DRI

Darden Restaurants, Inc.
NYSEUSDEQUITY Consumer Cyclical DELAYED
Last price
202.71
▲ 2.99 (1.50%)
MARKET · —

Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
200.52
Prev close
199.72
Day high
203.47
Day low
199.10
Volume
993.52K
Market cap
$22.98B
P/E (TTM)
19.44
52W range
169.00 – 229.76

Day trading desk

Current session · delayed
Gap from prior close
+0.40%
Prior close 199.72
VWAP
202.58
+0.06% from price
Relative volume
1.03×
Normal
Session range
2.21%
199.10 – 203.50
Position in range
82%
Near session high
ATR (14D)
5.05
2.49% of price
Prior day high
202.49
PDH
Prior day low
196.80
PDL
Bid / ask spread
—
Quote not published
Session volume
1.27M
Avg 1.23M

VWAP and the session figures are computed from the delayed intraday series on this page, so they lag the live tape and will not match a broker's real-time VWAP exactly. Turn on Prior day H/L/C, Opening range and Volume profile in the chart's Studies menu to see these levels drawn on price.

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
+4.12% +2.2%
1M
-6.34% -7.5%
3M
+1.01% -3.5%
6M
+6.56% -11.6%
YTD
+10.39% -3.9%
1Y
+5.16% -11.3%
3Y
+41.84% -40.4%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

Account required
Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
Free account required

Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

Free account

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
+63.65K
Net buying
Buy transactions
17
142.13K shares
Sell transactions
9
78.48K shares
Net transactions
+26
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
0.6 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
342.82K
Total on file
Bought 142.13KSold 78.48K

Insider transactions

Account required
DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 29, 26
MADONNA JOHN W.
Officer
STOCK 585 $0 Direct
Aug 28, 26
KENNINGHAM DARYL A
Director
— 150 — Direct
Aug 5, 26
WILKERSON JOHN W
Officer
CONVERSION 6.36K $790.66K Direct
Aug 5, 26
WILKERSON JOHN W
Officer
SELL 8.86K $1.85M Direct
Jul 31, 26
WILLIAMSON LAURA B
Officer
SELL 1.55K $317.56K
Jul 29, 26
CONNELLY SUSAN M.
Officer
SELL 2.23K $463.39K Direct
Jul 29, 26
VENNAM RAJESH
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 8.48K $1.78M Direct
Jul 29, 26
KING SARAH H
Officer
SELL 4.37K $920.16K Direct
Jul 28, 26
CARDENAS RICARDO
Chief Executive Officer
CONVERSION 19.09K $2.37M Direct
Jul 28, 26
CARDENAS RICARDO
Chief Executive Officer
SELL 39.13K $8.18M Direct
Jul 27, 26
MARTIN MELVIN JOHN
Officer
— 10.58K — Direct
Jul 27, 26
VENNAM RAJESH
Chief Financial Officer
— 13.09K — Direct
Jul 27, 26
KOREN LINDSAY L
General Counsel
— 1.10K — Direct
Jul 27, 26
WILLIAMSON LAURA B
Officer
— 2.06K —
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

Free account required

Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
BROAD MATTHEW R
General Counsel 13.91K Stock Gift
BURROWES TODD
Officer 50.74K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
CARDENAS RICARDO
Chief Executive Officer 86.15K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
FOGARTY JAMES PATRICK
Director 26.55K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
KIERNAN DANIEL J
Officer — Sale
MADONNA JOHN W.
Officer 10.81K Stock Gift
MARTIN MELVIN JOHN
Officer 23.73K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
SONSTEBY CHARLES M
Director 19.35K Sale
WILKERSON JOHN W
Officer 19.41K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
WILLIAMSON LAURA B
Officer — Sale

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$22.98B
Enterprise value$31.35B
Revenue (TTM)$13.37B
Gross profit$2.90B
EBITDA$2.14B
Net income$1.19B
EPS (TTM)$10.45
Free cash flow$794.79M
Total cash$220.50M
Total debt$8.59B
Book value / share$18.26
Shares outstanding113.14M
Float112.62M
Short % of float7.25%
Dividend yield3.24%
Beta (5Y)0.62

Valuation & profitability ratios

Account required
Trailing P/E19.44
Forward P/E16.38
PEG ratio2.04
Price / sales—
Price / book11.13
EV / revenue2.35
EV / EBITDA14.64
Gross margin21.66%
Operating margin9.85%
Profit margin8.85%
Return on equity55.43%
Return on assets7.65%
Debt / equity415.30
Current ratio0.30
Free account required

Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 4 years · 6 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2026202520242023YoY
Total revenue $13.21B$12.08B$11.39B$10.49B +9.4%
Operating revenue $13.21B$12.08B$11.39B$10.49B +9.4%
Cost of revenue $10.35B$9.43B$8.96B$8.38B +9.7%
Gross profit $2.86B$2.64B$2.43B$2.11B +8.3%
Selling, general & admin $694.80M$690.20M$623.70M$504.40M +0.7%
Total operating expense $1.26B$1.21B$1.08B$892.20M +4.1%
Operating income $1.61B$1.44B$1.35B$1.22B +11.9%
Net interest income -$194.20M-$175.10M-$138.70M-$81.30M -10.9%
Pre-tax income $1.39B$1.19B$1.18B$1.12B +17.0%
Tax provision $174.90M$136.20M$145.00M$137.00M +28.4%
Net income $1.21B$1.05B$1.03B$981.90M +15.0%
Net income to common $1.21B$1.05B$1.03B$981.90M +15.0%
Basic EPS 10.458.938.578.06 +17.0%
Diluted EPS 10.388.868.517.99 +17.2%
EBIT $1.58B$1.37B$1.32B$1.21B +16.1%
EBITDA $2.15B$1.88B$1.78B$1.60B +14.0%
Basic shares 115.50M117.50M119.90M121.90M -1.7%
Diluted shares 116.30M118.40M120.80M122.90M -1.8%

Options analytics

Account required
Put / call volume
2.22
Put-heavy session
Put / call open interest
0.59
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
210.00
+3.4% from spot
ATM implied vol
23.9%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
+12.0%
Puts bid over calls
Call volume
148
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
329
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
230.00
1.63K contracts
Heaviest put OI
185.00
511 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

Free account required

Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Aug 2026 2.052.05 -0.2%
May 2026 3.643.66 +0.6%
Feb 2026 2.942.95 +0.3%
Nov 2025 2.102.08 -0.8%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 2.25 27 $3.27B +5.5%
Next quarter 3.27 27 $3.54B +5.9%
Current year 11.25 26 $13.70B +3.7%
Next year 12.40 28 $14.54B +6.1%

Analyst targets & ownership

Account required
Mean target$233.44
High target$276.00
Low target$163.00
Implied upside15.16%
Analyst count25
ConsensusBUY
Strong buy / Buy2 / 15
Hold9
Sell / Strong sell0 / 1
Held by insiders0.30%
Held by institutions101.73%
Institutions holding1.45K
Free account required

Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
200.67
+1.02% from price
SMA 20
205.51
-1.15% from price
SMA 50
211.85
-4.11% from price
SMA 100
207.02
-2.08% from price
SMA 200
204.19
-0.51% from price
EMA 12
202.18
+0.26% from price
EMA 26
206.04
-1.62% from price
EMA 50
207.88
-2.49% from price
RSI (14)
46.3
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
-3.86
Hist -0.44
ATR (14)
5.05
2.49% of price
Realised vol 30D
30.4%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
218.98
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
192.03
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
211.85 vs 204.19
Trend bias
Below 200
-0.51%

Options chain

Account required
Expiry
Spot 202.71
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Free account required

Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.26
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.12
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
30.4%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-15.1%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-28.2%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
5.05
2.49% of price
Beta (reported)
0.62
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
6.12M
Prior 6.51M
Change vs prior
-6.0%
Shorts covering
% of float
7.25%
Normal
% of shares out
5.40%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
6.1
Crowded exit
Float
112.62M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

660 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 25, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 Guggenheim MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 Mizuho MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 25, 26 Freedom Capital Markets MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 BMO Capital MAINTAINED Market Perform Market Perform
Sep 25, 26 BTIG MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 25, 26 Stephens & Co. MAINTAINED Equal-Weight Equal-Weight
Sep 24, 26 TD Cowen MAINTAINED Hold Hold
Sep 21, 26 Freedom Capital Markets MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 16, 26 Seaport Global INITIATED — Buy
Sep 15, 26 Oppenheimer MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Sep 14, 26 Morgan Stanley MAINTAINED Overweight Overweight

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate$6.48 / yr
Forward yield3.24%
5-year avg yield3.07%
Payout ratio59.42%
Ex-dividend dateOct 9, 2026
Next pay dateNov 2, 2026
Last split10000:8939
Split dateNov 10, 2015

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