Growth Metrics

Darling Ingredients (DAR) Return on Sales (2016 - 2026)

Darling Ingredients' Return on Sales history spans 18 years, with the latest figure at 0.03% for Q1 2026.

  • For Q1 2026, Return on Sales fell 4.0% year-over-year to 0.03%; the TTM value through Jan 2026 reached 0.01%, down 4.0%, while the annual FY2026 figure was 0.01%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Sales reached 0.03% in Q1 2026 per DAR's latest filing, up from 0.01% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Sales ranged from a high of 0.4% in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.02% in Q1 2025.
  • Average Return on Sales over 5 years is 0.09%, with a median of 0.07% recorded in 2024.
  • The largest YoY upside for Return on Sales was 35bps in 2022 against a maximum downside of -34bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Sales shows it stood at 0.09% in 2022, then tumbled by -40bps to 0.05% in 2023, then surged by 35bps to 0.07% in 2024, then tumbled by -82bps to 0.01% in 2025, then skyrocketed by 156bps to 0.03% in 2026.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for DAR's Return on Sales are 0.03% (Q1 2026), 0.01% (Q3 2025), and 0.01% (Q2 2025).