DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. vs SHAKE SHACK INC., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Darden Restaurants dwarfs Shake Shack in scale and returns, though both are casual and better-burger dining respectively. Darden, operator of Olive Garden and other chains, returns 52.55% on equity, keeps 8.66% of revenue, and pays a 2.62% dividend at 22.64 times earnings. Shake Shack returns 7.43% on equity, keeps 2.76% of sales, and trades far richer at 58.1 times, the price of its growth phase. Both invest heavily, with Darden posting a negative 5.43% free cash flow yield and Shake Shack a positive but slim 0.69%. Darden, at $24.7B, is more than ten times the size of Shake Shack's $2.3B.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | DRI | SHAK |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $204.32 | $58.61 |
| Market cap | $23.7B | $2.4B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Growth |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +1.7% | — |
| P/E | 21.7 | 59.8 |
| P/B | 11.25 | 4.26 |
| P/S | 1.85 | 1.58 |
| EV/EBITDA | 12.9 | 13.8 |
| Revenue growth | +8.6% | +16.2% |
| Gross margin | 21.0% | — |
| Operating margin | 12.2% | -0.7% |
| Net margin | 8.7% | 2.8% |
| Return on equity | 52.5% | 7.4% |
| Return on assets | 8.6% | 2.1% |
| Return on invested capital | 27.8% | 5.6% |
| FCF yield | -5.7% | 0.7% |
| Dividend yield | 2.7% | — |
| Debt / equity | 1.16 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 0.39 | 1.69 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.24 | 1.97 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 6 / 9 |
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