Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $32.99, with 4.38 million shares of worth about $144.65 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained negative as price took a plunge of -8.97% during that period and on June 12, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 4.80%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 158.16M shares, out of which, 155.77M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 8.45% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -10.01%. Year-to-date (YTD), DAR shares are showing a performance of -2.08% which decreased to -12.93% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $26.00 but also hit the highest price of $43.49 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Darling Ingredients Inc shares is 2.22 million. The stock is currently trading 2.93% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.81% for SMA50 and it goes to -6.75% lower than SMA200.
Darling Ingredients Inc (NYSE: DAR) currently have 158.16M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 105.95% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $5.22B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.19. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 31.10, while it has posted earnings per share of $1.06 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.03 and has Quick Ratio of 0.83 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 0.93. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DAR, volatility over the week remained 3.51% while standing at 2.74% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) stock would likely to be making an EPS of 0.35 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is 0.56 and it is 2.89 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target 0.15 which is 0.47 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of 0.29 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to drop by -8.32% while it is estimated to increase by 105.87% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 30.29% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of -1.43% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by TD Cowen on April 25, 2025 offering a Hold rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $37 and $34 to it. Coverage by TD Cowen stated Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) stock as a Hold in their note to investors on April 04, 2025, suggesting a price target of $37 for the stock. On September 13, 2024, TD Cowen Reiterated their recommendations, while on June 12, 2024, Citigroup Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $48. Stock get a Neutral rating from Citigroup on February 01, 2024.
