Darden Restaurants Financial Ratios
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Darden Restaurants ratio analysis
Darden Restaurants earned a net margin of 9.1% in FY 2026, up from 8.7% a year earlier. Gross margin was 20.3% compared with a median of 19.0% over the prior 9 years. Return on equity reached 54.7%, meaning Darden Restaurants generated 0.55 dollars of profit for every dollar of shareholders' equity, an unusually high figure that often reflects a small equity base after share buybacks.
Debt-to-equity stood at 1.37 versus 0.92 the year before, and the current ratio was 0.31. At the end of FY 2026, DRI traded at 19.6 times earnings; across the 9 fiscal years shown, its year-end P/E ranged from 17.1 to 30.0, with a median of 20.2. Valuation ratios use the closing share price on each fiscal year-end date and diluted shares from the income statement; profitability and leverage ratios use reported annual figures. Current valuation multiples are on the statistics page.
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Darden Restaurants financial ratios (annual)
| Ratio | FY 2026 | FY 2025 | FY 2024 | FY 2023 | FY 2022 | FY 2021 | FY 2020 | FY 2019 | FY 2018 | FY 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio (at fiscal year end) | 19.64 | 23.03 | 17.34 | 20.19 | 17.06 | 30.03 | — | 21.11 | 18.58 | 23.14 |
| Price / sales | 1.78 | 1.99 | 1.55 | 1.87 | 1.67 | 2.60 | 1.21 | 1.74 | 1.35 | 1.52 |
| Price / book | 10.67 | 10.37 | 7.89 | 8.93 | 7.33 | 6.64 | 4.05 | 6.20 | 4.96 | 5.20 |
| Gross margin | 20.3% | 20.5% | 20.1% | 19.0% | 19.7% | 19.5% | 15.0% | 18.7% | 18.5% | 18.5% |
| Operating margin | 12.0% | 11.3% | 11.5% | 11.5% | 12.1% | 9.0% | 0.6% | 9.8% | 9.5% | 9.4% |
| Net margin | 9.1% | 8.7% | 9.0% | 9.4% | 9.9% | 8.7% | -0.7% | 8.4% | 7.4% | 6.7% |
| Free cash flow margin | 8.5% | 8.8% | 9.0% | 9.4% | 9.2% | 13.0% | 3.3% | 9.6% | 7.7% | 8.7% |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 54.7% | 45.4% | 45.8% | 44.6% | 43.3% | 22.4% | -2.2% | 29.8% | 27.2% | 22.8% |
| Return on assets (ROA) | 9.4% | 8.3% | 9.1% | 9.6% | 9.4% | 5.9% | -0.5% | 12.1% | 10.9% | 9.1% |
| Debt / equity | 1.37 | 0.92 | 0.65 | 0.40 | 0.41 | 0.33 | 0.51 | 0.39 | 0.42 | 0.45 |
| Current ratio | 0.31 | 0.42 | 0.38 | 0.51 | 0.64 | 1.01 | 0.61 | 0.61 | 0.40 | 0.46 |
| Revenue growth | 9.4% | 6.0% | 8.6% | 8.9% | 33.8% | -7.8% | -8.3% | 5.3% | 12.7% | 3.4% |
| EPS growth | 17.2% | 4.1% | 6.5% | 8.1% | 54.9% | — | -107.6% | 20.3% | 24.5% | 31.0% |