Growth Metrics

Darling Ingredients (DAR) Gross Margin (2009 - 2024)

Darling Ingredients posted annual Gross Margin of 22.36% for FY2024, down 7.74% year-over-year from 24.23% in FY2023.

Darling Ingredients (DAR) has 15 years of Gross Margin data on file, last reported at 22.36% in FY2024.

  • For the quarter ending Q2 2026, Gross Margin rose 356.0% year-over-year to 26.11%; the trailing twelve-month figure through Apr 2026 stood at 24.25% (up 160.0% YoY), and the FY2024 full-year result was 22.36%, down 188.0% from the prior year.
  • Gross Margin for FY2024 stood at 22.36%, down from 24.23% in the prior year.
  • Across five years, Gross Margin topped out at 53.23% in FY2020 and bottomed at 22.36% in FY2024.
  • The 5-year median for Gross Margin is 24.23% (2023), against an average of 31.2%.
  • The widest annual swing landed in 2020, when Gross Margin soared 3020 bps; it then tumbled 2049 bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Gross Margin shows it stood at 53.23% in 2020, then sank by 38 bps to 32.74% in 2021, then declined by 28 bps to 23.42% in 2022, then advanced by 3 bps to 24.23% in 2023, then fell by 8 bps to 22.36% in 2024.
  • The last three Gross Margin figures came in at 22.36% (FY2024), 24.23% (FY2023), and 23.42% (FY2022), per Business Quant data.