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Darling Ingredients (Darling Ingredients) Interest Coverage

: 2.42 (As of Dec. 2023)
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Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income by its Interest Expense. Darling Ingredients's Operating Income for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $166 Mil. Darling Ingredients's Interest Expense for the three months ended in Dec. 2023 was $-68 Mil. Darling Ingredients's interest coverage for the quarter that ended in Dec. 2023 was 2.42. The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

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

DAR' s Interest Coverage Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: 1.15   Med: 1.62   Max: 8.6
Current: 2.32


DAR's Interest Coverage is ranked worse than
79.77% of 1374 companies
in the Consumer Packaged Goods industry
Industry Median: 8.41 vs DAR: 2.32

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.


Darling Ingredients Interest Coverage Historical Data

The historical data trend for Darling Ingredients's Interest Coverage 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.

Note: For Interest Coverage, "No debt" indicates no long-term debt. An indication of "No Debt" does not necessarily mean that the company has no long-term debt obligations; it could be due to missing data in the quarterly or annual report. Use caution when interpreting this information.

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Darling Ingredients Annual Data
Trend Dec14 Dec15 Dec16 Dec17 Dec18 Dec19 Dec20 Dec21 Dec22 Dec23
Interest Coverage
Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 1.15 2.12 8.60 5.56 2.32

Darling Ingredients Quarterly Data
Mar19 Jun19 Sep19 Dec19 Mar20 Jun20 Sep20 Dec20 Mar21 Jun21 Sep21 Dec21 Mar22 Jun22 Sep22 Dec22 Mar23 Jun23 Sep23 Dec23
Interest Coverage 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 3.24 3.43 1.98 1.75 2.42

Competitive Comparison

For the Packaged Foods subindustry, Darling Ingredients's Interest Coverage, along with its competitors' market caps and Interest Coverage 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 Interest Coverage Distribution

For the Consumer Packaged Goods industry and Consumer Defensive sector, Darling Ingredients's Interest Coverage distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Darling Ingredients's Interest Coverage falls into.



Darling Ingredients Interest Coverage Calculation

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

If Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is positive, then

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income /Interest Expense

Else if Interest Expense is negative and Operating Income is negative, then

The company did not have earnings to cover the interest expense.

Else if Interest Expense is 0 and Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation is 0, then

The company had no debt (1).


Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

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

Here, for the fiscal year that ended in Dec. 2023, Darling Ingredients's Interest Expense was $-259 Mil. Its Operating Income was $600 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,521 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (A: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (A: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*600.471/-259.223
=2.32

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

Here, for the three months ended in Dec. 2023, Darling Ingredients's Interest Expense was $-68 Mil. Its Operating Income was $166 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation was $4,521 Mil.

Interest Coverage=-1* Operating Income (Q: Dec. 2023 )/Interest Expense (Q: Dec. 2023 )
=-1*165.882/-68.453
=2.42

* 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.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's Financial Strength is.


Darling Ingredients  (NYSE:DAR) Interest Coverage Explanation

Ben Graham requires that a company has a minimum interest coverage of 5 with the companies he invested. If the interest coverage is less than 2, the company is burdened by debt. Any business slow or recession may drag the company into a situation where it cannot pay the interest on its debt.

Interest Coverage is an important factor when GuruFocus ranks a company's overage Financial Strength .


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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