---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000916540-23-000017"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DAR"
cik: "0000916540"
company_name: "DARLING INGREDIENTS INC."
filed_at: "2023-05-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-15T11:32:42.937959+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darling Ingredients Q1 net sales $1.8B, adjusted EBITDA $418.4M, reaffirms FY2023 guidance

## Summary
- Net sales $1.79B (+31% YoY); net income $185.8M ($1.14 diluted EPS) vs $188.1M prior year.
- Combined adjusted EBITDA $418.4M (+26.5% YoY); Global ingredients EBITDA $289.1M.
- Diamond Green Diesel equity income $94.3M; DGD adjusted EBITDA share $129.3M.
- Repurchased ~773k shares for $43.8M; $330.7M remaining under buyback program.
- FY2023 combined adjusted EBITDA guidance reaffirmed at $1.875B.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000916540-23-000017
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DAR
- cik: 0000916540
- company_name: DARLING INGREDIENTS INC.
- filed_at: 2023-05-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654023000017/0000916540-23-000017-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654023000017/dar-20230509.htm

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- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-23-000017
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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000916540-23-000017.txt

## Key facts
- Earnings Releases
  DARLING INGREDIENTS INC. updated its Fiscal year 2023 guidance (initiated).
  - Period: Fiscal year 2023
  - Guidance: initiated
  - Result: guidance update
  source text: Company guidance for fiscal year 2023 is $1.875 billion combined adjusted EBITDA.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/916540/000091654023000017/0000916540-23-000017-index.htm

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