StockIceMan's Weekly Stock Pick
Week of
February 5, 2007
| Stock: |
Darling International, Inc. |
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| Ticker Symbol: |
DAR - AMEX - Consumer Goods -
Cleaning Supplies |
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| Buy: |
4.75 to 5.25 |
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| Sell: |
7.00 |
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Info: |
Darling International,
Inc. provides rendering, recycling, and recovery
solutions to the food industry in the United
States. The company collects and recycles animal
by-products, such as fat, bones, feathers, and
offal from meat packers, grocery stores, butcher
shops, meat markets, and food service
establishments, as well as used cooking oil from
food service establishments. It converts these
food by-products into various feed ingredients
and fats primarily through the drying, grinding,
separating, and blending processes. Its finished
products include protein primarily consisting of
meat and bone meal, tallow principally
comprising bleachable fancy tallow, and yellow
grease. The company sells its products primarily
to producers of oleo-chemicals, soaps, pet
foods, and livestock feed for use as ingredients
in their products or for further processing. It
also sells grease collection equipment and
provides grease trap services to food service
establishments and food processors. The company
sells its products through its own sales force
in the United States, as well as through its
agents and commodities brokers internationally.
Darling International was founded in 1882. It
was formerly known as Darling-Delaware Company,
Inc. and changed its name to Darling
International, Inc. in 1993. The company is
headquartered in Irving, Texas |
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| Financial Info: |
For the 3 months ending
9/30/06, revenues were $ 115.2 million. Net
income was $ 1.80 million. |
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| Key Ratios: |
Current
Ratio: 1.353, Total Debt/Equity: 0.638, Trailing
P/E: 358.75x, Forward P/E: 17.94x, Price/Book:
3.14, Price/Sales: 1.30 |
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| Share Info: |
There are 80.85
million shares outstanding with 68.27
million shares in the trading
float. Institutions own
approximately 79.20% of the shares outstanding.
There have been no insider purchases or
insider sales in the last six months.
Real-Time SEC
Filings
As of 12/12/2006, there were 3.12 million shares short.
Net Institutional Buying: 431,356 shares prior to latest
quarter. |
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