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Last filing: 8-K (5.07 Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders), 2026-09-24. 5 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-05-31", "revenue": 13210900000, "revenueGrowth1y": 0.09391638444276995, "revenueGrowthPerYear": 0.08213041386849773, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.11981015676448993, "operatingMarginPrior": 0.11280399446868764, "netMargin": 0.09134124094497725, "operatingCashFlow": null, "capitalSpending": 734000000, "freeCashFlow": null, "researchAndDevelopment": null, "researchShareOfRevenue": null, "cash": 219500000, "longTermDebt": 1637700000, "longTermDebtChange": -0.23072948471041388, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-05-29", "revenue": 9630000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-05-28", "revenue": 10487800000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-05-26", "revenue": 11390000000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-05-25", "revenue": 12076700000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2026-05-31", "revenue": 13210900000 } ], "totalEquity": 2207500000, "totalAssets": 12862400000, "equityRatio": 0.17162426918770993, "returnOnEquity": 0.5466364665911665, "dividendsPaid": 693000000, "payoutRatio": 0.5742935278030994, "dividendPerShare": 6, "dividendYearsRising": 5, "dividendCut": false, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. 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Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $12.4B and $15.6B next year (method v4.1: its own 5-year record of growth weighed at 57% against $10B+ filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $11.2B to $17.1B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (31 filers, $50M+ revenue, retail-eating places): operating margin 12.0% against a 4.3% median; growth 9.4% against 4.7%.", "peers": { "sic": 5812, "sicDescription": "Retail-Eating Places", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 4, "group": "5812", "growth": [ 0.0466, 33 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0434, 31 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.1419, 31 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.079, 20 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.4122, 16 ] }, "summary": "Darden Restaurants (DRI) grew revenue 9.4% in FY2026 to $13.2 billion, operating margin 12.0% against a 4.3% median for retail-eating places, equity 17.2% of assets, and dividend per share up 5 years running. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC. against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 4.3%12.0%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 4.7%9.4%Equity of assetsPeer median 14.2%17.2%Return on equityPeer median 7.9%54.7%Payout of profitPeer median 41.2%57.4%Gold tick: the median of 16–31 peers with $50M+ revenue in retail-eating places
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profit57.4% paid out42.6% keptHanded back per share$6up 5 years runningGrowth its own profit can fund23.3%retained x return on equityRevenue growth it managed9.4%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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