In recent trading session, Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) saw 0.91 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 1.26. Company’s recent per share price level of $33.92 trading at -$2.96 or -8.03% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $5.36B. That most recent trading price of DAR’s stock is at a discount of -32.55% from its 52-week high price of $44.96 and is indicating a premium of 23.35% from its 52-week low price of $26.00. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 2.14 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 2.35 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 1.27. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 3 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 1 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 2 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -8.03%, in the last five days DAR remained trading in the green while hitting it’s week-highest on Wednesday, 05/14/25 when the stock touched $33.92 price level, adding 8.87% to its value on the day. Darling Ingredients Inc’s shares saw a change of 0.68% in year-to-date performance and have moved 0.21% in past 5-day. Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) showed a performance of 14.94% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 10.67 million shares which calculate 4.16 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 60 to the stock, which implies a rise of 43.47% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 47 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 103. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -38.56% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -38.56% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of -1.43% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around -7.38% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 31.89%.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 1.17% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 108.52 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 109.81%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 108.52% institutions for Darling Ingredients Inc that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at DAR for having 15.37 million shares of worth $564.81 million. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.6167 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 14.66 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 9.1761 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $538.93 million.
On the other hand, iShares Trust-iShares Core S&P Mid-Cap ETF and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 5.2 shares of worth $178.52 million or 3.28% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 5.01 shares on Dec 31, 2024 , making its stake of worth around $172.13 million in the company or a holder of 3.17% of company’s stock.
