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The SEC filings page for Darling Ingredients Inc. (NYSE: DAR) provides access to the company’s regulatory disclosures as an issuer listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Through forms such as 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K, Darling Ingredients reports information about its operations in rendering and meat byproduct processing, its sustainable ingredients business, and its financial condition.
Current reports on Form 8-K offer detailed insight into specific events. For example, the company has filed 8-Ks describing quarterly financial results, including segment data for feed ingredients, food ingredients, and fuel ingredients, as well as non-GAAP measures like Segment Adjusted EBITDA and Combined Adjusted EBITDA. These filings also discuss the performance of the Diamond Green Diesel joint venture and its impact on Darling Ingredients’ earnings.
Other 8-K filings address capital structure and financing, such as the redemption of senior notes, satisfaction and discharge of related indentures, and the pricing of new senior notes issued by an indirect wholly owned subsidiary. Governance-related filings include amendments and restatements of the company’s bylaws and executive leadership changes, including departures, retirement plans, and advisory arrangements for certain officers.
Filings also document strategic transactions. A Form 8-K describes the Master Contribution Agreement under which Darling Ingredients and Tessenderlo Group will contribute their collagen and gelatin business assets and liabilities into NewCo Collagen LLC, with Darling Ingredients expected to hold an 85% equity interest and Tessenderlo a 15% interest at closing, subject to regulatory approvals and other conditions.
On this page, users can review these SEC documents and use AI-powered summaries to interpret complex sections, such as segment reconciliations, non-GAAP measures, and transaction terms. Real-time updates from EDGAR, combined with AI explanations of 10-K annual reports, 10-Q quarterly reports, and 8-K current reports, help readers understand how specific filings relate to Darling Ingredients’ core ingredients business, its Diamond Green Diesel joint venture, and its collagen and gelatin initiatives.
Darling Ingredients Inc: The Vanguard Group filed Amendment No. 15 to a Schedule 13G/A reporting 0 shares of Common Stock and 0% beneficial ownership as of the filing. The filing explains an internal realignment of Vanguard subsidiaries and states those subsidiaries will report ownership separately.
Darling Ingredients Inc. is asking stockholders to vote at its virtual 2026 annual meeting on May 7, 2026 on four items: electing ten directors, ratifying KPMG as auditor, an advisory say-on-pay vote, and approving a 2026 Omnibus Incentive Plan. Stockholders of record on March 10, 2026, when 158,729,220 common shares were outstanding, are entitled to one vote per share.
The company highlights 2025 results, including net income of $62.8 million, GAAP diluted EPS of $0.39, and combined adjusted EBITDA of $1.03 billion. It also monetized $255 million of $285 million in Production Tax Credit sales and reduced its bank leverage ratio to 2.90x, emphasizing deleveraging and cash generation.
Board refreshment continues with the appointment of former Cargill executive Robert Aspell and the planned retirement of Lead Director Gary W. Mize after the meeting. The proxy stresses majority-independent directors, fully independent committees, strong governance features such as majority voting, proxy access and a 10% special-meeting right, and an executive pay program heavily weighted to performance-based incentives that has historically received over 97% support in say-on-pay voting.
Darling Ingredients EVP Mark Joseph Finnimore reported routine equity compensation activity. On March 9, 2026, he acquired 2,079 shares of common stock at $0.00 per share as a grant/award, reflecting the vesting of performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period.
On the same date, 1,113 shares of common stock were disposed of at $51.92 per share to cover tax obligations through share withholding rather than an open-market sale. After these transactions, he directly holds 12,259 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients EVP Jeroen Colpaert reported equity compensation activity involving company common stock. He received 9,252 shares as a grant or award, at no cash cost, upon vesting of performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period. To cover tax obligations, 4,580 shares were disposed of at $51.92 per share through share withholding rather than an open-market sale. After these transactions, Colpaert directly holds 29,764 common shares of Darling Ingredients.
Darling Ingredients executive Jan van der Velden received 14,803 shares of Common Stock as a grant on performance shares for the 2023–2025 period. These were awarded at no cash cost to him. On the same date, 7,328 shares were disposed of to cover tax obligations at $51.92 per share. After these transactions, he directly owned 79,153 shares of Darling Ingredients Common Stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. reported that Chief Accounting Officer Joseph Manzi received a grant of 4,101 shares of common stock on March 9, 2026, at no cash cost to him. These shares vested from performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period.
To cover tax obligations, 999 shares were withheld at a price of $51.92 per share, which is treated as a tax-withholding disposition rather than an open-market sale. After these compensation-related transactions, Manzi directly holds 22,969 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients Inc. executive Brandon Lairmore, EVP US Rendering Operations, reported stock-based compensation activity. He received a grant of 1,652 shares of common stock at no cost upon vesting of performance shares tied to the 2023–2025 performance period. To cover tax obligations, 675 shares were withheld at a price of $51.92 per share. After these transactions, he directly holds 37,666 shares of Darling Ingredients common stock.
Darling Ingredients EVP Chief Strategy Officer Sandra Dudley reported routine equity compensation activity. She received 11,555 shares of Common Stock as a grant tied to performance from 2023–2025, and 4,547 shares were withheld at $51.92 per share to cover tax obligations. After these transactions, she directly holds 78,108 shares of common stock.
Darling Ingredients EVP Nicholas Kemphaus received 4,621 shares of common stock as a grant tied to performance for the 2023–2025 period. To cover tax obligations, 1,819 shares were withheld at $51.92 per share, a non‑market disposition. After these routine compensation-related entries, he directly holds 36,678 shares.