Consumer Discretionary / RestaurantsUpdated 2026-05-10 22:07 UTC

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Market cap

22.5B

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Market data

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Sector context

Where the current metrics sit

Percentiles come from the backend screener cohort cache for the ticker's country and sector.

Forward P/E17.2

P25 11.5P50 15.8P75 23.1

Trailing P/E20.7

P25 13.1P50 20.6P75 33.1

ROE51.5

P25 -21.1P50 4.5P75 16.1

ROIC12.9

P25 -4.5P50 5.2P75 12.8

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Indicator catalog

All DRI market and fundamental indicators

A searchable catalog of the available market, valuation, profitability, growth, balance-sheet, ownership, and analyst metrics for this ticker.

Available fields

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Showing 276 of 276 available metrics for this ticker.

Profile and market data

Ticker identity, listing, currency, market cap, and source dates.

Metric	Value
Cik	0000940944
Company name	Darden Restaurants, Inc.
Country	United States
Country code	US
Cusip	237194105
Employees	197,124
Employees Change	6,019%
Employees Change Percent	3.15
Enterprise value	$30.4B
Exchange	NYSE
Financial currency	USD
First seen	2026-05-09
In Index	SP500
Industry	Restaurants
IPO Date	1995-05-05
Isin	US2371941053
Last refreshed	2026-05-10
Market cap	$22.5B
Market cap category	Large-Cap
Price	$196
Price currency	USD
Rev Per Employee	64,750.11x
Sector	Consumer Discretionary
Sic	5812
Symbol	DRI
Website	https://www.darden.com

Valuation

Multiples, yields, enterprise-value ratios, and valuation checks.

Metric	Value
Earnings Yield	4.92%
EV Earnings	27.49x
EV Sales Forward	2.19x
EV/EBIT	20.58x
EV/EBITDA	15.13x
EV/FCF	29.73x
EV/Sales	2.38x
FCF yield	4.55%
Forward P/E	17.24x
P/B ratio	10.7x
P/E ratio	20.67x
P/S ratio	1.76x
PE Ratio10 Y	20.48x
PE Ratio3 Y	19.81x
PE Ratio5 Y	20.05x
PEG ratio	1.73x
PS Forward	1.62x

Profitability

Margins, returns on capital, cash conversion, and quality metrics.

Metric	Value
EBIT Margin	11.57%
EBITDA Margin	15.74%
FCF margin	8.01%
Gross margin	21.51%
Gross Profit	$2.7B
Gross Profit Growth	6.61%
Gross Profit Growth Q	4.88%
Gross Profit Growth3 Y	10.78%
Gross Profit Growth5 Y	23.27%
Net Income	$1.1B
Net Income Growth	4.91%
Net Income Growth Q	-5.13%
Net Income Growth Years	5%
Net Income Growth3 Y	5.24%
Pretax Margin	9.87%
Profit Margin	8.66%
Profit Per Employee	$5,609
Profitable Years	5
ROA	7.25
Roa5y	6.67
ROCE	14.37
ROE	51.54
Roe5y	39.99
ROIC	12.87
Roic5y	12.62

Growth

Revenue, earnings, cash-flow, and forward growth indicators.

Metric	Value
Cagr10y	15.39%
Cagr15y	14.18%
Cagr1y	2.14%
Cagr20y	12.29%
Cagr3y	12.21%
Cagr5y	10.18%
Div CAGR10	11.07%
Div CAGR3	7.42%
Div CAGR5	31.09%
EPS Growth	6.71
EPS Growth Q	-3.3
EPS Growth Years	5
EPS Growth3 Y	7.27
FCF Growth	-3.08%
FCF Growth3 Y	1.73%
FCF Growth5 Y	29.91%
OCF Growth	4.04%
OCF Growth10 Y	9.57%
OCF Growth3 Y	5.38%
OCF Growth5 Y	26.35%
Revenue Growth	8.51x
Revenue Growth Q	5.93x
Revenue Growth Quarters	20x
Revenue Growth Years	4x
Revenue Growth3 Y	7.34x
Revenue Growth5 Y	15.58x

Financial strength

Debt, cash, solvency, accounting-quality, and balance-sheet signals.

