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Darden Restaurants is the largest global full-service dining operator, with over $13 billion in system sales across 2,202 company-owned stores at the end of fiscal 2026, spanning the US and Canada. The firm operates 10 banners in four segments, including Olive Garden (42% of sales), LongHorn Steakhouse (26%), and fine dining (21%), which includes The Capital Grille, Ruth's Chris, and Eddie V's. The other 11% of sales comes from smaller concepts such as Yard House and Cheddar's. Darden primarily generates revenue through sales of food and beverage items at its company-owned restaurants. It also earns royalties on sales from 167 franchised locations in US and international markets, which sit within the other segment but are immaterial to consolidated results.
Darden Restaurants trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol DRI.
As of October 12, 2026, DRI stock price climbed to $199.61 with 967,448 million shares trading.
DRI has a beta of 0.76, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. DRI has a correlation of 0.14 to the broad based SPY ETF.
DRI has a market cap of $22.86 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Darden Restaurants reported $3 billion in Revenue and $2.05 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-6 million and met earnings estimates .
In the last 3 years, DRI traded as high as $229.76 and as low as $133.36.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that DRI belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, SCHD, VO, IVV.
DRI has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +12.0% while the SPY ETF gained +17.1%. DRI has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning +1.3% and +0.7%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.8% and +0.9%, respectively.
DRI support price is $194.50 and resistance is $200.82 (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.