Is it safe?
Can DRI take a bad year?
Darden Restaurants carries $1.42B of net debt at 0.66× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
$1.42B
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.01× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.62
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
Debt / equity
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- Total debtQ4 2026
- $1.64B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $220M
- Net debt
- $1.42B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.14B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.58B
- Debt / equity
- 0.74×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.76×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- −3.9%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.