DRI

Darden Restaurants, Inc. ·NYSE·Consumer Discretionary
227.71 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
46.8%
Brown Bear Score
44.3%
Business Conviction Score
70.6%
Position Health Score
66.8%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · +11.0% · range 169.21–227.68

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 8.7%
OCF / assets 14.4%
FCF / revenue 14.0%
Gross margin 21.7%
ROIC 16.1%
Forward P/E 18.4

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2026).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +3.1pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Price and forward earnings growth are broadly in step; no strong valuation lean either way.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-09-16 · consensus EPS 2.07

Q3 23 revenue: 2.73bnQ3 23 net income: 194.50mQ3 23 EPS: 1.59Q4 23 revenue: 2.73bnQ4 23 net income: 212.10mQ4 23 EPS: 1.76Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 2.97bnQ1 24 net income: 312.90mQ1 24 EPS: 2.60Q2 24 revenue: 2.96bnQ2 24 net income: 308.10mQ2 24 EPS: 2.55Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 2.76bnQ3 24 net income: 207.20mQ3 24 EPS: 1.74Q4 24 revenue: 2.89bnQ4 24 net income: 215.10mQ4 24 EPS: 1.82Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 3.16bnQ1 25 net income: 323.40mQ1 25 EPS: 2.74Q2 25 revenue: 3.27bnQ2 25 net income: 303.90mQ2 25 EPS: 2.57Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 3.04bnQ3 25 net income: 257.80mQ3 25 EPS: 2.19Q4 25 revenue: 3.10bnQ4 25 net income: 237.20mQ4 25 EPS: 2.03Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 3.35bnQ1 26 net income: 306.80mQ1 26 EPS: 2.65Q2 26 revenue: 3.72bnQ2 26 net income: 404.90mQ2 26 EPS: 3.48Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (1.59–3.48, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) Filed
2026-05-31 (derived) 3.72bn +13.7% 404.90m 3.48 2026-07-24
2026-02-22 3.35bn +5.9% 306.80m 2.65 2026-03-27
2025-11-23 3.10bn +7.3% 237.20m 2.03 2025-12-30
2025-08-24 3.04bn +10.4% 257.80m 2.19 2025-09-26

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±1.7%
On an ordinary two days ±1.2% — filings move it 1.4× as much
Direction 5 up, 7 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +6.1% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-04: price +6.1%Q4 22 revenue +9.4% year on yearQ4 22 filed 2023-01-04: price +3.1%Q4 22Q1 23 revenue +13.8% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-04: price -0.5%Q3 23 revenue +11.6% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-09-29: price -0.5%Q3 23Q4 23 revenue +9.7% year on yearQ4 23 filed 2024-01-03: price -0.8%Q1 24 revenue +6.8% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-02: price -2.5%Q1 24Q3 24 revenue +1.0% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-09-27: price -2.3%Q4 24 revenue +6.0% year on yearQ4 24 filed 2025-01-02: price +0.6%Q4 24Q1 25 revenue +6.2% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-01: price +0.9%Q3 25 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-09-26: price +3.2%Q3 25Q4 25 revenue +7.3% year on yearQ4 25 filed 2025-12-30: price -1.5%Q1 26 revenue +5.9% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-03-27: price -1.9%Q1 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-02-22 2026-03-27 +5.9% -1.9% -11.1%
2025-11-23 2025-12-30 +7.3% -1.5% +7.7%
2025-08-24 2025-09-26 +10.4% +3.2% -7.3%
2025-02-23 2025-04-01 +6.2% +0.9% -2.9%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Shrinking — shares retired
Diluted shares 116.3M as at 2026-05-31
Change over 1 year -1.8%
Change over 3 years -5.4%
Public float $20.08bn as at 2025-11-21 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyFair Value Anchor
Reference band 211.54 — 228.82
Protective stop 206.73 (Atr, 6.1% risk)
Support 207.67 (2 touches, 9.6% away)
Resistance (— away)

