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NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, INC. · Food Products · CIK 0000916540
$55.64
-5.84% · live
Updated
$8.82B market value
From DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.'s FY2026 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026 · read the filing
DARLING INGREDIENTS makes food and drink. It took in $6.14B last year, which makes it a mid-sized company. Of every dollar it sells, about 1 cents is left as profit.
The financial picture is mixed, with profitability, growth and debt needing attention.
A conclusion from the filings, not a recommendation. Detailed figures and supporting evidence appear in their dedicated sections below.
Recent open-market selling by 6 insiders, not under a pre-arranged plan.
$2.1M sold in the last 120 days · Read the filing
These are things the company filed or that a published model flagged — not predictions, and not a reason on their own to buy or sell anything.
Financial health
A mixed picture — some clear strengths and some weaknesses.
From DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.'s FY2026 annual filing · share price scored separately
Largest year-over-year changes in FY2026
Operating income
$468.2M → $273.4M
Profit
$278.9M → $62.8M
Earnings per share
$1.75 → $0.40
Gross profit
$1.28B → $1.47B
Measured against FY2024, from the 10-K filed Mar 3, 2026
Deteriorated: -41.6%
$468.2M to $273.4MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Deteriorated: -77.5%
$278.9M to $62.8MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
How the latest move compares (quote live), and what was published around it
DAR fell 5.84% on the latest quote. The average Consumer Staples company tracked here moved +4.05%, and the S&P 500 −1.04%. That is 9.9 points below its sector and 4.8 points below the market.
Expectations
Not from the filings — what other people are betting on, and what the price already assumes.
The growth rate someone buying today is paying for, against what the company has delivered
At today's price, the market is paying for free cash flow to grow by about 5% a year for the next 10 years. Over the last 13 years it grew by about 17% a year.
The essentials
Each answered from the filings, with the numbers behind it.
Yes. It keeps about 1 cents of every dollar of sales as profit, earning $62.8M last year.
Slowly. Sales grew 7.4% last year.
Manageable, but notable. Clearing its debt would take about 3.6 years of cash flow. For every $1 it owes, it owns $1.88 in assets.
Core operating and valuation reference metrics
Income
This company pays no dividend. It keeps its profits and reinvests them in the business instead, so any return would have to come from the share price.
Figures from the FY2026 annual filing
Last year it earned $62.8M and generated $1.06B of cash from operations.
Reported annual figures
As reported to the SEC, in USD. Hover or show sources to see where each figure came from.
| Income statement | FY202610-K · Mar 3, 2026Filing for FY2026 | FY202410-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2024 | FY202310-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2023 | FY202210-K · Feb 25, 2025Filing for FY2022 | FY202110-K · Mar 1, 2022Filing for FY2021 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RevenueWhat is this? | $6.14B | $5.72B | $6.79B | $6.53B | $3.57B |
| Cost of revenue | $4.66B | $4.44B | $5.14B | $5.00B | $2.69B |
| Gross profit | $1.47B | $1.28B | $1.65B | $1.53B | $883.1M† |
| Gross marginGross profit ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 24.0% | 22.4% | 24.2% | 23.4% | 24.7% |
| Selling, general and administrative | $551.2M | $492.1M | $542.5M | $436.6M | $378.5M |
| Operating income | $273.4M | $468.2M | $949.7M | $1.03B | $430.9M |
| Operating marginOperating income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 4.5% | 8.2% | 14.0% | 15.8% | 12.1% |
| Interest expense | $222.3M | $253.9M | $259.2M | $125.6M | $72.7M |
| Income before tax | $61.0M | $247.5M | $720.0M | $893.7M | $353.6M |
| Net income | $62.8M | $278.9M | $647.7M | $737.7M | $296.8M |
| Net marginNet income ÷ revenueWhat is this? | 1.0% | 4.9% | 9.5% | 11.3% | 8.3% |
| Earnings per shareNet income ÷ shares outstanding at the period end — close to, but not the same as, the reported EPSWhat is this? | $0.396 | $1.75 | $4.05 | $4.58 | $1.83 |
† calculated from other reported figures, such as total liabilities as assets minus equity. There is no consecutive earlier year to compare with.
This company's latest filing beside its peers' stored scores
| Company | Health | F-Score | Revenue growth | Profit margin | P/E | Debt to equity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DARDARLING INGREDIENTS INC. · this page | 6.0/10 | 8/9 | — | 1.0% | 140.51x | 1.16x |
Insider activity, ownership stakes and what's coming — straight from EDGAR, before any article is written about it
Officers, directors and major shareholders must report within two business days of a trade.
Sold on the open market — 5,000 shares at $68.20 ($341.0K)
Holds 1,133,467 shares after this filing.
Exercised stock options — 5,928 shares at $18.82 ($111.6K)
Holds 84,036 shares after this filing.
20 recent filings, newest first. Each is labelled from its form and item numbers, not from its wording.
Published results
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2026
Revenue +16.4% · Operating margin +27.1 pts · Gross profit +45.5% — against Q2 FY2025
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Every figure above traces back to a filing in the timeline, each linked to the document itself.
