Darling Ingredients (DAR)
Consumer Staples · Animal by-product processing and rendering; sustainable ingredients and biofuel feedstock provider
Global developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from animal by-products and used cooking oils serving pharma, food, pet food, feed, and renewable fuel industries.
What Darling Ingredients does
Darling Ingredients is a global processor of animal by-products and used cooking oils that transforms them into sustainable natural ingredients for multiple industries. The company collects and processes beef, poultry, and pork by-products; used cooking oil; and bakery residuals into finished products including proteins, fats, collagen, blood products, and feed ingredients. It operates over 150 facilities in North America and 81 facilities internationally across five continents, and is a partner with Valero Energy in Diamond Green Diesel, which produces renewable diesel and Sustainable Aviation Fuel from recovered feedstocks.
Themes: ["animal by-products recycling and rendering"]
Fundamentals
- Price$60.19 as of 2026-07-09 close
- Market cap$9.6B as of 2026-07-10
- 1-year return+61.8% as of 2026-07-09 close
- P/E42.84 as of 2026-07-10
- Net margin+3.5% as of 2026-07-10
- Gross margin+24.9% as of 2026-07-10
- ROE+4.7% as of 2026-07-10
- Debt / equity0.85 as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue growth (YoY)+11.1% as of 2026-07-10
- Revenue CAGR (3y)-1.6% SEC XBRL
- Beta1.04 as of 2026-07-10
Key risks (from latest filing)
["Commodity price volatility and feedstock cost fluctuations impact gross margins and profitability"]
Competitors & peers
- Rendac (competitor in rendering and biofuel sector, though Rendac is part of Darling Ingredients International subsidiary)
Fundamentals: Finnhub, as of 2026-07-10. Filings: SEC EDGAR. Prices are delayed daily-close data.
Last updated 2026-07-09.
Informational only — NOT financial advice. All figures are delayed daily-close data from SEC EDGAR & Finnhub, shown with their as-of date.