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Darling Ingredients (Darling Ingredients) Graham Number

: $24.38 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Graham Number is a figure that measures a stock's fundamental value by taking into account the company's earnings per share and book value per share. The Graham number is the upper bound of the price range that a defensive investor should pay for the stock. According to the theory, any stock price below the Graham number is considered undervalued, and thus worth investing in.

As of today (2024-04-19), the stock price of Darling Ingredients is $41.18. Darling Ingredients's graham number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was $24.38. Therefore, Darling Ingredients's Price to Graham Number ratio for today is 1.69.

The historical rank and industry rank for Darling Ingredients's Graham Number or its related term are showing as below:

DAR' s Price-to-Graham-Number Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.68   Med: 2.52   Max: 7.42
Current: 1.69

During the past 13 years, the highest Price to Graham Number ratio of Darling Ingredients was 7.42. The lowest was 1.68. And the median was 2.52.

DAR's Price-to-Graham-Number is ranked worse than
67.12% of 1250 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 1.255 vs DAR: 1.69

Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation. It is a very conservative way of valuing a stock.


Darling Ingredients Graham Number Historical Data

The historical data trend for Darling Ingredients's Graham Number can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Darling Ingredients Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Graham Number
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 14.24 17.87 30.20 25.53 24.41

Darling Ingredients Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Graham Number Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 25.54 15.43 22.58 23.24 24.38

Competitive Comparison

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Darling Ingredients's Price-to-Graham-Number, along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-Graham-Number data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Darling Ingredients Price-to-Graham-Number Distribution

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Darling Ingredients's Price-to-Graham-Number distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Darling Ingredients's Price-to-Graham-Number falls into.



Darling Ingredients Graham Number Calculation

Graham Number is a concept based on Ben Graham's conservative valuation of companies.

Darling Ingredients's Graham Number for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5* Tangible Book per Share *EPS without NRI)
=sqrt of (22.5*6.551*4.041)
=24.41

Darling Ingredients's Graham Number for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 is calculated as

Graham Number
=sqrt of (22.5*Tangible Book per Share*EPS without NRI (TTM))
=sqrt of (22.5*6.551*4.033)
=24.38

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Darling Ingredients  (NYSE:DAR) Graham Number Explanation

Ben Graham actually did not publish a formula like this. But he wrote in The Intelligent Investor (1948 version) regarding to the criteria for purchases:

Current price should not be more than 15 times average earnings of the past three years.

Current price should not be more than 1.5 times the book value last reported. However, a multiplier of earnings below 15 could justify a correspondingly higher multiplier of assets. As a rule of thumb we suggest that the product of the multiplier times the ratio of price to book value should not exceed 22.5. (This figure corresponds to 15 times earnings and 1.5 times book value. It would admit an issue selling at only 9 times earnings and 2.5 times asset value, etc.)

Unlike valuation methods such as DCF or Discounted Earnings, the Graham number does not take growth into the valuation. Unlike the valuation methods based on book value alone, it takes into account the earnings power. Therefore, the Graham Number is a combination of asset valuation and earnings power valuation.

In general, the Graham number is a very conservative way of valuing a stock. It cannot be applied to companies with negative book values.

Darling Ingredients's Price to Graham number Ratio for today is calculated as

Price to Graham number=Share Price (Today)/Graham number (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=41.18/24.38
=1.69

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Be Aware

Please keep these in mind:

1. Graham Number does not take growth into account. Therefore it underestimates the values of the companies that have good earnings growth. We feel that if the earnings per share grows more than 10% a year, Graham Number underestimates the value.
2. Graham Number punishes the companies that have temporarily low earnings. Therefore, an average of earnings makes more sense in the calculation of Graham Number.
3. Graham Numbers underestimates companies that are light with book.


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Darling Ingredients (Darling Ingredients) Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
Address
5601 N MacArthur Boulevard, Irving, TX, USA, 75038
Darling Ingredients Inc develops and manufactures sustainable ingredients for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, fuel, and fertilizer industries. It collects and transforms all aspects of animal by-product streams into ingredients, including gelatin, fats, proteins, pet food ingredients, fertilizers, and other specialty products. Also, the company recovers and converts used cooking oil and bakery remnants into feed and fuel ingredients. Darling has three primary business segments: feed ingredients (the majority of revenue), food ingredients, and fuel ingredients. It provides grease trap services for food businesses and sells various equipment for collecting and delivering cooking oil. The company derives the majority of its revenue from customers in North America.
Executives
Joseph Manzi officer: Chief Accounting Officer 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD., IRVING TX 75038
Robert W Day officer: EVP Chief Strategy Officer 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING TX 75038
Matthew J Jansen officer: COO North America C/O DARLING INGREDIENTS INC., 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING TX 75038
Patrick Mcnutt officer: EVP Chief Admin Officer 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING TX 75038
Charles L Adair director 251 O'CONNOR RIDGE BLVD., SUITE 300, IRVING TX 75038
John Bullock officer: EVP Chief Strategy Officer 251 O'CONNOR RIDGE BLVD., SUITE 300, IRVING TX 75038
Randall C Stuewe director, officer: Chairman and CEO
Van Der Velden Jan officer: EVP Int Rendering&Specialties 251 O'CONNOR RIDGE BLVD, SUITE 300, IRVING TX 75038
Gary W. Mize director GEVO, INC., 345 INVERNESS DRIVE SOUTH, BUILDING C, SUITE 310, ENGLEWOOD CO 80112
Brandon Lairmore officer: EVP US Rendering Operations 4221 E. ALEXANDRIA PIKE, COLD SPRING KY 41076
Larry Barden director 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING TX 75038
Enderson Guimaraes director PEPSICO, INC., 700 ANDERSON HILL ROAD, PURCHASE NY 10577
Celeste A. Clark director C/O ADVANCEPIERRE FOODS HOLDINGS, INC., 9987 CARVER ROAD, BLUE ASH OH 45242
Kurt Stoffel director 5601 N. MACARTHUR BLVD, IRVING TX 75038
Elizabeth Albright director C/O THE CHEMOURS COMPANY, 1007 MARKET STREET, WILMINGTON DE 19898