Darling Ingredients
About: Darling Ingredients Inc develops and manufactures sustainable ingredients for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, fuel, and fertilizer industries. It collects and transforms all aspects of animal by-product streams into ingredients, including gelatin, fats, proteins, pet food ingredients, fertilizers. Also, the company recovers and converts used cooking oil and bakery remnants into feed and fuel ingredients. Darling has three primary business segments which are feed ingredients contributing the majority of revenue, food ingredients, and fuel ingredients. It provides grease trap services for food businesses and sells various equipment for collecting and delivering cooking oil. The company derives the majority of its revenue from customers in North America.
Employees: 15,500
Fund manager confidence
Based on 2025 Q2 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
103% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $157M | Put options by funds: $77M
54% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 83 | Existing positions closed: 54
25% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 8 [Q1] → 10 (+2) [Q2]
24% more capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.04B [Q1] → $6.24B (+$1.2B) [Q2]
4% more funds holding
Funds holding: 461 [Q1] → 480 (+19) [Q2]
2.16% more ownership
Funds ownership: 101.89% [Q1] → 104.05% (+2.16%) [Q2]
1% more repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 167 | Existing positions reduced: 166
Research analyst outlook
4 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
4 analyst ratings
JP Morgan Thomas Palmer | 25%upside $43 | Overweight Assumed | 20 Aug 2025 |
Piper Sandler Ryan Todd | 45%upside $50 | Overweight Maintained | 28 Jul 2025 |
Baird Ben Kallo | 5%upside $36 | Neutral Downgraded | 25 Jul 2025 |
Jefferies Lloyd Byrne | 34%upside $46 | Buy Maintained | 7 Jul 2025 |
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