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We expect sluggish sales growth to represent the key issue for the restaurant industry in 2023, following a year of investor concern regarding inflated input costs and margin compression. Though we see modest upside in wide-moat Domino's and view wide-moat Chipotle shares as fairly valued, the industry trades at a 5% market-cap weighted premium to our fair value estimates, suggesting that current entry prices are less than salient.
Darden Restaurants is the largest restaurant operator in the U.S. full-service space, with consolidated revenue of $9.6 billion in fiscal 2022 resulting in 3%-4% full-service market share (per NRA data and our calculations). The company maintains a portfolio of eight restaurant chains: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s, and Bahama Breeze. Darden generates revenue almost exclusively from company-owned restaurants, though a small network of franchised restaurants and consumer-packaged goods sales through the traditional grocery channel contribute modestly. As of the end of Darden's fiscal 2022, the company operated 1,864 restaurants in the U.S.
Yes. DRI has a forward dividend yield of 3.23%.
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DRI’s full dividends and stock split history
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Dividend yield allows investors, particularly those interested in dividend-paying stocks,
to compare the relationship between a stock’s price and how it rewards stockholders through dividends.
The formula for calculating dividend yield is to divide the annual dividend paid per share by the stock price.
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DRI’s market cap is 18.21 Bil.
Market capitalization is calculated by taking a company’s share price and multiplying it by the total number of shares.
It’s often used to measure a company’s size. In the Morningstar Style Box, large-cap names account for the
largest 70% of U.S. stocks, mid-cap names account for the largest 70–90%, and small-cap names are the remaining 10% of companies.
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DRI’s stock style is Mid Core.
Style is an investment factor that has a meaningful impact on investment risk and returns.
Style is calculated by combining value and growth scores, which are first individually calculated.
High-growth stocks tend to represent the technology, healthcare, and communications sectors. They rarely distribute dividends to shareholders, opting for reinvestment in their businesses. More value-oriented stocks tend to represent financial services, utilities, and energy stocks. These are established companies that reliably pay dividends.
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DRI’s price/sales is 1.88.
Price/sales represents the amount an investor is willing to pay for a dollar generated from
a particular company’s sales or revenues.
DRI’s price/forward earnings is 16.98.
Forward P/E gives some indication of how cheap or expensive a stock is compared with consensus earnings estimates.
The lower the Forward P/E, the cheaper the stock.
DRI’s price/book is 9.02.
Price/book ratio can tell investors approximately how much they’re paying for a company’s assets,
based on historical, rather than current, valuations. Historical valuations generally do not reflect
a company’s current market value. Value investors frequently look for companies that have low price/book ratios.
See DRI’s valuation ratios compared to the Market Index.
DRI’s beta can be found in Trading Information at the top of this page.
A stock’s beta measures how closely tied its price movements have been to the performance of the overall market.
Compare DRI’s historical performance against its industry peers and the overall market.
