NYSE:DRIDarden Restaurants Stock Price, Forecast & News

Darden Restaurants' stock was trading at $70.21 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, DRI shares have increased by 19.7% and is now trading at $84.07.
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33 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Darden Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 14 hold ratings, 18 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy."
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Darden Restaurants is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, September 17th 2020.
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Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:DRI) released its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, June, 25th. The restaurant operator reported ($1.24) EPS for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of ($1.64) by $0.40. The restaurant operator had revenue of $1.27 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.27 billion. Darden Restaurants had a positive return on equity of 16.68% and a negative net margin of 0.67%. The company's revenue for the quarter was down 43.5% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.76 earnings per share.
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Darden Restaurants announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Stockholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be paid a dividend of $0.88 per share on Monday, February 3rd. This represents a $3.52 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 4.19%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, January 9th.
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Darden Restaurants issued an update on its first quarter 2021 Pre-Market earnings guidance on Thursday, June, 25th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of 0.00 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $-1.72. The company issued revenue guidance of $1.494-1.494 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $1.24 billion.

33 analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Darden Restaurants' stock. Their forecasts range from $50.00 to $135.00. On average, they expect Darden Restaurants' stock price to reach $91.55 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 8.9% from the stock's current price.
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Media headlines about DRI stock have been trending somewhat negative on Saturday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research group scores the sentiment of news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Darden Restaurants earned a media sentiment score of -1.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news articles about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term.
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Darden Restaurants saw a decline in short interest in the month of June. As of June 15th, there was short interest totaling 5,850,000 shares, a decline of 14.2% from the May 31st total of 6,820,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,840,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.5 days.
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Darden Restaurants trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DRI."

Darden Restaurants' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include Vanguard Group Inc. (10.91%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (2.81%), Viking Global Investors LP (2.30%), Newport Trust Co (2.00%), FMR LLC (1.27%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.80%). Company insiders that own Darden Restaurants stock include Charles M Sonsteby, Daniel J Kiernan, David C George, Douglas J Milanes, Eugene I Lee Jr, John W Madonna, M Shan Atkins, Matthew R Broad, Nana Mensah, Ricardo Cardenas, Todd Burrowes and William S Simon.
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DRI stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including California Public Employees Retirement System, Holocene Advisors LP, CWM LLC, Raymond James & Associates, Scout Investments Inc., Vanguard Group Inc., Swiss National Bank, and Cubist Systematic Strategies LLC. Company insiders that have sold Darden Restaurants company stock in the last year include Douglas J Milanes, and Nana Mensah.
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DRI stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Viking Global Investors LP, FMR LLC, Dorsal Capital Management LLC, Impala Asset Management LLC, MERIAN GLOBAL INVESTORS UK Ltd, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Waratah Capital Advisors Ltd., and Victory Capital Management Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Darden Restaurants stock in the last two years include Charles M Sonsteby, David C George, Eugene I Lee Jr, M Shan Atkins, Matthew R Broad, Ricardo Cardenas, and Todd Burrowes.
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Shares of DRI can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of DRI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $84.07.

Darden Restaurants has a market capitalization of $10.92 billion and generates $7.81 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $-52,400,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or $3.13 on an earnings per share basis. Darden Restaurants employs 177,000 workers across the globe.

The official website for Darden Restaurants is www.darden.com.

Darden Restaurants' mailing address is 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL, 32837. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 407-245-4000 or via email at [email protected]