Darden Restaurants (DRI)
Consumer · NYSE · US
Price as at 30 Sept 2026, 17:36 UTC. Quotes are delayed.
Fundamentals
Valuation and ratings
Darden Restaurants trades at $194.96, which is 106% below the $401.94 our fair value estimate puts on the business. On that measure alone it screens as undervalued, though a valuation model is an argument rather than a measurement, and the market is frequently right about why something is cheap.
Our moat model scores it 51 out of 100, which is a moat, but not a deep one. A moat is a structural reason competitors cannot take the profits away, and it matters more to a long holding period than any single quarter's numbers do.
It changes hands at 19.6 times earnings. Be careful reading that in isolation: for a cyclical business a low P/E arrives at the top of the cycle, when profits are peaking and about to fall, which is exactly when the shares look cheapest and are not.
DRI dividend history
Dividends per share by year
| Year | Total per share | Payments |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 (year to date) | $4.62 | 3 |
| 2025 | $5.80 | 4 |
| 2024 | $5.42 | 4 |
| 2023 | $5.04 | 4 |
| 2022 | $4.62 | 4 |
| 2021 | $3.45 | 4 |
| 2020 | $1.18 | 2 |
| 2019 | $3.26 | 4 |
| 2018 | $2.76 | 4 |
| 2017 | $2.38 | 4 |
| 2016 | $2.12 | 4 |
Split-adjusted amounts in the listing currency, grouped by the calendar year of the ex-dividend date, from the filed record. Growth and streak figures compare complete years only.
DRI earnings and analyst estimates
Recommendation mix, 28 published ratings
Estimates are the published analyst consensus and move often. An earnings date is scheduled, not certain, and a share tends to reprice most violently on the day itself.
About Darden Restaurants
Darden Restaurants, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, owns and operates full-service restaurants in the United States and Canada. The company operates under Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Chuy's, Yard House, Ruth's Chris Steak House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, Bahama Breeze, The Capital Burger, Darden and Darden Restaurants brand names. Darden Restaurants, Inc. was founded in 1938 and is based in Orlando, Florida.
Company profile, industry and headcount are as reported by our data provider and can lag a company's own filings by a reporting period. The annual report is the authority.
DRI passes 5 of our 30 screens today
Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.
Super investor ownership
9 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:
- Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$153.00M · 0.1% of book
- Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$149.51M · 0.1% of book
- Two Sigma, TWO SIGMA INVESTMENTS, LP$72.38M · 0.1% of book
- Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$11.89M · 0.0% of book
- Ken Griffin, CITADEL ADVISORS LLC$10.68M · 0.0% of book
A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.
Politician trades in DRI
We hold 11 disclosed trades in DRI by members of Congress and executive-branch officials. The latest 5:
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 15 May 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 5 May 2026 · disclosed 1 Jul 2026
- Josh Gottheimer · HouseSell · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 9 Apr 2026 · disclosed 19 May 2026
- Alan Armstrong · SenateBuy · $1,001 - $15,000 · traded 27 Mar 2026 · disclosed 21 Jul 2026
- Donald J Trump · Executive branchBuy · $15,001 - $50,000 · traded 8 Jul 2024 · disclosed 22 Sept 2026
A disclosure reports a value band, not an amount, and is due up to 45 days after the trade; some arrive later. Every filer we track, each with their own page, is on the Congress trading tracker.
DRI peers
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Common questions
Is Darden Restaurants (DRI) undervalued?
Against our fair value estimate of $401.94, DRI at $194.96 is 106% below fair value. That is one model's answer, not a recommendation. It is built from normalized earning power with growth capped deliberately low, which understates companies whose value is mostly future growth.
Which funds own DRI?
9 of the institutions we track reported a position in DRI in their most recent SEC 13F filing. A 13F is filed up to 45 days after quarter end, so it tells you what a fund held then, not what it holds now.
What is DRI's P/E ratio?
DRI trades at 19.6 times earnings. A low P/E is not automatically cheap: on a cyclical company it is usually a warning that earnings are at a peak.
Does Darden Restaurants (DRI) pay a dividend?
Yes. Darden Restaurants yields 3.00% at the current share price. It has paid $6.12 per share over the trailing twelve months. It has paid a dividend in each of the last 31 complete calendar years. A dividend is declared by the board and can be cut at any time; a yield is a fact about the current price, not a promise.
Where does SteadyShares get its DRI data?
Fundamentals for DRI come from company filings and exchange data, as listed on NYSE; institutional ownership comes from SEC 13F filings. The share price shown was last refreshed on 30 Sept 2026, 17:36 UTC and is delayed. Metrics we do not hold are left out of the page rather than estimated.
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Data from company filings, exchange quotes and SEC EDGAR 13F disclosures. Quotes are delayed. Metrics we do not have are left out rather than estimated. Educational information, not financial advice.