DRIDarden Restaurants
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Balance sheet to watch.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$14.0M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -73% · now 13% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of May 25, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can DRI take a bad year?
Darden Restaurants carries $2.40B of net debt at 1.12× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2027 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.12×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.05× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.62
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 1.26×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2027
- $2.62B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $221M
- Net debt
- $2.40B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.13B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.56B
- Debt / equity
- 1.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.23×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 29%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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