The 149 subsidiaries named in its 10-K, incorporated across 27 places. A filer lists the significant ones and may leave the rest out, so this is the floor rather than the full count.
Every company's figures are checked for internal consistency: the balance sheet adding up, figures sharing one currency, cash flow and share counts within plausible ranges, and how recent the latest annual report is. Nothing here changes a figure.
Financial figures are from DAR's 10-K for fiscal year 2026 (period ending 2026-01-03, filed Mar 3, 2026), reported under the US GAAP taxonomy. View the source filing.
3 of 4 scored areas had enough reported figures to judge
The score averages profitability, growth, debt and accounting. Accounting had too few reported figures and is left out of the average rather than counted as a weakness, so a company is never marked down for a figure it did not publish. Cash generation is shown for context and already feeds profitability. Valuation is scored separately, because a share price says nothing about whether the business is sound. 9 of the 9 Piotroski checks could be evaluated. How the score works
Each year scored only from its annual report as it was first filed
| Fiscal year | Health | F-Score | Scored from |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026 | 6.0 | 3/3 | 10-K, filed Mar 3, 2026 |
| FY2024 | 4.7 | 5/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2025 |
| FY2023 | 6.0 | 6/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 28, 2024 |
| FY2022 | 7.0 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 27, 2023 |
| FY2021 | 8.0 | 3/3 | 10-K, filed Mar 2, 2021 |
| FY2019 | 4.7 | 7/9 | 10-K, filed Feb 25, 2020 |
A later restatement never reaches back into an earlier year, and every year is scored without a share price, so the latest point can differ a little from the headline score, which uses today's price.
Every check behind the three models, and what each one tests
8 of 9 checks passed
Nine yes-or-no tests of whether this year's finances improved on last year's.
2.26
In the grey zone
For this model, above 2.99 is safe and below 1.81 is distress.
Distance from bankruptcy, from a model fitted on companies that did and did not go bust. It describes a balance sheet's shape today; it does not forecast a failure.
not reported — This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
Screens eight accounting ratios for the pattern earnings manipulators tend to leave. A flag is a reason to read the filing closely, never evidence of wrongdoing.
Every figure above comes from the FY2026 filing as filed with the SEC.
Deteriorated: -77.3%
$1.75 to $0.40Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +15.3%
$1.28B to $1.47BSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Deteriorated: −3.7 pts
8.2% to 4.5%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Deteriorated: −3.9 pts
4.9% to 1.0%Significant
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +34.0%
$506.8M to $679.2MSignificant
Why it matters: Cash left after paying for the plant that produced it — the money genuinely available for dividends, buybacks or paying down debt. Harder to flatter than profit.
Improved: +16.7%
$76.0M to $88.7MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +7.4%
$5.72B to $6.14BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +1.7 pts
22.4% to 24.0%Notable
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Changed: +14.4%
$332.5M to $380.5MNotable
Why it matters: Neither good nor bad on its own. Heavy spending is a company building capacity or a company struggling to stand still, and the two look identical in this figure.
Q2 FY2026 against Q2 FY2025, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it.
Improved: +45.5%
$345.9M to $503.4MCritical
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +631.8%
$75.9M to $555.2MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +2959.1%
$12.7M to $387.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +27.1 pts
5.1% to 32.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +21.6 pts
0.9% to 22.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +2955.7%
$0.08 to $2.44Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +70.0%
$94.6M to $160.7MCritical
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +16.4%
$1.48B to $1.72BSignificant
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
Improved: +5.9 pts
23.3% to 29.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Q2 FY2026 against Q1 FY2026, from the 10-Q filed Aug 7, 2026 — read it. Quarter-to-quarter moves include seasonal swings — a retailer's holiday quarter — which the year-earlier comparison removes.
Improved: +144.8%
$226.8M to $555.2MCritical
Why it matters: Profit from running the business, before interest and tax. Less exposed than profit to one-off financing and tax items, so a clearer read on the business itself.
Improved: +188.4%
$134.3M to $387.3MCritical
Why it matters: Profit swings far more than sales do, and one-off items — a legal settlement, a tax charge, an asset sale — move it without the underlying business changing.
Improved: +17.6 pts
14.6% to 32.2%Critical
Why it matters: What survives each sale after running the business. A falling operating margin beside a steady gross margin points at overheads — wages, marketing, research — rather than pricing.
Improved: +13.8 pts
8.7% to 22.5%Critical
Why it matters: What survives to the very end of each sale. Worth reading beside revenue: growing sales on a shrinking margin means the company is buying its growth.
Improved: +188.8%
$0.85 to $2.44Critical
Why it matters: Profit divided by the shares in issue at the period end, so it sits close to but not on the company's own reported figure. It can rise with no growth in profit when the company buys back stock — read it beside the share count.
Improved: +24.3%
$404.9M to $503.4MSignificant
Why it matters: What is left of sales after the direct cost of producing them. It normally moves with revenue, so a move out of step with revenue is the part worth noticing.
Improved: +3.1 pts
26.1% to 29.2%Significant
Why it matters: What survives each sale before overheads. Falling gross margin usually means the company is discounting or its input costs rose — it is the earliest place pricing pressure shows.
