Growth Metrics

Darling Ingredients (DAR) FCF Margin (2016 - 2026)

Darling Ingredients filings provide 17 years of FCF Margin readings, the most recent being 16.62% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin rose 1090.0% to 16.62% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 11.07%, a 220.0% increase, with the full-year FY2026 number at 11.07%, up 220.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin hit 16.62% in Q1 2026 for Darling Ingredients, up from 8.58% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 16.62% in Q1 2026 to a low of 2.33% in Q4 2022.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 6.87% (2023), compared with a mean of 8.14%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Margin: plummeted -598bps in 2025 and later skyrocketed 1090bps in 2026.
  • Darling Ingredients' FCF Margin stood at 2.33% in 2022, then increased by 12bps to 2.61% in 2023, then skyrocketed by 119bps to 5.72% in 2024, then surged by 50bps to 8.58% in 2025, then surged by 94bps to 16.62% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 16.62% (Q1 2026), 8.58% (Q3 2025), and 5.05% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.