NYSE:DRI - Darden 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. Since then, DRI stock has decreased by 34.5% and is now trading at $46.02. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

23 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Darden Restaurants in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 11 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Darden Restaurants.

Darden Restaurants is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, June 18th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Darden Restaurants.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:DRI) posted its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, March, 19th. The restaurant operator reported $1.90 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the consensus estimate of $1.88 by $0.02. The restaurant operator earned $2.35 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.33 billion. Darden Restaurants had a net margin of 7.25% and a return on equity of 32.51%. Darden Restaurants's revenue for the quarter was up 4.5% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $1.80 earnings per share. View Darden Restaurants' earnings history.

Darden Restaurants announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, December 19th. Shareholders of record on Friday, January 10th will be given a dividend of $0.88 per share on Monday, February 3rd. This represents a $3.52 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 7.65%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, January 9th. View Darden Restaurants' dividend history.

23 brokers have issued 1 year price objectives for Darden Restaurants' stock. Their forecasts range from $46.00 to $135.00. On average, they expect Darden Restaurants' share price to reach $89.33 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 94.1% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Darden Restaurants.

Media coverage about DRI stock has been trending somewhat positive recently, InfoTrie reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of press coverage by reviewing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Darden Restaurants earned a news impact score of 0.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the stock's share price in the near term. View the latest news aboutDarden Restaurants.

Darden Restaurants saw a increase in short interest in March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 5,433,900 shares, an increase of 6.1% from the February 27th total of 5,120,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,610,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 3.4 days. Approximately 4.5% of the company's shares are sold short. View Darden Restaurants' Current Options Chain.

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Darden Restaurants trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "DRI."

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One share of DRI stock can currently be purchased for approximately $46.02.

Darden Restaurants has a market capitalization of $5.64 billion and generates $8.51 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $713.40 million in net income (profit) each year or $5.82 on an earnings per share basis. Darden Restaurants employs 185,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about Darden Restaurants.

The official website for Darden Restaurants is http://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]