Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) has a beta value of 1.22 and has seen 1.56 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $5.96B, closed the recent trade at $37.71 per share which meant it lost -$0.91 on the day or -2.37% during that session. The DAR stock price is -15.33% off its 52-week high price of $43.49 and 31.05% 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 3.56 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 2.44 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.29. 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 0.35.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) trade information
Sporting -2.37% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the DAR stock price touched $37.71 or saw a rise of 4.46%. Year-to-date, Darling Ingredients Inc shares have moved 5.59%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -2.42%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE:DAR) have changed 19.55%. Short interest in the company has seen 9.45 million shares shorted with days to cover at 4.41.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $60, which means that the shares’ value could jump 37.15% 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 -173.14% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -24.64% from the levels at last check today..
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 12.12% over the past 6 months. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be 3.17%.
8 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of 1.49B for the current quarter. 8 have an estimated revenue figure of 1.49B for the next ending quarter. Year-ago sales stood 1.46B and 1.42B respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will grow by 2.67% for the current quarter and 3.17% 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 -7.82% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 30.29%.
DAR Dividends
Darling Ingredients Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-24 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 1.17% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 107.60% with a share float percentage of 108.88%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Darling Ingredients Inc having a total of 699.0 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 Apr 30, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.26% shares in the company for having 5.15 shares of worth $193.93 million while later fund manager owns 5.03 shares of worth $189.59 million as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 3.18% of company’s outstanding stock.
