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 2024 Q4 regulatory disclosures by fund managers ($100M+ AUM)
68% more call options, than puts
Call options by funds: $126M | Put options by funds: $75.2M
67% more funds holding in top 10
Funds holding in top 10: 3 [Q3] → 5 (+2) [Q4]
7.24% more ownership
Funds ownership: 96.87% [Q3] → 104.12% (+7.24%) [Q4]
6% more first-time investments, than exits
New positions opened: 74 | Existing positions closed: 70
1% less funds holding
Funds holding: 461 [Q3] → 457 (-4) [Q4]
3% less capital invested
Capital invested by funds: $5.73B [Q3] → $5.58B (-$149M) [Q4]
22% less repeat investments, than reductions
Existing positions increased: 143 | Existing positions reduced: 183
Research analyst outlook
2 Wall Street Analysts provided 1 year price targets over the past 3 months
2 analyst ratings
Baird Ben Kallo 53% 1-year accuracy 21 / 40 met price target | 24%upside $40 | Outperform Maintained | 25 Apr 2025 |
Citigroup Thomas Palmer 41% 1-year accuracy 12 / 29 met price target | 37%upside $44 | Buy Maintained | 15 Apr 2025 |
Financial journalist opinion
Based on 9 articles about DAR published over the past 30 days
