JPMorgan upgraded Darling Ingredients to Overweight after transferring lead coverage to Tom Palmer from Ken Goldman. The analyst sees "meaningfully more upside" for shares, despite the 42% year-to-date rally, as the company's end products, particularly rendered fats, begin to flow through. Palmer raised his price target for the shares to $18 from $14.

Reports Q1 revenue $1.4B, consensus $1.48B. "For several years, we have enjoyed tailwinds from a demand-driven global economy and strong global commodity and specialty ingredient prices. We are now adapting to the new reality of abundant global supplies. This is a cycle we have seen many times, and we are making the necessary adjustments in our procurement process and lowering our operating costs where feasible to gain back our margin leverage," said Randall C. Stuewe, Darling Ingredients chairman and CEO. "Globally we are seeing very nice progress and improvement in April for our core specialty ingredient business, and DGD has finally worked through its higher-priced feedstock pipeline. We anticipate an improved performance for the rest of the year."