Metric	Value
Asset Turnover	$1
Assets	$12.9B
Cash	$240.4M
Current Assets	$1B
Current Liabilities	$2.6B
Debt	$8.2B
Debt EBITDA	$3.31
Debt Equity	$3.88
Debt FCF	$7.98
Equity	$2.1B
Interest Coverage	7.67
Liabilities	$10.8B
Long Term Assets	$11.9B
Long Term Liabilities	$8.2B
Net Cash	$-7.9B
Net Cash By Market Cap	$-35.22
Net Debt EBITDA	$3.94
Net Debt Equity	$3.76
Net Debt FCF	$7.75
Tangible Book Value	$-900.6M
Tangible Book Value Per Share	$-7.85
WACC	6.07

Liquidity

Current-asset coverage and working-capital efficiency metrics.

Metric	Value
Current ratio	0.39
Inventory Turnover	29.91
Net Working Capital	$-1.3B
Quick ratio	0.13
Working Capital	$-1.6B
Working Capital Turnover	$-8.5

Dividends and buybacks

Dividend yield, payout, buybacks, and shareholder-yield indicators.

Metric	Value
Buyback Yield	1.58%
Dividend Growth	7.14%
Dividend Growth Years	5%
Dividend per share	$6
Dividend Years	32
Dividend Yield	3.06%
Ex Div Date	2026-04-10
Last Dividend	$1.5
Payout Frequency	Quarterly
Payout Ratio	63.45%

Performance and technicals

Returns, volatility, beta, momentum, RSI, and moving-average context.

Metric	Value
10Y total return	318.39%
1Y total return	2.14%
200-day SMA	196.4
3Y total return	41.31%
50-day SMA	199.3
50-day SMA vs 200-day SMA	50over200
5Y total return	62.35%
All Time High	228.3
All Time High Change	-14.04%
All Time High Date	2025-06-20
All Time Low	4.5
All Time Low Change	4,260.67%
All Time Low Date	1997-02-20
ATR	5.56
Beta	0.59
Beta1y	0.69
Beta2y	0.46
Ch YTD	6.64
High	201
High52	228.3
High52 Date	2025-06-20
High52ch	-14.04%
Low	195
Low52	169
Low52 Date	2025-11-20
Low52ch	16.11%
Ma50ch	-1.56%
Premarket Change Percent	2.47
Premarket Price	$200
Premarket Volume	2,724
Price vs 200-day SMA	-0.08%
RSI	48.15
RSI Monthly	54.37
RSI Weekly	48.32
Sharpe ratio	0.05x
Sortino ratio	0.29
Total Return	4.63%
Tr YTD	8.26
Tr15y	630.72%
Tr1m	3.73%
Tr1w	0.75%
Tr3m	-8.57%

Analyst estimates

Ratings, targets, revisions, and forward estimate fields.

Metric	Value
Analyst Count	25
Analyst Count Top	6
Analyst Price Target Top	$225
Analyst Ratings	Buy
Analyst Ratings Top	Buy
Earnings EPS Estimate	$3.64
Earnings EPS Estimate Growth	22.15
Earnings Revenue Estimate	3,729,172,552x
Earnings Revenue Estimate Growth	14.01x
Operating Income	$1.5B
Operating Income Growth	7.24
Operating Income Growth Q	5.19
Operating Income Growth3 Y	8.49
Operating Income Growth5 Y	63.98
Operating margin	11.57
Price target	$227
Price Target Change	$15.43
Price Target Change Top	$14.46

Ownership and float

Institutional, insider, float, short-interest, and share-count fields.

Metric	Value
Float	114,016,506%
Float Percent	99.55%
Net Borrowing	212,500,000
Shares Insiders	0.35%
Shares Institutions	100.25%
Shares Out	114,535,003
Shares Qo Q	-0.77%
Shares Yo Y	-1.58%
Short Float	4.53%
Short Ratio	3
Short Shares	4.51

Other indicators

Additional ticker metrics that do not fit the primary research groupings yet.

