Darling Ingredients Inc.

Darling Ingredients Inc. develops, produces, and sells natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients. The company operates through three segments: Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients, and Fuel Ingredients. It offers ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy, and fertilizer industries. The company also collects and transforms various animal by-product streams into useable and specialty ingredients, such as collagen, edible fats, feed-grade fats, animal proteins and meals, plasma, pet food ingredients, organic fertilizers, yellow grease, fuel feedstock, green energy, natural casings, and hides. In addition, it recovers and converts used cooking oil and animal fats, and residual bakery products into valuable feed and fuel ingredients. Further, the company provides environmental services, including grease trap collection and disposal services to food service establishments. It primarily operates under the Sonac, Dar Pro, Rothsay, Rousselot, Nature Safe, CleanStar, Peptan, Cookie Meal, Bakery Feeds, Ecoson, and Rendac brand names in North America, Europe, China, South America, Australia, and internationally. The company was formerly known as Darling International Inc. and changed its name to Darling Ingredients Inc. in May 2014. Darling Ingredients Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Irving, Texas.

Darling Ingredients Inc. trades as DAR on NYSE. The company is classified in Consumer Defensive / Packaged Foods and reports in USD.

The current profile places the business in Packaged Foods. This section is intended to summarize the operating segments, products, geographies, and main revenue lines from official filings.

Latest available fiscal data shows $6.14B of revenue and $62.80M of net income.

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Darling Ingredients Inc. can be compared against peers such as BellRing Brands, Inc., Campbell Soup Company, General Mills, Inc., The Hain Celestial Group, Inc., Hormel Foods Corporation, Ingredion Incorporated.

A complete thesis should compare growth, margins, balance-sheet risk, valuation multiples, and market position against direct competitors.

Current signals to investigate include market capitalization of $9.45B, beta of 1.07, and return on equity of +1.3%.

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DAR currently shows total debt of $4.16B and beta of 1.07. Missing data should be treated as a research gap, not as low risk.

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Recent filings to review: 4/A (2026-05-14 00:00:00), 8-K (2026-05-11 00:00:00), 4 (2026-05-08 00:00:00), 4 (2026-05-08 00:00:00).

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Company website: https://www.darlingii.com

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