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Darden Restaurants DRI Free cash flow yield

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.3B+5.9%
Operating income$406.4M-2.8%
Net income$306.8M-5.1%
EPS (diluted)$2.65-3.3%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$240.4M+7.2%
Total debt$8.1B+3.7%
Total equity$2.1B-4.5%
Total assets$12.9B+2.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$617.8M+5.0%
CapEx$165.9M+4.9%
Free cash flow$451.9M+5.1%

Valuation

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Market cap$24.45B+4.9%
Enterprise value$32.33B+4.5%
P/E22.1×0.0×
P/S1.9×-0.1×

Profitability

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Operating margin11.4%-0.3pp
Net margin8.7%-0.3pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity51.3%+3.3pp
Debt / equity3.9×+0.3×
Current ratio0.4×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Darden Restaurants’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Darden Restaurants’s 10-Q, filed March 27, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Darden Restaurants's free cash flow yield?
Darden Restaurants (DRI) reported free cash flow yield of 4.2% in Q4 2025.
How has Darden Restaurants's free cash flow yield changed year-over-year?
Darden Restaurants's free cash flow yield decreased by 8.0% year-over-year, from 4.5% to 4.2%.
What is the long-term trend for Darden Restaurants's free cash flow yield?
Over 3 years (2022 to 2025), Darden Restaurants's free cash flow yield has grown at a -2.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 20.8% to 19.4%.
What does free cash flow yield mean?
The spendable cash the business throws off each year as a percentage of its market price.
How do you interpret free cash flow yield?
Higher yield can mean better value — you pay less for each dollar of cash generated. A useful sanity check against earnings-based multiples, which non-cash items can distort.
How does free cash flow yield compare across companies?
Comparable across cash-generative companies; less meaningful for firms in heavy-investment phases with temporarily negative FCF.