Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI)

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $7.2 billion in fiscal 2017 to $13 billion in fiscal 2026, up 7% a year; it rose in 7 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 15% from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2021; net income was positive in 9 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2026-05-31, Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.8% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 68% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 28 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-19 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2026-05-31, Darden Restaurants, Inc. earned about 55 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 21 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 83 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2026 ranks in the top 6% by size; a net margin of 9.1% ranks in the top 15%; revenue growth of 8% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the top 43% (its annual reports).

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Cardenas, Ricardo (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2022-06-23, 4.4 years (top 47% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 9.4 years (top 5%); 5 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (top 11%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2026): cash of $220 million against debt of $1.6 billion leaves -11% of its assets as net cash, bottom 45% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 8.5% of revenue (top 30%); a gross margin of 20.3% (bottom 17%) (its annual report).

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2026: revenue grew 8% a year over the last three filed years against 7% over all 10, speeding up (top 32% of its family); the newest year grew 9.2% (top 27%); capital spending grew 9.1% a year (top 46%) (its annual reports). Darden Restaurants, Inc. reported 4 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Olive Garden at $5.2 billion, Long Horn Steakhouse at $3.0 billion, All Other at $2.5 billion, and 1 more. 4 of 4 grew in the latest filed year, and the largest line is 43% of revenue (its annual report).

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Darden Restaurants, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $13 billion in fiscal 2026 came in 1.9% above the $13 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 22% of its family); net income of $1.2 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.0 billion (top 29%); a net margin of 9.1% against 9% before (top 35%) (its annual reports).