Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR)

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $3.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $6.1 billion in fiscal 2026, up 6.8% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 16% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-01-03, Darling Ingredients Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 0.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 4% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 19 sales and 3 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12, buying about $87 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-01-03, Darling Ingredients Inc. earned about 1 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 14 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 54 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 47% by size; a net margin of 1% ranks in the bottom 32%; revenue growth of -2.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 23% (its annual reports).

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Stuewe, Randall C (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2007-01-18, 19.8 years (top 6% of its family); the 21 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.9 years (bottom 22%); 8 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 21 people in charge now (top 38%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $89 million against debt of $3.9 billion leaves -36.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 11% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11.1% of revenue (top 20%); a gross margin of 24% (bottom 42%) (its annual report).

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew -2.1% a year over the last three filed years against 6.8% over all 10, slowing (bottom 15% of its family); the newest year grew 7.2% (top 30%); capital spending grew -0.9% a year (top 39%) (its annual reports). Darling Ingredients Inc. reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Feed Ingredients at $4.0 billion (65%), Food Ingredients at $1.5 billion (25%), Fuel Ingredients at $601 million (10%); 3 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Darling Ingredients Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $6.1 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 14.8% above the $5.3 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 14% of its family); net income of $63 million against a prior three-year average of $555 million (bottom 17%); a net margin of 1% against 8.6% before (bottom 22%) (its annual reports).