you can trace how revenue, margins and cash generation have moved.

Peer Comparison

Comparables

List of peer companies in the same industry.

Darling Ingredients Inc. valued side by side against its closest peers. Darling Ingredients Inc. is measured against Packaged Foods peers within the Consumer Defensive sector. Peer-relative multiples and operating metrics, so the valuation is read in the context of its own sector rather than in isolation.

Ownership & News

Institutional Ownership

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Which institutions hold Darling Ingredients Inc., and how their positions are changing. At a $8.46B market value, institutional positions materially move Darling Ingredients Inc.'s register. Top holders, position sizes, and quarter-over-quarter accumulation or distribution from regulatory filings.

Insider Trading

Recent buying and selling by company executives.

Buying and selling by Darling Ingredients Inc. executives and directors. Shares of Darling Ingredients Inc. have traded between $26.00 and $42.29 over the past 52 weeks — context for the timing of the transactions below. Insider transactions as disclosed to regulators, with role, size and date — the clearest read on how the people running the company are positioned.

House Trading

U.S. Representative disclosures filed under the STOCK Act.

U.S. House of Representatives disclosures naming Darling Ingredients Inc.. Representatives' reported transactions in this security, shown next to the company's fundamentals.

News

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Latest headlines and company announcements for Darling Ingredients Inc.. Coverage tracks Darling Ingredients Inc. within Packaged Foods (Consumer Defensive). Press releases and market coverage, newest first.

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Peer companies

  • BCPCBalchem Corporation
  • COIHYCroda International Plc
  • GVDNYGivaudan S.A.
  • IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances Inc.
  • INGRIngredion Incorporated
  • KRYAYKerry Group plc
  • SYIEFSymrise AG

More Packaged Foods companies

  • MLFNFMaple Leaf Foods Inc.
  • MOOOFBettermoo(d) Food Corporation
  • MRVSYMinerva S.A.
  • MTTCFSteakholder Foods Ltd.
  • MUSLFPromino Nutritional Sciences Inc.
  • MYLKFThe Planting Hope Company Inc.
  • MZTIThe Marzetti Company
  • NAIINatural Alternatives International, Inc.
  • NATRNature's Sunshine Products, Inc.
  • NCHEYNichirei Corporation
  • NCRANocera, Inc.
  • NFPDFNissin Foods Holdings Co.,Ltd.

ETFs holding Darling Ingredients Inc.

Largest holders, then the funds most concentrated in DAR · % = share of the fund

  • XUU.TOiShares Core S&P U.S. Total Market Index ETF0.01%
  • IJHiShares Core SP Mid-Cap ETF0.26%
  • VTIVanguard Total Stock Market ETF0.01%
  • VBVanguard Small-Cap ETF0.12%
  • ACESALPS Clean Energy ETF4.48%
  • EVXVanEck Environmental Services ETF3.52%
  • MGNRAmerican Beacon GLG Natural Resources ETF3.33%
  • FXGFirst Trust Consumer Staples AlphaDEX Fund2.72%
DAR Analysis
Good
Past5
Growth1
Health5
Profit3
Value2

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