Insider buying last 90 days
No open-market insider purchases were filed for DAR in the last 90 days.
From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.
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Darling Ingredients (DAR) Stock Analysis & Forecast
Sep 28 close
$60.59−0.70 (−1.1%)
Gekko Brief
AI summaryDarling Ingredients drew repeated attention this week from UBS, whose analyst Manav Gupta reiterated a Buy rating and raised the price target to $88.00 from $78, citing record second-quarter 2026 adjusted EBITDA of $742 million and what UBS called a supportive earnings backdrop from stronger renewable diesel economics. Separate coverage noted the stock crossing above its 200-day moving average near $61.93, a "Moderate Buy" consensus with an average target of $69.91, and commentary framing shares as undervalued relative to earnings power and a P/E of 16.3x versus food-industry peers.
Shares closed at $60.59, down 1.1%, sitting between the 50-day average of $63.67 and the 200-day average of $55.70. The GekkoIndex reads 66.7, placing DAR in the Accumulation zone, up 6.1 over five days. The stock trades 20.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $76.5.
Over the next 20 trading days, the earnings date of 22 October falls inside that window, with the last report on 30 July showing EPS of $2.41 against a $1.45 estimate and a 3.4% reaction; the average absolute move after results has been 5.5%. In the last 30 days there has been 1 unusual options signal, with call premium of $1,461,922 versus $0 in puts. Seasonally, the next 20 trading days have averaged +2.6% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them. Analyst consensus across 6 firms shows 5 buys, 1 hold, and a consensus target of $81.58.
Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.
Darling Ingredients price vs fair value
Close $60.59200-day averageGekko Fair Value $76.50
Darling Ingredients quick facts
- Market cap
- $9.63B
- P/E ratio
- 16.5
- Forward P/E
- 11.7
- EPS, TTM
- $3.72
- Revenue, TTM
- $6.55B
- Profit margin
- 9.1%
- Dividend yield
- —
- Beta
- 1.03
- Volume
- 2.10M avg 2.37M
- 1-year return
- +92.8%
- Typical daily move
- ±3.7%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±7.7%
- 50-day average
- $63.67
- 200-day average
- $55.70
- Next earnings
- Oct 22 before open
- Shares outstanding
- 157.8M
Darling Ingredients swing-trade checklist
Darling Ingredients scores 4 supportive, 1 mixed and 1 headwind across the 6 checklist items with data.
Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.
4 supportive1 mixed1 headwind
- Trendmixed
Averages disagree
Close $60.59 sits between the 50-day ($63.67) and 200-day ($55.70) averages, or the averages disagree.
See the chart - GekkoIndexsupportive
66.7, Accumulation
Reading 66.7 is in the Accumulation zone.
See the GekkoIndex - Fair valuesupportive
20.8% below
Price is 20.8% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).
See fair value - Smart moneysupportive
Leans bullish
Last 30 days: 1 unusual options signal.
See smart money - Earnings riskheadwind
Reports in 23 days
Reports on Oct 22, 2026, 23 days away — inside a typical 20-trading-day hold.
See earnings - Seasonalitysupportive
+2.6% on average
From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +2.6% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
See seasonality
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Darling Ingredients stock chart and price history
Darling Ingredients closed at $60.59 on Sep 28, 2026, +92.8% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $29.15 to $69.98.
Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
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Performance Breakdown
- 1 month
- −1.3%
- 3 months
- +14.0%
- 6 months
- +2.2%
- 1 year
- +92.8%
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About Darling Ingredients
Darling Ingredients turns organic material, both edible and inedible, into ingredients used across a wide range of industries. It takes animal by-products and recycled food waste and reworks them into things like collagen, fats, proteins, pet food components, fertilizer and fuel feedstock, supplying sectors from pharmaceuticals and human food to animal feed, industrial manufacturing and bioenergy. The company is also known for services such as grease trap collection and disposal for restaurants and other food service businesses.
The business is organized around three areas: feed ingredients, food ingredients and fuel ingredients. It sources raw material streams such as used cooking oil, animal fats and bakery leftovers, converting them into higher-value feed and fuel products, and markets its output under a range of brand names spanning collagen, protein, fertilizer and rendering operations. Its customer base spans food, feed, fuel and industrial manufacturing sectors, and it operates across North America, Europe, China, South America, Australia and other regions.
Darling Ingredients traces back to 1882 and operated for many years as Darling International before adopting its current name in 2014. It is headquartered in Irving, Texas, and its shares are listed on the NYSE under the ticker DAR.