Takeaway The shares are about 9.6% above 207.67, a price buyers have stepped in at before. There is no ceiling to point to, because the stock is trading where it has not traded before and nobody has sold it at these levels. That floor has held 2 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 6.1% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice ABOVE the cloud | periods 8/23/47 (90% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BULL | cloud twist BULL (fresh up, 1d ago)
Cloud eventFresh up breakout 5d ago
Cloud thickness2% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice ABOVE the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading above its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 209.85 to 210.04. Being above it means the medium-term picture is pointing upwards, and that band is the first place the stock has recent support if it slips back. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +16.3%
63 days +14.3%
126 days +8.3%
252 days +13.0%
Below 252d high0.0%

Trend context

PositionFar above trend
ExtensionExtended
Trend slopeFlat
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is well above the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is going sideways. The gap between the two has been widening. Being stretched this far above trend measures how much room there is to fall back — it does not say the stock will stop rising.

Volatility

State Expanding
Current band width18.2% of price
Recent tightest10.5% (8 sessions ago, narrower than 36.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.73×
Range broken Up
Band 187.02 — 224.49

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 18% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 193.39–218.902026-07-092026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger Relative momentum rank above 0.55 +0.03 rank relative momentum leadership is not yet strong enough for the next action tier · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityInsider selling
Buy filings0
Sell filings5
Shares sold18,895
Value sold$3.9m
Latest sell2026-08-05
FiledInsiderSharesValue
2026-08-05 Sold Wilkerson John W.President, Olive Garden 2,500 $521,035
2026-08-05 Sold Wilkerson John W.President, Olive Garden 6,364 $1,325,602

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Above its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway Slightly more shares change hands on rising days than on falling ones, but the gap is too small to read anything into.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

DRI: no binary-event flag. Near IV 28%, far IV 31% (ratio 0.88), implied move 3.4%.

Implied volatility 28% near (9d) · 31% far (65d)
Term structure 0.88× near/far
Historical volatility 29%
Implied vs historical 0.94×
Implied move ±3.5% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.49×
Skew Put Skew (2.00×)
Call wall 230.00 (+1.0% away)
Put wall 185.00 (-18.8% away)
Gamma pin 185.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 3.5% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 100.0/100; Strong Rotation Tailwind.

Rotation health 100.0
Rotation strength 62.5
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 116.5 108.3
Stock vs SPY Leading 120.6 112.4
Sector vs SPY Leading 112.5 121.1

Direction of travel: South-East / trend strong but momentum cooling

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 6/9 (+15.0)
  • Altman Z-score 2.68 (+3.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 21.7% (+0.6)
  • ROIC quality: 16.1% (+9.5)
  • FCF margin quality: 14.0% (+9.3)
  • ROIC improving by 2.9 pts (+2.0)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.1 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.050) (+2.0)
  • Relative Strength 12.7% vs sector: OUTPERFORMING (+10.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (2.44) (+8.0)
  • Track 1: volume confirmation 1.13x average (+0.8)
  • Track 1: relative strength trend improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.22 (+12.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 46.9 (+8.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 41.4 and rising (+10.0)
  • Track 1: relative momentum rank 0.52 (+0.8)
  • Track 1: EMA20 reclaim distance 8.7% (+1.0)
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope improving 3.0% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram acceleration 1.35 (+10.0)
  • Track 1: positive MACD regime (+3.0)
  • Track 1: MACD line/signal repair quality (+8.0)
  • Track 1: MACD slope improving (+5.0)
  • Track 1: VPT strength 0.11 (+2.3)
  • Track 1: price above EMA50 by 10.8% (+5.0)
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope improving 1.8% (+3.0)
  • Regime convergence: ICHIMOKU_CLOUD_REVERSAL confidence 91.3/100 (EXCEPTIONAL) (+18.3)

Negative signals

  • Track 1: RSI deterioration/extension 81.0, 5-day change +22.3
  • Chase risk 66.8/100 (Exhaustion Risk): RSI 81.0, EMA20 8.7%, EMA50 10.8%, BB 1.09, distribution 2.0/100
  • Gross margin improving by -0.2 pts (+-3.0)
  • Chase risk 66.8/100 | Extension score 33.2/100 | Exhaustion Risk