Growth Metrics

Darling Ingredients (DAR) Gross Margin (2016 - 2025)

Darling Ingredients filings provide 18 years of Gross Margin readings, the most recent being 25.1% for Q1 2026.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin rose 156.0% to 25.1% in Q1 2026 year-over-year; TTM through Jan 2026 was 24.01%, a 166.0% increase, with the full-year FY2026 number at 24.01%, up 166.0% from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin hit 25.1% in Q1 2026 for Darling Ingredients, up from 24.75% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 27.04% in Q4 2023 to a low of 12.45% in Q2 2022.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 22.51% (2025), compared with a mean of 21.41%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: crashed -3372bps in 2022 and later surged 1019bps in 2023.
  • Darling Ingredients' Gross Margin stood at 21.99% in 2022, then rose by 23bps to 27.04% in 2023, then fell by -13bps to 23.54% in 2024, then grew by 5bps to 24.75% in 2025, then grew by 1bps to 25.1% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 25.1% (Q1 2026), 24.75% (Q3 2025), and 23.35% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.