Darling International, Inc. (NYSE:DAR)

Sector and industry are positive. DAR has new plant in completion phase...Last Q beat on revenues and earnings.

This company is great, they know what their doing and they do it well. Huge barriers to entry make this an attractive stock at any price under 19.

Fat, cooking oils, food wastes are all products that can be used in a number of ways, the chief way can be for energy as some people already do.

Trusting David on this one.

The rendering business has a stable niche in the US market. The success of Darling is in the hands of management.

Ready to pop any day now.

See my "Outperform" pitch at http://beta.fool.com/symie5/2012/12/10/keep-clean-conscience-investing-dirty/18074/

Valuation is attractive (trailing P/E of 14, P/S 1.1), margins are healthy, and their core business is stable. I think the biodiesel venture could lead to significant outperformance over the next 5+ years.

JV with Valero for a biofuel refinery give a free "kicker" for this already solid business

For every pound of red meat that is consumed
there is a corresponding pound of inedible meat byproduct of which we must dispose. Further, dumping 50 billion pounds of these byproducts would reduce the country’s available landfill space by 25% a year (at least this is all according to Darling's website). Darling focuses on something that could be a real problem otherwise. The company's grown top line revenue almost 200% over the last 5 years. It continues to wring out costs involved with the Griffin acquisition and the joint venture with Valero in the Diamond Green Diesel facility and these catalysts should continue to generate value. A solid company operating in a niche industry in rendering and recycling.

Ugly niche but a solid company. Recent acquisitions signal growth and penetration to me.

Analyst downgrade offers better entry price.

I'm willing to go green on this one for now, but will be interested to see where the food waste sector goes. Darling is a creative company finding value where others don't (i.e. stale bread), but its model may not be scalable if companies get serious about their own efficiency and cut back on the large amounts of waste DAR needs to survive.

"Garbage" ---> fuel!

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Ugly but profitable

I believe this company has a bright future and I am just sorry I missed the recent pop in the share price of this company. Any way I am going add this company to my stock portfolio in real life.