Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) Stock

About Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. is led by CEO Ricardo Cardenas, employs 191,105 people, headquartered in Orlando, US, publicly traded since 1995.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) stock trades at $212.40 with a market capitalization of $24.03B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 18.95, price-to-book of 10.72, price-to-sales of 1.67. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $169.00 and $229.76, and currently trades 7.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.32%.

On profitability, Darden Restaurants, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of 55.90%, above the typical market range of roughly 12-15%, return on capital employed of 15.59%, an operating margin of 11.28%, a net profit margin of 8.85%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Darden Restaurants, Inc. reported annual revenue of $13.2B, net profit of $1.2B. Over the last 5 fiscal years, revenue grew at an average annual rate of 12.9%, and net profit grew at an average annual rate of 13.9%. Over that span net profit grew faster than revenue, so net margin widened.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 3.20 (debt more than twice shareholders' equity), a current ratio of 0.42, total assets of $12.9B, $220.0M in cash and equivalents.

DRI has an average daily trading volume of 1,300,408 shares, a beta of 0.59 (historically less volatile than the overall market).

Darden Restaurants, Inc. by the numbers, 2017–2026

Between 2017 and 2026 Darden Restaurants, Inc. reported revenue of $7.2B rising to $13.2B, a change of +84.3% across 10 years. Compounded, revenue has grown 12.9% a year over five years, 8.0% over three, 9.4% over the last twelve months. Net profit rose to $1.2B.

Operating margin went from 9.4% in 2017 to 12.0% in 2026, a gain of 2.5 percentage points. The most recent net margin is 8.85%. On a trailing twelve-month basis to Jun '26, revenue is $13.2B and net profit $1.2B.

Borrowings rose from $937.0M to $6.1B, cash from operations was $1.9B in the latest year, positive in 10 of the last 10.

Return on equity has averaged 46.8% over five years, and was 54.7% in the most recent year.

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