DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. vs Texas Roadhouse, Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where DRI and TXRH diverge most: on implied growth (priced in), DRI reads -1.3% and TXRH reads +14.7%; on debt / equity, DRI reads 1.26 and TXRH reads 0.03. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's DRI price has a different growth bar priced in than TXRH (-1.3% implied for DRI vs +14.7% for TXRH); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What DRI's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). What TXRH's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | DRI | TXRH |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $197.55 | $161.52 |
| Market cap | $22.6B | $10.6B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | -1.3% | +14.7% |
| P/E | 19.3 | 25.8 |
| P/B | 10.93 | 6.74 |
| P/S | 1.69 | 1.71 |
| EV/EBITDA | 11.7 | 14.9 |
| Revenue growth | +8.0% | +10.0% |
| Gross margin | 18.8% | — |
| Operating margin | 10.0% | 8.5% |
| Net margin | 8.8% | 6.8% |
| Return on equity | 57.2% | 26.7% |
| Return on assets | 8.9% | 11.5% |
| Return on invested capital | 29.1% | 25.6% |
| FCF yield | 5.0% | 3.8% |
| Dividend yield | 3.0% | 1.7% |
| Debt / equity | 1.26 | 0.03 |
| Current ratio | 0.30 | 0.46 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 2.07 | 5.33 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 5 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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