Improved: +38.6%
$116.0M to $160.7MSignificant
Why it matters: A falling cash pile is only a warning if the company is consuming it. Paying down debt, buying back stock and paying a dividend all reduce cash by choice.
Improved: +11.2%
$1.55B to $1.72BNotable
Why it matters: Sales are what everything else is built on. A fall can be lost customers, lower prices, or a business the company sold — the filing itself says which.
2 other measures barely moved. Figures compare the two most recent annual filings — read the latest one. Moves are graded on fixed lines — 5%, 15% and 40% for amounts, and 1, 3 and 8 points for margins — as notable, significant or critical. Nothing here reads the management commentary, which is where a company explains its own numbers.
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Discounted at 8%–10% a year, with growth settling to 2.5% after 10 years. Those rates are ordinary choices, not measurements: across that range the assumed growth works out between 3% and 7%. This describes what the price implies — it is not a forecast, and not a view on whether the price is right.
Opinions from 18 analysts covering this company, as of . Their views, not this site's.
Of 18 analysts publishing on this company, 8 say strong buy, 8 say buy and 2 say hold. Analysts are paid to publish a view and are wrong often; the split above says how much they agree with each other, which is the part a single headline rating hides.
Published by Finnhub. Analyst coverage skews towards larger companies and towards optimism — sell ratings are rare across the whole market, so a company with none is ordinary rather than endorsed.
Measured on and published about a week later — this is a fortnightly snapshot, not a live position.
About 3.4% of this company's shares have been borrowed and sold by people expecting to buy them back cheaper. That is a bet the price falls. Those people can be wrong, and when a heavily shorted share rises they have to buy it back, which pushes it up further.
Collected by FINRA from broker-dealers twice a month. It counts positions, not intentions, and some of it is hedging rather than a directional bet against the company.
Nothing in this section is a figure this company reported about itself. These are expectations and positions — what the price implies, what analysts have published, what short sellers are betting, and what large funds held at the last count. WylthIQ reports them; it does not endorse them, does not forecast prices, and takes no view on whether any of them will turn out to be right.
The trailing P/E is 15.9x — investors pay $15.9 for each $1 of trailing profit.
This company has not reported enough of the required figures to calculate this score.
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| Median of peers | 6.5/10 | — | 5.7% | 4.6% | 26.23x | 1.55x |
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Peers come from the company's industry classification. A difference describes the companies; it does not rank them.
Had shares withheld to cover taxes — 3,330 shares at $67.88 ($226.0K)
Holds 80,706 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 2,598 shares at $67.88 ($176.4K)
Holds 78,108 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 3,876 shares at $67.87 ($263.1K)
Holds 74,232 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,000 shares at $67.27 ($67.3K)
Holds 18,969 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,000 shares at $63.26 ($316.3K)
Holds 1,143,467 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 5,000 shares at $64.79 ($324.0K)
Holds 1,138,467 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 8,000 shares at $67.09 ($536.7K)
Holds 35,777 shares after this filing.
Sold on the open market — 1,591 shares at $63.05 ($100.3K)
Holds 35,087 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 500 shares at $60.67 ($30.3K)
Holds 51,190 shares after this filing.
Bought on the open market — 500 shares at $61.27 ($30.6K)
Holds 51,690 shares after this filing.
Notice filed ahead of a planned sale — the sale itself has not necessarily happened yet.
Filed notice to sell 5,000 shares ($338.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Option Exercise.
Filed notice to sell 1,000 shares ($67.5K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Employee Stock Award.
Filed notice to sell 6,469 shares ($436.7K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Stock Option Exercise (granted on 1/29/2019, 1/29/2020 and 1/29/2021)).
Filed notice to sell 8,000 shares ($525.9K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Compensation.
Filed notice to sell 10,000 shares ($623.6K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Option Exercise and PSUs.
Filed notice to sell 1,591 shares ($100.3K) on or after .
Shares originally obtained via Employee Stock Award.
Not investment advice, and not a signal to act on by itself — a filing says what happened, not why, and insiders trade for ordinary reasons having nothing to do with where they think the company is headed.
Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Published results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHeld a shareholder vote
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q1 FY2026
Revenue +12.3% · Operating margin +12.6 pts · Operating income +698.5% — against Q1 FY2025
Read the filingPublished results · Made a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingProxy statement for a shareholder meeting
Read the filingAnnual report for FY2026
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingMade a Regulation FD disclosure
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q3 FY2025
Revenue +10.0% · Gross profit +23.4% · Operating income +19.3% — against Q3 FY2024
Read the filingPublished results
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingHad a director or senior officer leave or join
Read the filingQuarterly report for Q2 FY2025
Operating margin −5.1 pts · Operating income -48.9% · Profit -83.9% — against Q2 FY2024
Read the filingThe first 40 of 149. The rest are in the exhibit.
Source: Exhibit 21 of the 10-K filed 2026-03-03. These are legal entities, not brands or acquisitions — a company that bought a business may hold it inside an entity named here, or inside one small enough that the rule does not require naming it at all.
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