Darden Stock Dips After Disappointing Q1 Results
Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI ) shares are slipping Thursday after the company reported first-quarter results that narrowly missed Wall Street’s expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Here’s what you should know. Darden Restaurants stock is facing resistance. Why is DRI stock trading lower? Darden Narrowly Misses On Both Earnings and Revenue Per-share profit landed at $2.05 for the quarter, coming in just a hair below the $2.06 Wall Street had penciled in, even though that figure still represented roughly 4% growth from the $1.97 posted a year earlier. Revenue told a similar story, with the company bringing in $3.2 billion against expectations closer to roughly $3.21 billion, a gap of less than a quarter percentage point. Revenue still climbed about 6.5% from the approximate $3 billion recorded during the same stretch last year. Every single brand under Darden’s umbrella posted growth in same-restaurant sales during the period. LongHorn Steakhouse paced the pack, climbing 6.2% on the fiscal calendar and 6.8% on the comparable basis, while Olive Garden added 1.1% and 1.0%, Fine Dining rose 1.6% and 1.0% and the company’s other restaurant holdings gained 3.8% and 4.5%, r
Darden Restaurants Inc. (NYSE: DRI ) shares are slipping Thursday after the company reported first-quarter results that narrowly missed Wall Street’s expectations on both the top and bottom lines. Here’s what you should know. Darden Restaurants stock is facing resistance.
Why is DRI stock trading lower? 97 posted a year earlier. 21 billion, a gap of less than a quarter percentage point. 5% from the approximate $3 billion recorded during the same stretch last year.
Every single brand under Darden’s umbrella posted growth in same-restaurant sales during the period. 5%, respectively. President and CEO Rick Cardenas pointed to “each of our segments delivering positive same-restaurant sales” as evidence the quarter got the fiscal year off to a strong start. He tied that performance to the strength of running a portfolio of distinct restaurant brands, each with its own strategy, while benefiting from Darden’s overall scale.
Cardenas said the company plans to keep executing well at the restaurant level, deepen guest loyalty, invest in employees and brands and deploy capital in ways designed to build long-term value for shareholders. 62 a share, set to go out November 2 to shareholders on record as of October 9. 5 billion repurchase authorization. 27 figure analysts are currently modeling.
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