Valuation
26% of the score
75median 56
Darden Restaurants is valued at 16.3x its operating profit, including debt: an ordinary multiple.
60x
50x
35x
25x
18x
12x
8x
16.3x
Full points at 8x or less, none from 60xfull points
DRIDarden Restaurants
$197.05-4.0% 1Y
$197.05
$166.6752 weeks$227.72
RyuScore
Seven criteria, each scored 0 to 100 on a published scale, weighted into one number.
RyuScore 77 out of 100, Strong
Today's price. Only valuation depends on it.
Strong. Darden Restaurants scores higher than 88% of the 1,794 companies Ryufin scores.
Carried by valuation and capital allocation, with nothing holding it far back.
Consumer Cyclical median 67 · all companies 57
How the score has moved
At each fiscal year end, from the reports and price of the time50
69
70
77
77
77
77
202120222023202420252026today
The biggest move was up 19 points from 2021 to 2022, mostly return on new capital.
Return on capital
18% of the score
62median 34
Over 7 years the business earned 11% a year after tax on the capital it uses.
2%
8%
15%
25%
11%
None at 2% or less, full points from 25%full points
7 years agolatest 14%
Return on new capital
16% of the score
76median 49
For every dollar of operating profit earned over 6 years, yearly profit grew by 8 cents. New capital earned 19%, and 43% of profit went back into the business.
-5%
12%
8%
None at minus 5 cents, full points from 12 centsfull points
Capital allocation
14% of the score
96median 67
How management spends the money: shares bought back or issued, and whether assets grow faster than the business they serve.
Share countDown 2.5% a year over 5 years: buybacks
935%
-3%
-2.5%
0 pointsfull points
Assets against salesAssets grew 3.8% a year, sales 13%
10012%
-2%
-9.1%
0 pointsfull points
Cycle position
12% of the score
58median 62
Today's operating margin of 12% is 1.09x its normal 11%: close to its usual level. Normal is half the 10 year median, half the last four years, so a margin that has held is not taken for a peak.
2x
1.5x
1x
0.7x
1.1x
A trough earns points, a peak costs themfull points
10 years agonow 12%
Balance sheet
8% of the score
98median 50
What the debt weighs against the profit that has to carry it.
Net debt to EBITDA0.7x a year of EBITDA
964.5x
0.5x
0.7x
0 pointsfull points
Interest coverOperating profit covers interest 13x
1001.5x
12x
12.5x
0 pointsfull points
Earnings quality
6% of the score
93median 90
Whether the reported profit arrives as cash, and whether the accounts show the usual signs of stretching.
Cash against profitOperating cash flow was 1.58x profit over 3 years
1000.7x
1x
1.3x
1.6x
0 pointsfull points
AccrualsCash ran ahead of profit by 5.1% of assets
858%
0%
-8%
-5.1%
0 pointsfull points
How the RyuScore works
Each criterion earns 0 to 100 points on the scale drawn under it, and the RyuScore is their average weighted 26, 18, 16, 14, 12, 8 and 6. Scales bend in the company's favour between their ends, so an ordinary figure is never already near zero. Where a criterion cannot be measured from the filings it is taken out and the remaining weights scale up; a company needs 60% of the weight covered, and always a price, to get a score.
Built from the company's annual and quarterly filings with the SEC and today's share price. Banks, insurers and property trusts are not scored: their debt is their raw material, so these yardsticks mean something else there. Figures as of 2026-05-31, latest annual report FY2026.
Restaurants
The closest names by size in the same industry