Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Shares of companies with multiple restaurant brands like Brinker and Darden are outperforming single-chain stocks like McDonald's and Chipotle. Major restaurant companies will start to report their quarterly earnings next week and offer a glimpse at how those trends are playing out.

McDonald's, Darden, and Yum! Brands all convert daily foot traffic into shareholder income, but only one of them kept raising its dividend when dining rooms went dark and customers disappeared.

MILL VALLEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Four Corners Property Trust (NYSE:FCPT), a real estate investment trust primarily engaged in the ownership and acquisition of high-quality, net-leased restaurant and retail properties (“FCPT” or the “Company”), is pleased to announce the execution of a master agreement, extension and exercise (“Master Agreement”) with Darden Restaurants, Inc. and certain of its affiliates (“Darden”) (NYSE:DRI) with respect to all 66 Olive Garden and LongHorn leases previousl.

Two restaurant stocks pay nearly identical dividends, but one cut its payout to the bone during the last downturn while the other kept raising through every storm. For retirees, that difference changes everything about which one belongs in a portfolio.

A weekly summary of dividend activity for Dividend Champions, Contenders, and Challengers. Companies which changed their dividends. Companies with upcoming ex-dividend dates.

Both Darden and Starbucks just got cheaper after steep selloffs, but one of them is quietly struggling to fund its own dividend from free cash flow while the other keeps raising payouts and buying back stock.

Darden Restaurants TodayDRIDarden Restaurants$199.42 -7.82 (-3.77%) As of 09/25/2026 03:59 PM Eastern This is a fair market value price provided by Massive. Learn more.52-Week Range$169.00▼$229.76Dividend Yield3.25%P/E Ratio19.49Price Target$232.38Add to WatchlistDarden Restaurants' NYSE: DRI late-September post-earnings release price pullback could be a sell-the-news, buy-the-dip event because the strengths were expected.

Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE:DRI) stock is trading lower Friday after the company reported fiscal 2027 first-quarter results Thursday that narrowly missed Wall Street estimates for both revenue and earnings.