Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) has a beta value of 1.23 and has seen 0.44 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $4.87B, closed the recent trade at $30.81 per share which meant it gained $0.15 on the day or 0.49% during that session. The DAR stock price is -53.46% off its 52-week high price of $47.28 and 15.61% above the 52-week low of $26.00. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 2.17 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.31 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.27. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 1 out of 3 have rated it as a Hold, with 2 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight. The expected earnings per share for the stock is 0.16.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) trade information
Sporting 0.49% in the green today, the stock has traded in the green over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the DAR stock price touched $30.81 or saw a rise of 1.6%. Year-to-date, Darling Ingredients Inc shares have moved -8.55%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change 4.41%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) have changed 3.15%. Short interest in the company has seen 9.69 million shares shorted with days to cover at 4.34.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $60, which means that the shares’ value could jump 48.65% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $47.0 while the price target rests at a high of $103.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -234.31% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -52.55% from the levels at last check today..
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -19.60% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 4.12%.
9 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.46B for the current quarter. 9 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.49B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.42B and 1.46B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 2.68% for the current quarter and 4.12% for the next.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was -1.43% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 22.35% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 29.38%.
DAR Dividends
Darling Ingredients Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Feb-05 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR)’s Major holders
Insiders own 1.14% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 110.05% with a share float percentage of 111.32%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Darling Ingredients Inc having a total of 687.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 15.37 million shares worth more than $564.81 million. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.6167% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 14.66 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $538.93 million and represent 9.1761% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.29% shares in the company for having 5.2 shares of worth $160.2 million while later fund manager owns 5.01 shares of worth $154.47 million as of Dec 31, 2024 , which makes it owner of about 3.17% of company’s outstanding stock.
