Darling Ingredients Inc.

DAR Consumer Defensive Packaged Foods

Darling Ingredients Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $6.1 billion, up 7.36% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+14.5%
EPS
+1,323.7%
Free cash flow
+428.2%
Total debt
−0.82%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

50.98 1.32 −2.52%
Market cap
$8.0B
P/E
9.5×
Fwd P/E
8.2×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
1.92
Beneish M
−2.93
Dividend safety
n/a

Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR) Price to free cash flow

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As of 5 November 2026, Darling Ingredients Inc. (DAR) trades at a price to free cash flow of 8.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.7× (February 2016) to 227× (January 2020); the current reading is higher than 3% of that period. That is in line with the Packaged Foods industry median of 9.0× and below the Consumer Defensive sector median of 15.1×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 8.3× (18.92%)
FY2024 10.2× (55.30%)
FY2023 22.8× 1.00%
FY2022 22.5× (12.92%)
FY2021 25.9× (4.14%)
FY2020 27.0× (87.53%)
FY2019 216× 555.70%
FY2018 33.0× 57.97%
FY2017 20.9× 46.66%
FY2016 14.2× 59.99%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 10.6× 10.12%
Jun 2026 9.6× (44.19%)
Mar 2026 17.3× 109.11%
Dec 2025 8.3× (15.86%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 6.7× High 227×
Ten-year median 21.0×
Current reading's percentile 3

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
CAG Conagra Brands compare 8.1×
SFD Smithfield Foods, Inc. compare 8.2×
DAR Darling Ingredients Inc. 8.9×
CPB The Campbell's Company compare 10.3×
INGR Ingredion Incorporated compare 12.7×
HRL Hormel Foods Corporation compare 15.8×
LW Lamb Weston compare 17.7×
PPC Pilgrim's Pride Corporation compare 187×
MICC The Magnum Ice Cream Company N.V. compare —
Packaged Foods industry median 9.0×
Consumer Defensive sector median 15.1×
Market median 14.1×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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