Metric	Value
Adjusted FCF	$941M
Average Volume	1,095,406.65x
Bv Per Share	18.34
CAPEX	$-712.9M
Ch10y	214
Ch15y	305.2
Ch1m	2.94
Ch1w	0.75
Ch1y	-0.89
Ch20y	402
Ch3m	-9.27
Ch3y	28.18
Ch5y	37.82
Ch6m	10.2
Change	0.54%
Change From Open	-1.7
Close	195.2
Days Gap	2.28
Depreciation Amortization	531,600,000
Dollar Volume	172,212,625.4
Earnings Date	2026-06-22
Earnings Time	bmo
EBIT	$1.5B
EBITDA	$2B
EPS	$9.46
F Score	6
FCF	$1B
FCF EV Yield	3.36x
FCF Per Share	$8.92
Financing CF	-1,023,400,000
Fiscal Year End	May
Founded	1,968
Goodwill	1,658,200,000
Graham Number	62.47533
Graham Upside	-68.16
Income Tax	$149.6M
Investing CF	-701,800,000
Is Primary Listing	1
Is Spac	No
Last Earnings Date	2026-03-19
Last Report Date	2026-02-22
Last Split Date	2002-05-02
Last Split Type	Forward
Last10k Filing Date	2025-07-18
Lynch Fair Value	$49.57
Lynch Upside	-74.74
Ma150	194.2
Ma150ch	1.04%
Ma20	197.5
Ma20ch	-0.64%
Net CF	9,800,000
Next Earnings Date	2026-06-22
Open	199.6
Optionable	Yes
P FCF Ratio	21.99
P OCF Ratio	12.95
Payment Date	2026-05-01
Position In Range	21.02
Ppne	8,462,500,000
Pre Close	195.2
Price Date	2026-05-08
Price EBITDA	$11.19
Relative Volume	0.8x
Revenue	12,763,800,000x
SBC By Revenue	0.64x
Share Based Comp	81,100,000
Tax By Revenue	1.17x
Tax Rate	11.88%
Tr20y	916.47%
Tr6m	11.88%
Us State	Florida
Volume	877,606
Z Score	2.49

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Moat score

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Forward P/E

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Income

DRI dividend yield, growth & safety

Yield, payout sustainability, and the multi-year growth streak.

Dividend yield

+3.1%

$6.00 annual per share

Payout ratio

+63.4%

Share of earnings returned as dividends. Below 60% is generally sustainable.

5Y dividend CAGR

+31.1%

5 consecutive years of growth

Total shareholder yield

+4.6%

Next ex-dividend date: 2026-04-10

Performance

DRI stock returns vs the market

Total return (incl. dividends) compared to S&P 500.

Ownership

Who owns DRI?

Insider, institutional, and short-interest positioning.

Institutional ownership

+100.2%

Float: +99.5% of shares outstanding

Insider ownership

+0.3%

Stake held by company insiders. Higher generally signals alignment.

Negative means the company is buying back shares.

Technical

DRI momentum and risk profile

RSI, moving-average stack, beta, and risk-adjusted return.

RSI (14)

48.1

Neutral momentum band

Price vs 200-day MA

-0.1%

50/200-day relationship not available

Beta (5Y)

0.59

Less volatile than the market

Sharpe ratio

0.05

Risk-adjusted return — higher is better; >1.0 is solid.

Peers

DRI vs. sector cohort

Currency-neutral comparison: P/E, P/S, ROIC, 5Y revenue CAGR, and 1Y total return. Market-cap column appears only when every peer reports in the same currency.

Ticker	Name	Market cap	P/E	P/S	ROIC	5Y rev CAGR	1Y total return	Rating
ABNB	Airbnb Inc.	84B	34.7x	6.6x	15.9%	+29.9%	+14.9%	Halten
AMZN	Amazon.com Inc.	2.9T	32.6x	3.9x	13.5%	+12.1%	+44.5%	Reduzieren
BKNG	Booking Holdings Inc.	128.6B	21.8x	4.6x	57.9%	+37.4%	-19.6%	Kaufen

Questions

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