Darden Restaurants, Inc.

DRI · Consumer Cyclical

$197.66
-0.62% today

What a holder would want to know before buying DRI: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $169.21 · Nov 2025High $227.68 · Aug 2026

Today’s price is 17% above the lowest point of the past year and 13% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 42% of days and more expensive on 58%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 90% of days.

3% below its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 5 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 73%; the longest took 20 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 13% below the Aug 2026 peak.

Jun 2025
−25%back in 14 months
Mar 2024
−22%back in 9 months
Jul 2023
−22%back in 7 months
Sep 2021
−30%back in 20 months
Sep 2019
−73%back in 17 months
What you own

Darden Restaurants, Inc. · Consumer Cyclical · Restaurants · a large company worth $22.36B

Darden Restaurants, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates full-service restaurants in the United States and Canada. The company operates under Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch…

Is it making money?
2023
2024
2025
2026

revenue profit

Sales of $13.21B in 2026, with $1.21B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 9 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$220.50M
Debt
$8.59B
Free cash flow / yr
$794.79M

Would need about 11 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $19 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $16 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 3.23% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Oct 9.

What others are doing

28 analysts: 18 say buy, 9 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $233.44 (range $163.00–$276.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 9 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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