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.
Darling Ingredients EVP Jeroen Colpaert reported equity compensation activity involving company common stock. He received 9,252 shares as a grant or award, at no cash cost, upon vesting of performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period. To cover tax obligations, 4,580 shares were disposed of at $51.92 per share through share withholding rather than an open-market sale. After these transactions, Colpaert directly holds 29,764 common shares of Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients executive Jan van der Velden received 14,803 shares of Common Stock as a grant on performance shares for the 2023–2025 period. These were awarded at no cash cost to him. On the same date, 7,328 shares were disposed of to cover tax obligations at $51.92 per share. After these transactions, he directly owned 79,153 shares of Darling Ingredients Common Stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. reported that Chief Accounting Officer Joseph Manzi received a grant of 4,101 shares of common stock on March 9, 2026, at no cash cost to him. These shares vested from performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period.
To cover tax obligations, 999 shares were withheld at a price of $51.92 per share, which is treated as a tax-withholding disposition rather than an open-market sale. After these compensation-related transactions, Manzi directly holds 22,969 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. executive Brandon Lairmore, EVP US Rendering Operations, reported stock-based compensation activity. He received a grant of 1,652 shares of common stock at no cost upon vesting of performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period. To cover tax obligations, 675 shares were withheld at a price of $51.92 per share. After these transactions, he directly holds 37,666 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients EVP Chief Strategy Officer Sandra Dudley reported routine equity compensation activity. She received 11,555 shares of Common Stock as a grant tied to performance from 2023–2025, and 4,547 shares were withheld at $51.92 per share to cover tax obligations. After these transactions, she directly holds 78,108 shares of common stock.
Darling Ingredients EVP Nicholas Kemphaus received 4,621 shares of common stock as a grant tied to performance for the 2023–2025 period. To cover tax obligations, 1,819 shares were withheld at $51.92 per share, a non‑market disposition. After these routine compensation-related entries, he directly holds 36,678 shares.
Darling Ingredients executive vice president and chief administrative officer Patrick McNutt reported equity compensation activity involving company common stock. He received 9,245 shares as a grant or award on March 9, 2026, tied to performance shares for the 2023–2025 period.
To cover tax obligations, 3,486 shares were disposed of at $51.92 per share through a tax-withholding transaction, which is not an open-market sale. After these transactions, McNutt directly held 43,777 common shares of Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients EVP and CFO Robert W. Day reported equity compensation activity in company common stock. He received 4,654 shares as a grant tied to performance shares for the 2023–2025 period, then had 2,026 shares withheld at a price of $51.92 per share to cover tax obligations. After these transactions, he directly holds 41,435 common shares.
Darling Ingredients Chairman and CEO Randall C. Stuewe reported a mix of equity compensation, option exercises, tax withholding, a sale, and a charitable gift. On March 6, 2026, he exercised options for 263,704 shares of common stock at an exercise price of $11.97 per share, converting them into common shares. To cover taxes related to equity events, 139,754 shares and 35,446 shares were withheld at prices of $53.20 and $51.92 per share, respectively.
He sold 20,000 shares of common stock in an open‑market transaction at a weighted average price of $52.12 per share, with individual trades executed between $52.03 and $53.28. He also made a bona fide gift of 23,250 shares to a public university in the United States on March 6, 2026. In addition, 90,078 shares of common stock were acquired on March 9, 2026 as a grant related to performance shares for the 2023–2025 period. Following these transactions, he directly holds 1,148,467 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
DAR filed a Form 144 reporting the sale of 20,000 common shares through J.P. Morgan Securities LLC with a filing date of 03/06/2026.
The filing also lists recent RSU vesting events: 5,089 shares vested 01/22/2024, 3,734 vested 03/02/2023, 6,100 vested 01/04/2023, and 5,077 vested 01/03/2023.