Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) is -6.50% lower on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $26.00 and a high of $43.49 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will make a comeback and enjoy potential growth. Why not look at analysts view on what the future holds for the stock. The DAR stock was last observed hovering at around $33.82 in the last trading session, with the day’s loss setting it -2.32%.
Currently trading at $31.50, the stock is -5.85% and 0.19% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.39 million and changing -6.86% at the moment leaves the stock -12.23% off its SMA200. DAR registered -27.47% loss for a year compared to 6-month loss of -26.83%. The firm has a 50-day simple moving average (SMA 50) of $31.4396 and a 200-day simple moving average (SMA200) of $35.88765.
The stock witnessed a 2.74% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a -20.37%, and is -14.59% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 4.69% over the week and 4.06% over the month.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) has around 15500 employees, a market worth around $4.98B and $5.68B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 29.69 and Fwd P/E is 9.54. Profit margin for the company is 3.02%. Distance from 52-week low is 21.15% and -27.57% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (2.04%).
The EPS is expected to shrink by -7.38% this year
705.0 institutions hold shares in Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR), with institutional investors hold 110.12% of the company’s shares. The shares outstanding are 158.16M, and float is at 155.85M with Short Float at 6.84%. Institutions hold 108.83% of the Float.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 15.37 million shares valued at $564.81 million. The investor’s holdings represent 9.6167 of the DAR Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 14.66 million shares valued at $538.93 million to account for 9.1761 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are GRANTHAM, MAYO, VAN OTTERLOO & CO. LLC which holds 6.22 million shares representing 3.8942 and valued at over $228.71 million, while DIMENSIONAL FUND ADVISORS LP holds 3.2767 of the shares totaling 5.24 million with a market value of $192.45 million.
Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by STUEWE RANDALL C, the company’s Chairman and CEO. SEC filings show that STUEWE RANDALL C sold 40,000 shares of the company’s common stock on May 19 ’25 at a price of $34.05 per share for a total of $1.36 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.85 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Nov 19 ’24, STUEWE RANDALL C (Chairman and CEO) disposed off 24,710 shares at an average price of $41.95 for $1.04 million. The insider now directly holds 693,848 shares of Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR).
