Darden Restaurants, Inc (DRI) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $199.01, with 3.18 million shares of worth about $632.29 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 23.20% during that period and on March 20, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 5.77%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 117.20M shares, out of which, 116.67M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 9.87% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 1.10%. Year-to-date (YTD), DRI shares are showing a performance of 6.60% which increased to 15.12% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $135.87 but also hit the highest price of $203.12 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Darden Restaurants, Inc shares is 1.21 million. The stock is currently trading 3.43% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 3.88% for SMA50 and it goes to 19.09% higher than SMA200.
Darden Restaurants, Inc (NYSE: DRI) currently have 117.20M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 96.43% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $23.31B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.99. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 22.82, while it has posted earnings per share of $8.72 in the same period. Its PEG reads 2.46 and has Quick Ratio of 0.23 while making debt-to-equity ratio of 3.89. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for DRI, volatility over the week remained 2.51% while standing at 2.72% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 6.95% while it is estimated to increase by 12.99% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 9.28% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 8.38% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Bernstein on January 22, 2025 offering an Outperform rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $180 and $215 to it. Coverage by Goldman stated Darden Restaurants, Inc (DRI) stock as a Neutral in their note to investors on December 05, 2024, suggesting a price target of $183 for the stock. On September 20, 2024, Evercore ISI Upgrade their recommendations, while on September 20, 2024, Bernstein Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $180. Stock get a Hold rating from TD Cowen on July 23, 2024.
