“Adjusted EBITDA is calculated below and represents for any relevant period, net income/(loss) plus depreciation and amortization, restructuring and asset impairment charges, acquisition and integration costs, change in fair value of contingent consideration,…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
Darling Ingredients Inc.
DAR
Market read
Darling Ingredients Inc.'s current read is isolated; its market group is not confirming.
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 13 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 9 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 16.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Three-month results benefited from higher fat and protein prices, improved quality and consistency, and sales into higher-margin end markets.
Invalidation: The isolated read changes if DAR's group or a disclosed connection begins moving with it.
Research brief
The story so far
The latest filing evidence is available. 0 of 13 group members are active now; 0 filing-linked outsiders are moving with the group, and 0 of 9 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- Revenue increased 16.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 27.1 percentage points.
- Net income increased 2959.1% versus the comparable filing period.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- Three-month results benefited from higher fat and protein prices, improved quality and consistency, and sales into higher-margin end markets.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +7.4% year over year.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 16.87x in the latest annual period.
- Operating margin changed -3.7 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Net margin changed -3.9 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated adverse evidence across 5 filings.
- Restructuring and cost reductions has repeated adverse evidence across 4 filings.
- P/E is 1814% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
- EV/sales is 60% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 9, 2026
67.51Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Total net sales increased in the Fuel Ingredients segment primarily due to higher energy prices.”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“These new or increasingly stringent legal or regulatory requirements could result in significantly increased costs of compliance and additional investments in facilities and equipment, and reduced raw material supplies in areas where these requirements limit…”10-Q · Aug 7, 2026 ↗
“These new or increasingly stringent legal or regulatory requirements could result in significantly increased costs 32 of compliance and additional investments in facilities and equipment, and reduced raw material supplies in areas where these requirements lim…”10-Q · May 8, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 1.8× · EV/sales 1.7×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 10 Sept, 14:55 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for DAR. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Latest filing assessment
Fundamentals strengthened in the latest filing
10-Q filed 2026-08-07 against the comparable filing from 2025-08-06.
Capital and cash conversion
Reported investment and cash context
- Stock compensation / revenue
- +1.0%
- Inventory intensity change
- -5.7 pts
Capex, revenue, and operating cash flow are matched to the same reported duration. Reported accounting context, not a forecast or trading recommendation.
What improved
- Revenue increased 16.4% versus the comparable filing period.
- Operating margin improved 27.1 percentage points.
- Net income increased 2959.1% versus the comparable filing period.
What weakened
No thresholded deterioration was identified.
Filing receipts
“The increase was primarily due to increases in fat and protein prices, improved quality and consistency, and increased sales into higher-margin end markets.”
“The increase in operating income was primarily due to the recognition of approximately $18.5 million of net tariff recoveries recorded and an increase in sales volumes due to increased market demand during the three months ended July 4, 2026 that more than offset an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as compared to the same period of fiscal 2025.”
“The increase in operating income was primarily due to an increase in sales volumes due to increased market demand and the recognition of approximately $18.5 million of net tariff recoveries recorded in the second quarter of fiscal 2026 that more than offset an increase in selling, general and administrative expenses as compared to the same period of fiscal 2025.”
Point-in-time filing assessment published from the live pipeline.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind DAR
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
AJGArthur J. Gallagher & Co.partnerMay 8, 2026 ▾
“Additionally, in November 2022 the DGD Joint Venture completed the construction of the DGD Port Arthur Plant, with a capacity to produce 470 million gallons per year of renewable diesel and 20 million gallons per year of renewable naphtha and having similar l…”
VLOValero Energy CorporationpartnerMay 8, 2026 ▾
“The Fuel Ingredients operating segment includes the Company’s global activities related to (i) the Company’s share of the results of its equity investment in Diamond Green Diesel Holdings LLC, (“DGD” or the “DGD Joint Venture”), a joint venture with Valero En…”
Depended on by
VLOValero Energy CorporationpartnerFeb 25, 2026 ▾
“DGD Loan Agreement DGD has an unsecured revolving loan agreement (the DGD Loan Agreement) with its members (Darling Ingredients Inc.”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
DAR is currently a Follower in the organic co-movement group Renewable Fuels. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.