Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) on Monday, plunged -4.06% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $39.45. Within the past 52 weeks, DAR’s price has moved between $26.00 and $43.49.
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During the last 5-year period, the sales drop of Consumer Defensive Sector giant was -1.43%. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of -16.16%. With a float of $156.10 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $158.16 million.
Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 15500 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 13.42%, operating margin of 7.47%, and the pretax margin is 1.95%.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Insider Activity
Observing investor behavior towards Packaged Foods industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Darling Ingredients Inc is 1.30%, while institutional ownership is 105.18%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on May 19 ’25, was worth 1,362,000. In this transaction Chairman and CEO of this company sold 40,000 shares at a rate of $34.05, taking the stock ownership to the 851,437 shares. Before that another transaction happened on May 19 ’25, when Company’s CEO proposed sale 40,000 for $35.25, making the entire transaction worth $1,410,000.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around -16.16% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 31.30% during the next five years compared to -1.43% drop over the previous five years of trading.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) Trading Performance Indicators
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.83 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 1.05. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 11.45.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 1.06, a number that is poised to hit 0.33 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 3.52 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR)
Looking closely at Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR), its last 5-days average volume was 2.42 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 2.41 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 76.54%.
During the past 100 days, Darling Ingredients Inc’s (DAR) raw stochastic average was set at 73.37%, which indicates a significant increase from 37.04% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 40.45% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 47.93% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $34.28, while its 200-day Moving Average is $35.40. However, in the short run, Darling Ingredients Inc’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $38.73. Second resistance stands at $39.61. The third major resistance level sits at $40.07. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $37.39, it is likely to go to the next support level at $36.93. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $36.05.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) Key Stats
Market capitalization of the company is 5.99 billion based on 158,159K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 5,715 M and income totals 278,880 K. The company made 1,381 M in profit during its latest quarter, and -26,160 K in sales during its previous quarter.
