Darling Ingredients price to free cash flow DAR
Market value divided by free cash flow over the last twelve months, since 2011.
- Today, Oct 23, 2026
- n/m
- not a meaningful number
- Last meaningful
- 51.5×
- Oct 2020
- 10-year median
- 41.5×
- 10-year range
- 11.6× to 387×
- Peer median
- 20.1×
Darling Ingredients' price to free cash flow is not a meaningful number today: free cash flow over the last twelve months was zero, negative or not reported.
It was last meaningful in Oct 2020, at 51.5×.
On the days it had one over the last ten years, its median was 41.5×, from 11.6× in Jan 2017 to 387× in Jul 2020.
Price to free cash flow over time
The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.
Year by year
| Year | End of year | Low | High |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 51.5× | 37.9× | 387× |
| 2019 | 42.3× | 34.2× | 72.9× |
| 2018 | 62.6× | 20.1× | 72.0× |
| 2017 | 27.8× | 11.6× | 27.8× |
| 2016 | 12.5× | 8.7× | 15.1× |
| 2015 | 11.2× | 8.5× | 86.1× |
| 2014 | 86.6× | 22.3× | 90.1× |
| 2013 | 23.9× | 11.8× | 25.5× |
| 2012 | 11.1× | 10.1× | 13.9× |
| 2011 | 10.1× | 9.5× | 19.4× |
Against its peers
Companies in Agricultural Farm Products nearest Darling Ingredients' size, closest first, today.
| Company | Price to free cash flow |
|---|---|
| DARDarling Ingredients | n/m |
| PPCPilgrims Pride | n/m |
| BGBunge Global | n/m |
| TSNTyson Foods | 17.2× |
| ADMArcher-Daniels-Midland | 23.0× |
| Peer median | 20.1× |
What the price to free cash flow tells you
Market value divided by free cash flow: the cash left after running the business and paying for equipment. Cash is harder to manage than accounting earnings, so many investors trust this more than PE.
Lumpy: a big year of building factories drops cash flow and inflates the ratio without the business getting worse.
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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of . Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.