DRI
Darden Restaurants Inc Consumer Discretionary Retail-Eating Places S&P 500Russell 3000
$220.17Close
$25.1BMarket cap
$165.34 – $225.8452-week range
Dec 17, 2026Next report
Highlights
Strengths
- Near its high 3% below its 52-week high
Cautions
- Trend not confirmed 7 of 8 conditions · RS under 70
- Earnings shrinking EPS −7% year on year
- Financial distress Altman Z″ in the distress zone
Price
Filing Results Screen pick 52-week high and low Adjusted prices
Key figures
Off 12-month high
3%
1wk
up 3.7%
price change
1mo
up 14.9%
price change
12-month return
up 26%
market up 11% ·
its own up 13%
F-score
6 / 9
Mixed
Altman Z″
-0.03
Elevated risk
P/E
20.8×
price / earnings
PEG
1.22
P/E / EPS growth
P/B
11.4×
price / book
Earnings yield
up 6.0%
EBIT / enterprise value
Cheaper than
50%
of the market · around average
Revenue growth
up 9%
year on year
EPS growth
down 7%
latest quarter · -44 pts
Sales growth
up 5%
latest quarter · -9 pts
ROE
up 53%
return on equity
Free cash margin
up 8%
$1.1B FCF
D/E
0.74
long-term debt / equity
Net debt / EBITDA
0.7×
Interest cover
—EBIT / interest
Piotroski tests
- short-term liquidity weakened
- gross margin narrowed
- assets working less efficiently
- profitable on its assets
- generating cash from operations
- profitability improving
- profits backed by cash
- reduced long-term debt
- no new shares issued
Repair signals
- Long-term debt down 23% ($2.1B → $1.6B)
Trade setup
ATR%
2.3%
$5.08 a day · 2×ATR $210.01
RS
67 / 99
vs the universe
Trend
7 / 8
RS under 70
Relative volume
0.7×
vs 50-day average
Up/down volume
0.98
50 sessions
Implied move
9.4%
by Dec 18, 2026 · report Dec 17, 2026
Trend template · 7 of 8
- RS rank 70 or higher: fails
Screen verdict
Did not qualify for any screen.
Warning signs
- Bankruptcy model reads distressed The Altman score sits inside the range historically associated with financial distress. It is used here only to exclude, never to rank, and it is a statistical band rather than a prediction about this company.
Last reported
Sep 24, 2026
Results reaction
Sep 24, 2026-7% vs market2 sessions after results
Options
$706,87930.8% IV · activity
Financials
- Gross 20%
- Net 9%
- Free cash 8%
- Cash
- Long-term debt
| FY2021May 30, 2021 | FY2022May 29, 2022 | FY2023May 28, 2023 | FY2024May 26, 2024 | FY2025May 25, 2025 | FY2026May 31, 2026 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue | $7.2B | $9.6B | $10.5B | $11.4B | $12.1B | $13.2B |
| Gross margin | 19% | 20% | 19% | 20% | 20% | 20% |
| Operating income | $648.7M | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.3B | $1.4B | $1.6B |
| Net income | $629.3M | $952.8M | $981.9M | $1.0B | $1.0B | $1.2B |
| Net margin | 9% | 10% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% |
| Earnings per share | $4.77 | $7.39 | $7.99 | $8.51 | $8.86 | $10.38 |
| Free cash flow | $938.6M | $887.7M | $987.9M | $1.0B | $1.1B | $1.1B |
| Free cash margin | 13% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 9% | 8% |
| Cash | $1.2B | $420.6M | $367.8M | $194.8M | $240.0M | $219.5M |
| Long-term debt | $929.8M | $901.0M | $884.9M | $1.4B | $2.1B | $1.6B |
| Shareholders' equity | $2.8B | $2.2B | $2.2B | $2.2B | $2.3B | $2.2B |
| Shares outstanding | 130.80m | 123.90m | 121.10m | 118.90m | 117m | 114.10m |
Next report
Dec 17, 2026
Expected move The move, either way, the option market prices in through the next scheduled report: the at-the-money straddle for the first expiry that contains it, over the price. It includes the days around the report, so it slightly overstates the report alone. Methodology
±9.4%
$199 – $241 by Dec 18, 2026
Usual move The median, over the company's last four reports, of how far the stock moved either way from the close before the filing to the close of the session after it. Methodology
±0.7%
last 4: -6.5% · +0.1% · +1.2% · +0.2%
