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Valued at a market cap of $23.9 billion, Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI) is a leading full-service restaurant company headquartered in Orlando, Florida. It operates thousands of restaurants under iconic brands such as Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar’s Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V’s, and Bahama Breeze. The company is scheduled to announce its fiscal Q1 earnings for 2026 on Thursday, Sept. 18.
Analysts project this restaurant company to report a profit of $1.99 per share in Q1, up 13.7% from $1.75 per share in the year-ago quarter. The company has missed Wall Street’s bottom-line estimates in three of the last four quarters, while exceeding on another occasion. Its earnings of $2.98 per share in the previous quarter outpaced the consensus estimates by a slight margin.