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Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) — chart, structure and Closelook read

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Company snapshot — Darling Ingredients Inc

DAR in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Darling Ingredients turns animal by-products, used cooking oil and food waste into ingredients for feed, food and fuel. Its feed division processes fats, protein meals, blood products and pet-food ingredients; its food division makes collagen, casings and related items from animal parts; its fuel division converts organic waste into biogas, renewable-diesel feedstock and bio-phosphate fertiliser. It operates across North America, Europe, China and South America under a set of regional brands.
Where it sits in the stack
Darling carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices; it sits in our universe under the Consumer Defensive sector, Packaged Foods industry, as a Russell 1000 name outside the AI build-out stack.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group for Darling is not defined in our data; the market sometimes sets it against Archer-Daniels-Midland as a larger agricultural-processing name.
Why Closelook tracks it
Darling holds a seat in the Russell 1000. It carries no Closelook score, no peer-group classification, and has not yet been quoted in the diary.
What the diary watches
The diary watches how renewable-fuel feedstock demand and used-cooking-oil prices move through Darling's fuel-ingredients segment.

Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for DAR, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Packaged Foods · United States · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Packaged Foods · United States

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against DAR on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Darling Ingredients Inc (DAR)?

Darling Ingredients Inc trades as DAR on the US exchange (United States) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is DAR in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Darling Ingredients Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does DAR trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +2.7% vs the 50-day and +19% vs the 200-day average, 6.6% below the 52-week high and +124.2% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Darling Ingredients Inc do?

Darling Ingredients turns animal by-products, used cooking oil and food waste into ingredients for feed, food and fuel. Its feed division processes fats, protein meals, blood products and pet-food ingredients; its food division makes collagen, casings and related items from animal parts; its fuel division converts organic waste into biogas, renewable-diesel feedstock and bio-phosphate fertiliser. It operates across North America, Europe, China and South America under a set of regional brands. Closelook's peer group for Darling is not defined in our data; the market sometimes sets it against Archer-Daniels-Midland as a larger agricultural-processing name.

Where does Darling Ingredients Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Darling carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices; it sits in our universe under the Consumer Defensive sector, Packaged Foods industry, as a Russell 1000 name outside the AI build-out stack. Darling holds a seat in the Russell 1000. It carries no Closelook score, no peer-group classification, and has not yet been quoted in the diary.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for DAR, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Packaged Foods. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.