DRI Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Darden Restaurants | NYSE:DRI)

Darden Restaurants is the largest restaurant operator in the US full-service space, with consolidated revenue of $12.1 billion in fiscal 2025. The company maintains a portfolio of 11 restaurant brands: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Ruth's Chris Steak House, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V's, Bahama Breeze, The Capital Burger, and Chuy's. Darden generates revenue almost exclusively from company-owned restaurants, though a small network of franchised restaurants and consumer-packaged goods sales through the traditional grocery channel contribute modestly. At the end of fiscal 2025, the company operated 2,159 restaurants in the US.

Darden Restaurants trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol DRI.

As of March 6, 2026, DRI stock price declined to $203.18 with 1,180,361 million shares trading.

DRI has a beta of 0.49, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DRI has a correlation of 0.08 to the broad based SPY ETF.

DRI has a market cap of $23.63 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Darden Restaurants reported $3 billion in Revenue and $2.08 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $25 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.01.

In the last 3 years, DRI traded as high as $228.27 and as low as $133.36.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that DRI belongs to (by Net Assets): SCHD, VTI, VOO, VO, IVV.

DRI has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +7.4% while the SPY ETF gained +16.6%. However, in the short term, DRI had mixed performance relative to the market. It has outperformed in the last 3 months, returning +15.2% vs -1.7% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, DRI shares have been beat by the market, returning -4.6% compared to an SPY return of -1.8%.

DRI support price is $202.37 and resistance is $210.05 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that DRI shares will trade within this expected range on the day.