Darling International Inc. ($DAR) Possible Buy to $28 Confident Investor Rating: Good

Company name Darling International Inc.
Stock ticker DAR
Live stock price [stckqut]DAR[/stckqut]
P/E compared to competitors Good

MANAGEMENT EXECUTION

Employee productivity Fair
Sales growth Good
EPS growth Good
P/E growth Good
EBIT growth Good

ANALYSIS

Confident Investor Rating Good
Target stock price (TWCA growth scenario) $30.89
Target stock price (averages with growth) $31.37
Target stock price (averages with no growth) $25.31
Target stock price (manual assumptions) $21.36

The following company description is from Google Finance: http://www.google.com/finance?q=dar

Darling International Inc. (Darling) is a provider of rendering, cooking oil and bakery waste recycling and recovery solutions. The Company collects and recycles animal by-products, bakery residual and used cooking oil from poultry and meat processors, commercial bakeries, grocery stores, butcher shops, and food service establishments and provides grease trap cleaning services to many of the same establishments. The Company operates over 120 processing and transfer facilities located throughout the United States to process raw materials into finished products such as protein (primarily meat and bone meal (MBM) and poultry meal (PM)), hides, fats (primarily bleachable fancy tallow (BFT), poultry grease (PG) and yellow grease (YG)) and bakery by-products (BBP) as well as a range of branded and value-added products. In January 2014, the Company announced that it has completed the acquisition of VION Ingredients, a division of VION Holding N.V.

 

Confident Investor comments: At this price and at this time, I think that a Confident Investor can confidently invest in Darling International Inc.

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How was this analysis of Darling International Inc. calculated?

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In order to assist you in using the techniques of this book, the values that I used when calculating the Manual pricing above were:

Stock price at the time of the calculation: $19.99

Growth: 0.16

Current EPS (TTM): $0.91

P/E: 18

Future EPS Calc: $1.91

Future Stock Price Calc: $34.4

Target stock price: $21.36

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