- Listed
- NYSE
- Sector
- Consumer non-durables
- Industry
- Food: specialty/candy
- Website
- darlingii.com
Darling Ingredients GekkoIndex: the smart money zone
Darling Ingredients’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 66.7, in the Accumulation zone, up 6.1 points over five sessions.
66.7Accumulation
Up 6.1 points over five sessions.
Reading for Sep 28, 2026
What followed past readings in each zone
| Zone | Readings | 5 days | 20 days | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buying | 49 | +1.7% | +5.5% | ||
| Accumulation (current zone) | 206 | +0.8% | +3.8% | ||
| Neutral | 362 | 0.0% | −0.4% | ||
| Distribution | 54 | +1.0% | +6.2% | ||
| Selling | 1 | Too few readings yet | |||
Average DAR share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.
Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →
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Is Darling Ingredients stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value
Darling Ingredients trades 20.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $76.50, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.
Gekko’s own estimate of what Darling Ingredients shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.
$76.50
Gekko Fair Value, Sep 29, 2026
20.8% Undervalued
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Darling Ingredients insider and Congress trading
No open-market insider purchases were filed for Darling Ingredients, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.
Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.
Congress trades last 90 days
No trades in DAR were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.
From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.
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Buybacks
Darling Ingredients has been buying back its own shares.
- Latest authorization
- $1.00B, Aug 5, 2026
- Bought back, quarter ended Jul 4, 2026
- $73.40M
- As a share of market cap
- 0.76%
From company filings.
Unusual options activity last 30 days
1signal, 100% of the flagged premium in calls.
Latest: Bullish flow on Aug 29, $1.46M in unusual premium.
Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30
1of the funds Gekko tracks holds DAR.
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Darling Ingredients earnings: next date and track record
Darling Ingredients reports on Oct 22, 2026, before the open (23 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports.
Next earnings report
Oct 22, 2026
Expected before the open, 23 days away
- EPS estimate
- $1.86
- Revenue estimate
- $1.78B
4 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±5.5%average move across the report
7 of 8reports followed by a gain
Share-price move across each report
Last earnings call, Jul 30, 2026 AI summary
- What they said
- Darling Ingredients reported Q2 2026 net income of $387M ($2.41 diluted EPS) versus $13M ($0.08) a year ago. Net sales reached $1.7B, up from $1.5B. Combined adjusted EBITDA was $742M, with $353M from global ingredients and $389M from Diamond Green Diesel, which sold ~350M gallons at $2.23 EBITDA/gallon. The company reduced debt by $223M, repurchased $73M in stock, and acquired Brazil's Potenze rendering facilities.
- Guidance
- Management noted Q2 outperformed April guidance due to strengthening fat/protein markets and favorable trade developments. Randy Stuewe indicated he would provide Q3 outlook in prepared remarks, signaling continued confidence in operational momentum and cash generation consistency across market conditions.
| Reported | EPS | Revenue | Move |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $2.41 est $1.45 | $1.72B est $1.71B | +3.4% |
| Apr 30, 2026 | $0.83 est $0.56 | $1.55B est $1.56B | +1.5% |
| Feb 11, 2026 | $0.64 est $0.43 | $1.71B est $1.53B | +3.3% |
| Oct 23, 2025 | $0.12 est $0.13 | $1.56B est $1.53B | +11.0% |
| Jul 24, 2025 | $0.09 est $0.12 | $1.48B est $1.52B | −6.9% |
| Apr 24, 2025 | −$0.16 est $0.20 | $1.38B est $1.46B | +5.1% |
| Feb 6, 2025 | $0.63 est $0.35 | $1.25B est $1.46B | +10.3% |
| Oct 24, 2024 | $0.11 est $0.40 | $1.42B est $1.50B | +2.2% |
“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.
Darling Ingredients stock forecast and analyst price targets
Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Darling Ingredients is $81.58, +34.6% from the last close, from 6 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.
$81.58consensus 12-month target, +34.6% from the last close
Now $60.59Avg $81.58
Low $65High $90
Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 6 firms.
Latest analyst actions
| Date | Firm | Target | vs price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28 | UBS | $88 | +45.2% |
| Sep 22 | UBS | $88 | +45.2% |
| Sep 10 | Barclays | $65 | +7.3% |
| Jul 31 | Bank of America Securities | $90 | +48.5% |
| Jul 31 | BMO Capital | $80 | +32.0% |
+3.8%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+2.6%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±3.7%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range
Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.
