Darden Restaurants, Inc.
212.40USD
-5.1600 (-2.37%)
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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 Kitchen, Chuy's, Yard House, Ruth's Chris Steak House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, Bahama Breeze, The Capital Burger, Darden and Darden Restaurants brand names. Darden Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is based in Orlando, Florida.
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Reading the stored fundamentals…
Dated 52-week rows are the highest and lowest CLOSE and the day each happened, which sits a little inside the intraday range a vendor quotes. Quotes are refreshed once a night — during a session the price above is the previous close.
Is the price low against peers, cash flow and analyst targets?
Do analysts expect earnings and revenue to keep growing?
1 of 6 checks could not be assessed (there is no analyst coverage stored).
Has the business grown and earned good returns on its filed numbers?
Can the balance sheet carry its debt?
Is the dividend decent, covered and steady?
Each axis asks six plain questions of the stored data. A check that passes counts one. A check the stored data cannot answer is left out of the count, never counted as a fail, and an axis needs four answerable checks to show a result. Axes are never added together: there is no overall score. The thresholds are conventional rules of thumb and are blunt across sectors, so each check is listed with its rule and the figure it used.
P/E below peers
Trailing P/E is positive and below the median of its peers: the companies in its industry if there are at least 5, else its sector if at least 10, else the whole market if at least 30, always in the same currency.
P/E 20.6 against a peer median of 19.3 (11 USD companies in Restaurants).
Did not pass
PEG ratio
The PEG ratio is positive and at most 1.5.
PEG 2.17.
Did not pass
EV/EBITDA below peers
EV/EBITDA is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E. Not applied to financial companies.
EV/EBITDA 15.1 against a peer median of 15.0 (10 USD companies in Restaurants).
Did not pass
Price/book below peers
Price to book is positive and below the peer median, with peers chosen as for P/E.
Price/book 11.63 against a peer median of 2.85 (7 USD companies in Restaurants).
Did not pass
Statements: SEC filings, newest period 08/2026.
Peers: P/E against 11 USD companies in Restaurants; EV/EBITDA against 10 USD companies in Restaurants; price/book against 7 USD companies in Restaurants.
Rules of thumb applied to stored filings and quote data. Statements are as of the newest period shown above; multiples, analyst targets, estimates and yield come from a best-effort refresh and can lag by days. A count of plain checks, not a rating, a valuation or investment advice. Terms
Free cash flow yield
Free cash flow is at least 4.5% of market cap, the risk-free rate used across this site. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow yield 4.4% against a 4.5% risk-free rate.
Did not pass
Analyst target above price
The mean analyst target is at least 15% above the last close, from at least 3 analysts. A published consensus, not a fair value.
Mean analyst target above the last close by 9.9% (25 analysts).
Did not pass
Earnings growth, next year
Consensus EPS for next fiscal year is at least 10% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's EPS: consensus up 10.1% (28 analysts).
Passed
Earnings growth, this year
Consensus EPS for this fiscal year is at least 10% above last year's figure on the same street basis, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's EPS: consensus up 5.8% (27 analysts).
Did not pass
Revenue growth, next year
Consensus revenue for next fiscal year is at least 5% above this year's consensus, from at least 3 analysts.
Next year's revenue: consensus up 6.1% (26 analysts).
Passed
Revenue growth, this year
Consensus revenue for this fiscal year is at least 5% above last year's reported revenue, from at least 3 analysts.
This year's revenue: consensus up 3.7% (27 analysts).
Did not pass
Estimates rising
More analysts raised than cut this year's EPS estimate over the last 90 days, with at least 2 revisions in all.
No analyst estimates are stored for this security.
Not assessed
Revenue growth, latest quarter
Revenue in the latest quarter is at least 8% above the same quarter a year earlier.
Latest-quarter revenue up 5.1% on a year earlier.
Did not pass
Earnings growth, multi-year
Net income grew at least 5% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures, positive at both ends).
Net income grew 13.9% a year, FY2021 to FY2026.
Passed
Earnings growth, last year
Net income over the latest twelve months is above the twelve months before it, and positive.
Net income up 7.5% (twelve months to 08/2026).
Passed
Revenue growth, multi-year
Revenue grew at least 3% a year over up to 5 fiscal years (at least 3 annual figures).
Revenue grew 12.9% a year, FY2021 to FY2026.
Passed
Return on equity
Return on equity is at least 15%: twelve-month net income over average equity. Not meaningful when equity is negative.
Return on equity 55.1%: twelve-month net income over the average equity.
Passed
Return on assets
Return on assets is at least 5%: twelve-month net income over average assets. Not applied to financial companies.
Return on assets 9.1%: twelve-month net income over the average assets.
Passed
Cash earnings
Operating cash flow over the latest twelve months is positive and at least net income. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow was at or above net income over the last twelve months.
Passed
Current ratio
Current assets are at least 1.0x current liabilities. Not applied to financial companies.
Current ratio 0.3x.
Did not pass
Short-term assets cover long-term liabilities
Current assets are at least the liabilities that fall due after a year (total liabilities less current liabilities). Not applied to financial companies.
Current assets are 0.1x the liabilities due after a year.
Did not pass
Debt to equity
Total debt is at most 100% of equity; no debt passes, negative equity with debt does not. Not applied to financial companies.
Total debt is 126% of equity.
Did not pass
Net debt to EBITDA
Net debt (total debt less cash) is at most 3.0x EBITDA; a net cash position passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Net debt is 1.1x EBITDA.
Passed
Interest cover
Operating income covers interest expense at least 3.0x; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating income covers interest 12.4x.
Passed
Cash flow to debt
Operating cash flow is at least 20% of total debt; no debt passes. Not applied to financial companies.
Operating cash flow is 68.4% of total debt.
Passed
Dividend yield
The dividend yield is at least 2%.
Dividend yield 3.05%.
Passed
Payout ratio
Dividends paid are at most 75% of net income. Not applied to real estate companies, whose net income is after depreciation.
Dividends paid were 59% of net income.
Passed
Free cash flow cover
Free cash flow covers the dividends paid at least 1.0x. Not applied to financial companies.
Free cash flow covers dividends 1.5x.
Passed
Paid every year
A dividend was paid in every one of the last 4 to 8 fiscal years stored (consecutive years, all present). A year missing from the filings data is not read as no dividend, so a gap makes this not assessed.
A dividend was paid in all 8 fiscal years, FY2019 to FY2026.
Passed
No cuts
Total dividends paid never fell by more than 20% from one fiscal year to the next in that window.
Total dividends fell 37% in FY2021.
Did not pass
Growing dividend
Total dividends paid grew at least 3% a year across that window. The total, not per share: no per-share dividend history is stored.
Total dividends grew 9.3% a year, FY2019 to FY2026.
Passed