Darling Ingredients (DAR) reported $1.38 billion in revenue for the quarter ended March 2025, representing a year-over-year decline of 2.8%. EPS of -$0.16 for the same period compares to $0.50 a year ago.
The reported revenue represents a surprise of -8.36% over the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.51 billion. With the consensus EPS estimate being $0.20, the EPS surprise was -180.00%.
While investors closely watch year-over-year changes in headline numbers -- revenue and earnings -- and how they compare to Wall Street expectations to determine their next course of action, some key metrics always provide a better insight into a company's underlying performance.
Since these metrics play a crucial role in driving the top- and bottom-line numbers, comparing them with the year-ago numbers and what analysts estimated about them helps investors better project a stock's price performance.
Here is how Darling performed in the just reported quarter in terms of the metrics most widely monitored and projected by Wall Street analysts:
- Net Sales- Feed Ingredients: $896.28 million compared to the $976.29 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of +0.7% year over year.
- Net Sales- Fuel Ingredients: $135.07 million compared to the $137.58 million average estimate based on four analysts. The reported number represents a change of -2.9% year over year.
- Net Sales- Food Ingredients: $349.24 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $376.23 million. The reported number represents a year-over-year change of -10.7%.
- Segment Adjusted EBITDA- Food Ingredients: $70.93 million versus $66.29 million estimated by four analysts on average.
- Segment Adjusted EBITDA- Feed Ingredients: $110.58 million versus the four-analyst average estimate of $151.08 million.
- Segment Adjusted EBITDA- Fuel Ingredients: $18.19 million versus the three-analyst average estimate of $19.87 million.
- Segment Adjusted EBITDA- Corporate: -$9.97 million versus -$11.95 million estimated by three analysts on average.
- Combined Adjusted EBITDA - Fuel Ingredients: $24.23 million versus $65.38 million estimated by two analysts on average.
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Shares of Darling have returned -0.4% over the past month versus the Zacks S&P 500 composite's -5.1% change. The stock currently has a Zacks Rank #5 (Strong Sell), indicating that it could underperform the broader market in the near term.
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