Darling Ingredients seasonality: the next 20 trading days
Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 26, Darling Ingredients averaged +2.6% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.
Next 20 trading days, by year
Average move and hit rate
| Window | Average | Years higher |
|---|---|---|
| Next 5 trading days | −1.6% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 10 trading days | −1.1% | 2 of 5 |
| Next 15 trading days | +1.4% | 3 of 5 |
| Next 20 trading days | +2.6% | 4 of 5 |
| Next 30 trading days | +5.3% | 4 of 5 |
For scale, DAR’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 7.7%.
Darling Ingredients market cap and key statistics
Darling Ingredients’s market cap is $9.63B, with a P/E ratio of 16.5 and revenue of $6.55B over the last twelve months.
Valuation
- Market cap
- $9.63B
- P/E ratio
- 16.5
- Forward P/E
- 11.7
- EPS, TTM
- $3.72
- Gekko Fair Value
- $76.50
Trading
- Volume
- 2.10M
- Avg volume, 20 days
- 2.37M
- 52-week high
- $69.98
- 52-week low
- $29.15
- Shares outstanding
- 157.8M
Financials
- Revenue, TTM
- $6.55B
- Profit margin
- 9.1%
- Return on equity
- 12.1%
- Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
- +2,914.0%
Risk and income
- Beta
- 1.03
- Typical daily move
- ±3.7%
- Typical 20-day move
- ±7.7%
Darling Ingredients stock news this week
Coverage of Darling Ingredients this week reads positive: 7 positive, 1 neutral and 1 negative headlines.
- UBS Reiterates Buy Rating on Darling Ingredients (DAR)StreetInsider, Sep 28
- Darling Ingredients (NYSE:DAR) Stock Breaks Above Two Hundred Day Moving Average - Here's WhyMarketBeat, Sep 26
- Darling Ingredients (DAR) As Renewable Diesel Policy Hopes Shape An Undervalued ViewSimply Wall Street, Sep 25
- Here's Why Darling Ingredients (DAR) is a Strong Momentum StockZacks Investment Research, Sep 25
- Darling Ingredients stock rises as UBS lifts target to USD 88AD HOC NEWS, Sep 23
- Darling Ingredients (DAR) Stock May Be Undervalued On Earnings PowerSimply Wall Street, Sep 23
Darling Ingredients peers
Darling Ingredients’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.
| Stock | GekkoIndex zone | vs Fair Value |
|---|---|---|
| PEPPepsiCo | Buying | 17.5% below |
| MDLZMondelez International | Accumulation | 19.9% below |
| HSYHershey | Buying | 30.4% below |
| IFFInternational Flavors & Fragrances | Neutral | 2.9% below |
| MKCMcCormick | Accumulation | 15.4% below |
| SJMJ.M. Smucker | Accumulation | 7.5% above |
A peer links to its own page where one exists.
Darling Ingredients stock FAQ
What is Darling Ingredients’s market cap?
Darling Ingredients’s market cap is $9.63B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $60.59, with 157.8M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 16.5.
What is the Darling Ingredients stock forecast?
The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Darling Ingredients is $81.58, +34.6% from the last close. Of the 6 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 5 rate it a buy, 1 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.
Is Darling Ingredients stock overvalued or undervalued?
On Gekko’s estimate Darling Ingredients is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $60.59 is 20.8% below Gekko Fair Value of $76.50. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.
When does Darling Ingredients report earnings next?
Darling Ingredients is expected to report on Oct 22, 2026, before the market opens (23 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $1.86 per share on revenue of $1.78B. Darling Ingredients beat the earnings estimate in 4 of its last 8 reports, moving 5.5% on average across the report.
What is Darling Ingredients’s 52-week high and low?
Darling Ingredients’s 52-week high is $69.98 and its 52-week low is $29.15; it closed at $60.59 on Sep 28, 2026, +92.8% over the past year. Over the last five years the shares peaked at $87.59 on Jun 7, 2022.
Is Darling Ingredients stock a buy right now?
Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 6 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, smart money and seasonality), 1 as mixed (trend) and 1 as a headwind (earnings risk). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.
Is there unusual options activity in Darling Ingredients?
Gekko flagged 1 unusual options signal in Darling Ingredients over the last 30 days, with $1.46M of flagged premium in calls and $0 in puts. The latest, bullish flow, was on Aug 29, 2026 with $1.46M in unusual premium. The signal-by-signal table is in Gekko.
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