A new trading day began on Monday, with Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) stock price up 1.02% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $39.40. DAR’s price has ranged from $32.67 to $51.36 over the past 52 weeks.
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It was noted that within the last five years, the titan of the Consumer Defensive sector saw sales topped by 15.82%. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged -56.92%. With a float of $157.05 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $159.53 million.
The extent of productivity of a business whose workforce counts for 15800 workers is very important to gauge. In terms of profitability, gross margin is -294.54%, operating margin of 25.87%, and the pretax margin is 21.52%.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Insider Updates
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. The insider ownership of Darling Ingredients Inc is 1.24%, while institutional ownership is 98.19%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Aug 16 ’24, was worth 51,805. In this transaction EVP Chief Admin Officer of this company bought 1,300 shares at a rate of $39.85, taking the stock ownership to the 21,867 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Jul 31 ’24, when Company’s EVP Chief Strategy Officer bought 2,532 for $39.37, making the entire transaction worth $99,685. This insider now owns 12,607 shares in total.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Performance Highlights and Predictions
In its latest quarterly report, released on 9/30/2024, the company reported earnings of 0.52 per share, which was $0.1 lower than the consensus estimate of $0.26. In terms of return on equity, this company recorded -19.55% in contrast with 50.0% return on Investment (trailing twelve months). Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.62 per share during the current fiscal year.
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -56.92% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 30.00% during the next five years compared to 45.84% growth over the previous five years of trading.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Darling Ingredients Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 0.91. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.08. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 16.30.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.62, a number that is poised to hit 0.65 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.12 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR)
The latest stats from [Darling Ingredients Inc, DAR] show that its last 5-days average volume of 1.73 million was inferior to 2.15 million than last year’s volume. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 65.26%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.32.
During the past 100 days, Darling Ingredients Inc’s (DAR) raw stochastic average was set at 76.71%, which indicates a significant decrease from 79.20% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 26.64% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 40.65% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $37.56, while its 200-day Moving Average is $40.26. Now, the first resistance to watch is $40.25. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $40.71. The third major resistance level sits at $41.02. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $39.48, it is likely to go to the next support level at $39.17. Assuming the price breaks the second support level, the third support level stands at $38.71.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 6.38 billion, the company has a total of 159,024K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 6,788 M while annual income is 647,730 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 1,422 M while its latest quarter income was 16,950 K.
