Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) Stock AnalysisDARDarling Ingredients Inc

Darling Ingredients Inc. is a developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, animal feed, industrial, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer industries. Its segments include Feed Ingredients, Food Ingredients and Fuel Ingredients. The Feed Ingredients segment includes its global activities related to the collection and processing of beef, poultry and pork animal by-products in North America, Europe and South America into non-food grade oils and protein meals, and others. The Food Ingredients segment includes its global activities related to the purchase and processing of beef and pork bone chips, beef hides, pig skins, and fish skins into collagen, and others. The Fuel Ingredients segment converts fats into renewable fuels/products, organic sludge and food waste into biogas, and fallen stock into low-grade energy sources. It operates in the Consumer Non-Cyclicals sector (FATS & OILS industry).

Darling Ingredients Inc is a good buy right now due to its strong Q2 earnings of $2.41 per share, significantly above the consensus estimate of $1.45, and a robust year-to-date price increase of 70.88%. The company also reported a gross margin of 20.57%, indicating strong profitability. However, the main risk is the missed sales target of $1.804 billion, as actual sales were $1.724 billion, which could affect future performance.

8 analysts cover DAR: 7 rate it Buy, 1 Hold and 0 Sell. The average price target is 51.88.