Darden Restaurants
$200.33Change from previous close: +1.48%Absolute change: +$2.92
Valuation
Data as of October 5, 2026
Valuation multiples
- Market cap
- $22.67B
- Enterprise value
- $31.04B
- P/E (trailing 12 months)
- 19.4
- Forward P/E
- 17.5
- PEG
- 1.94
- Price/book
- 11.0
- Price/sales
- 1.70
- EV/EBITDA
- 14.5
- EV/revenue
- 2.32
Profitability and growth
- Gross margin
- 21.7%
- Operating margin
- 11.9%
- Net margin
- 8.8%
- ROE
- 55.4%
- ROA
- 7.7%
- ROIC
- 13.6%
Financial health
- Total cash
- $220.5M
- Total debt
- $8.59B
- Debt/equity
- 4.15
- Current ratio
- 0.30
- Quick ratio
- 0.11
- Altman Z-Score
- 2.41
- Piotroski F-Score
- 6.00
Dividends
- Annual dividend per share
- $6.48
- Dividend yield
- 3.2%
- Payout ratio
- 63.2%
- Ex-dividend date
- October 9, 2026
Analysts and estimates
- Average price target
- $234.44
- Analysts with a price target
- 27
- Consensus
- Buy
Shares and trading
- Beta
- 0.62
- Average volume
- 1.33M
- Shares outstanding
- 113.14M
- Float
- 113.02M
- Institutional ownership
- 101.1%
- Insider ownership
- 0.4%
- Short interest (% of float)
- 5.4%
- Short ratio (days)
- 6.08