DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC.
At today's price, DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. (DRI) is priced for +0.7% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
At $213.27 the price embeds only about 3.1% annual operating-profit growth, a modest bar Darden cleared in fiscal 2026 with sales up 9.4% to $13.21 billion, Olive Garden comps up 4.0%, and LongHorn up 7.2%. The headline 52.6% ROE is leverage-inflated: return on invested capital reads near 4.3% against a roughly 8.2% cost of capital, the product of heavy buybacks shrinking book value to about $18.17 per share on top of $8.1 billion of debt. The valuation rests on a sector multiple holding (rela
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996 institutional managers reported holding DRI in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 94% of the company; the top 10 hold 57%. 114 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Capital Group (American Funds), Vanguard Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 7.0M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 6% of shares outstanding (6.5 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
DRI has cut its share count 11.7% over the past five years, spending $4.92B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 5 years straight; the current rate is $5.60 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $2.78B in dividends and $2.13B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at DRI over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 22 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
DRI's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-22 | -3.1% | -15.8% |
| 2023-09-30 | -4.0% | +11.7% |
| 2024-01-04 | -0.4% | +7.6% |
| 2024-04-03 | -5.4% | -7.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
DRI's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-25 (items 2.02, 5.03, 9.01); 2026-03-19 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-12-18 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2025-09-19 (items 5.02, 5.07, 9.01); 2025-09-18 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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