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Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI)

Consumer Cyclical · Restaurants · Large-cap · updated October 16, 2026

NOT A BUY TODAY
What this means. Darden Restaurants, Inc. is an average business by our measures, its shares look expensive compared with other stocks, and its share price has been doing well.
Value26
Quality56
Price trend72
Overall44
1999 of 2764rank among the US stocks we score (our core model buys the top 15)
28%of US stocks we score rank below it

Scores are 0 to 100 against every US stock we track; 50 is average. Recomputed after every US market close.

The business in numbers

Fiscal year to May 2026, from the company's annual filing with the SEC.

Salesyearly sales$13.2B
Sales growthchange from the year before+9.4%
Gross marginshare of sales left after the direct cost of what it sells20.3%
Operating marginshare of sales left after running the business12.0%
Net marginshare of sales kept as profit9.1%
Return on invested capitalprofit made on each $100 put into the business29.6%
Return on equityprofit vs. shareholders' accounting value58.0%
Debt / equitydebt vs. shareholders' accounting value1.03
Interest coverhow many times profit covers interest payments12.5x
Change in share countnegative = the company is buying back its shares-1.8%

Insider trades, last 90 days

5 insiders sold $11.7M on the open market.

Williamson Laura BPresident, LongHorn SteakhouseSoldJul 311,553 shat $204.48 · $318K
King Sarah H.SVP, Chief People OfficerSoldJul 294,373 shat $210.42 · $920K
Connelly Susan M.SVP, Chief Comm & PA OfficerSoldJul 292,226 shat $208.17 · $463K

From Form 4 filings with the SEC. Open-market trades only. "Plan" = a sale set up in advance under a 10b5-1 plan, usually routine.

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