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Darling Ingredients Inc. filings document material events, operating results and governance for a company that transforms animal agriculture and food-industry residuals into feed, food and fuel ingredients. Recent 8-K reports furnish earnings releases, conference-call materials, non-GAAP reconciliations, Regulation FD investor presentations and commentary on the Diamond Green Diesel joint venture.
Proxy and annual-meeting filings cover director elections, auditor ratification, executive compensation votes, board composition, committee assignments and non-employee director compensation. Other disclosures address capital structure, liquidity, forward-looking risk factors and shareholder voting matters tied to the company's public-company reporting obligations.
Adair Charles L reported acquisition or exercise transactions in this Form 4 filing.
Darling Ingredients Inc. director Charles L. Adair received a grant of 2,650 shares of Common Stock on May 7, 2026. The shares were awarded at a price of $0.00 per share, indicating a compensation-related equity award rather than an open-market purchase. Following this grant, Adair directly holds 50,690 shares of the company’s common stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. reported the results of its annual stockholder meeting held on May 7, 2026. Stockholders elected all ten Board nominees, each receiving over 110 million votes in favor, with broker non-votes of 6,344,419 for each nominee.
Stockholders also ratified the selection of KPMG LLP as independent registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending January 2, 2027, with 126,823,697 votes for and 10,700,222 against. In advisory votes, stockholders approved the Company’s executive compensation and the 2026 Omnibus Incentive Plan by wide margins.
Darling Ingredients Inc. reported a strong turnaround for the quarter ended April 4, 2026. Total net sales rose to $1.55 billion from $1.38 billion a year earlier, driven by growth across Feed, Food and Fuel Ingredients.
Net income attributable to Darling improved to $134.3 million from a loss of $26.2 million, with diluted earnings per share moving to $0.83 from a loss of $0.16. A key driver was the Diamond Green Diesel joint venture, which generated $107.4 million of equity income versus a loss previously.
Operating cash flow was $153.0 million, funding heavy investing outflows of $288.7 million, including $190.1 million of capital contributions to the joint venture and significant capital spending. Total debt increased to about $4.13 billion, while cash, cash equivalents and restricted cash reached $228.2 million, and the company maintained roughly $1.1 billion of revolver availability.
DAR filed a Form 144 reporting a proposed sale of Common Stock through a broker. The notice lists 1,975 shares purchased on 06/16/2021 and 1,025 shares purchased on 11/20/2023 as the securities to be sold via open-market transactions through Charles Schwab & Co., Inc.
Darling Ingredients Inc. Chief Accounting Officer Joseph Manzi reported an open-market sale of 3,000 shares of Common Stock at $63.89 per share. After this transaction, he directly holds 19,969 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. reported a sharp turnaround in Q1 2026, moving to net income of $134.3 million, or $0.83 per diluted share, from a net loss of $26.2 million, or $(0.16) per share, in Q1 2025. Total net sales rose to $1.55 billion from $1.38 billion, while gross margin expanded to 26.1%.
Company Adjusted EBITDA reached $255.7 million, and Combined Adjusted EBITDA including the Diamond Green Diesel joint venture jumped to $406.8 million from $195.8 million. Darling’s share of DGD Adjusted EBITDA increased to $151.2 million, supported by 272.4 million gallons of renewable fuels sold at about $1.11 Adjusted EBITDA per gallon.
The company monetized $45.0 million of Production Tax Credits, ended the quarter with $116.0 million in cash and $1.1 billion of revolver availability, and reported total debt of $4.1 billion and a preliminary leverage ratio of 3.17x. For Q2 2026, management estimates core ingredients business Adjusted EBITDA of $260–275 million.
Vanguard Capital Management reports beneficial ownership of 8,332,358 shares of Darling Ingredients Inc common stock, representing 5.24% of the class as of 03/31/2026. Vanguard discloses sole dispositive power over 8,332,358 shares and sole voting power for 1,210,519 shares. The filing is signed on 04/29/2026.
Darling Ingredients Inc: The Vanguard Group filed Amendment No. 15 to a Schedule 13G/A reporting 0 shares of Common Stock and 0% beneficial ownership as of the filing. The filing explains an internal realignment of Vanguard subsidiaries and states those subsidiaries will report ownership separately.
Darling Ingredients Inc. is asking stockholders to vote at its virtual 2026 annual meeting on May 7, 2026 on four items: electing ten directors, ratifying KPMG as auditor, an advisory say-on-pay vote, and approving a 2026 Omnibus Incentive Plan. Stockholders of record on March 10, 2026, when 158,729,220 common shares were outstanding, are entitled to one vote per share.
The company highlights 2025 results, including net income of $62.8 million, GAAP diluted EPS of $0.39, and combined adjusted EBITDA of $1.03 billion. It also monetized $255 million of $285 million in Production Tax Credit sales and reduced its bank leverage ratio to 2.90x, emphasizing deleveraging and cash generation.
Board refreshment continues with the appointment of former Cargill executive Robert Aspell and the planned retirement of Lead Director Gary W. Mize after the meeting. The proxy stresses majority-independent directors, fully independent committees, strong governance features such as majority voting, proxy access and a 10% special-meeting right, and an executive pay program heavily weighted to performance-based incentives that has historically received over 97% support in say-on-pay voting.