Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) went down -4.61% yesterday: Is this the Most Sought-After Stock Today?

Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) started the day on Wednesday, with a price decrease of -4.61% at $33.69, before settling in for the price of $35.32 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, DAR posted a 52-week range of $32.67-$51.12.

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It was noted that the giant of the Consumer Defensive sector posted annual sales growth of 15.82% over the last 5 years. Meanwhile, its Annual Earning per share during the time was 45.84%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is -58.08%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $159.04 million, simultaneously with a float of $157.21 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $5.36 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $38.64, while the 200-day Moving Average is $39.69.

Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Ownership Facts and Figures

Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Packaged Foods Industry. Darling Ingredients Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 1.15%, in contrast to 101.65% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on Nov 19 ’24, this organization’s Chairman and CEO sold 24,710 shares at the rate of 41.95, making the entire transaction reach 1,036,585 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 693,848. Preceding that transaction, on Nov 18 ’24, Company’s Chairman and CEO sold 290 for 43.00, making the whole transaction’s value amount to 12,470. This particular insider is now the holder of 718,558 in total.

Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Earnings and Revenue Records

Darling Ingredients Inc’s EPS decrease for this current 12-month fiscal period is -58.08% and is forecasted to reach 3.05 in the upcoming year. Considering the longer run, market analysts have predicted that Company’s EPS will increase by 35.00% through the next 5 years, which can be compared against the 45.84% growth it accomplished over the previous five years trading on the market.

Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) Trading Performance Indicators

Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 0.83. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 1.70. Alongside those numbers, its PE Ratio stands at $20.85, and its Beta score is 1.19. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 0.91. Similarly, its price to free cash flow for trailing twelve months is now 11.45.

In the same vein, DAR’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded 1.62, a figure that is expected to reach 0.64 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 3.05 at the market close of one year from today.

Technical Analysis of Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR)

If we take a close look at the recent performances of Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR), its last 5-days Average volume was 2.16 million that shows plunge from its year to date volume of 2.2 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 23.30% While, its Average True Range was 1.77.

Raw Stochastic average of Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 9.43%, which indicates a major fall in contrast to 9.78% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 43.79% that was higher than 43.09% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.