Expected against usual The move the options price through this report over the move the last four reports delivered. Above 1 the event is priced bigger than the company's own record; below 1, smaller. A price, not a forecast: it says what protection through the report costs, not which way the stock will go. Methodology
Bigger than usual
14.0× the usual move
What options price now
- Expected 1-month range The at-the-money straddle for the expiry nearest a month out, as a share of the price: the move, either way, the option market is pricing by then. The range is the price plus and minus that move; the stock ends inside it a little more often than not. Methodology
- $208 – $233 ±5.7% by Nov 20, 2026
- Swings expected vs recent The daily swings the options are priced for (implied volatility) against the swings the stock actually had over the last 20 sessions (realised volatility). Bigger means options charge for more movement than the stock has been delivering; smaller, less. On a contract row, that contract's own implied volatility over the stock's realised. Methodology
- Bigger 30.8% priced · 21.6% recent
- Next month vs later At-the-money implied volatility for 8-45 day expiries over 46-90 day ones: whether options price the coming month as choppier or calmer than the two after it. Ahead of a report it usually reads choppier, and the extra comes out once the report is out. Methodology
- Calmer
- Crash protection What options that pay off in a fall cost against options that pay off in a rise (the 25-delta skew), compared with this company's own normal - the median of its stored nightly readings, once there are 20 - and with five sessions ago. Protection costs a little more than upside on most shares. More than usual means readers of the chain are paying up to insure against a drop; it does not say which way the stock will go. Methodology
- past week: costs more
Positioning
- Premium traded
- $706,879 calls $35,020 · puts $671,859 · latest session
- 19.19× +19.08 over the week
- Open interest added The change over five sessions in option positions left open overnight, calls and puts. A rise means positions were added. It cannot say whether they were bought or sold, so more calls is not a vote for a rise: a call is as often sold against shares already held. Methodology
- calls +515 · puts +56 past week
For options traders: ATM IV 30.8% (-0.5% 1w) · 1m ÷ 3m IV 0.95 · 25Δ skew 3.1 pts · Net GEX $2.1M
Most traded contracts
No contract passed the liquidity filters this week.
Filings
| Filed | Report | Period to | Lag |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Aug 30, 2026 | 33d |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Annual ↗ | May 31, 2026 | 54d |
| Mar 27, 2026 | Quarterly ↗ | Feb 22, 2026 | 33d |
| Dec 30, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Nov 23, 2025 | 37d |
| Sep 26, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Aug 24, 2025 | 33d |
| Jul 18, 2025 | Annual ↗ | May 25, 2025 | 54d |
| Apr 1, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Feb 23, 2025 | 37d |
| Jan 2, 2025 | Quarterly ↗ | Nov 24, 2024 | 39d |
| Sep 27, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Aug 25, 2024 | 33d |
| Jul 19, 2024 | Annual ↗ | May 26, 2024 | 54d |
| Apr 2, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Feb 25, 2024 | 37d |
| Jan 3, 2024 | Quarterly ↗ | Nov 26, 2023 | 38d |
Current reports
| Filed | Disclosed |
|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2026 | Material agreement · Agreement ended · New obligation ↗ |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Shareholder vote ↗ |
| Sep 24, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Jun 25, 2026 | Results · Charter or bylaws ↗ |
| Mar 19, 2026 | Results ↗ |
| Dec 18, 2025 | Results ↗ |
| Sep 19, 2025 | Director or officer change · Shareholder vote ↗ |
| Sep 18, 2025 | Results ↗ |
| Jun 20, 2025 | Results · Director or officer change ↗ |
| Mar 20, 2025 | Results ↗ |
| Jan 28, 2025 | Director or officer change ↗ |
| Dec 19, 2024 | Results ↗ |