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DRI (Darden Restaurants) EBITDA : $1,936 Mil (TTM As of May. 2025)


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What is Darden Restaurants EBITDA?

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA for the three months ended in May. 2025 was $575 Mil. Its EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2025 was $1,936 Mil.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA Growth Rate of Darden Restaurants was 9.80% per year. During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 8.40% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 40.60% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA Growth Rate was 9.50% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA Growth Rate using EBITDA data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA Growth Rate of Darden Restaurants was 83.80% per year. The lowest was -35.40% per year. And the median was 8.05% per year.

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA per Share for the three months ended in May. 2025 was $4.87. Its EBITDA per share for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2025 was $16.37.

During the past 12 months, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Darden Restaurants was 12.00% per year. During the past 3 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 11.50% per year. During the past 5 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 42.60% per year. During the past 10 years, the average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate was 10.20% per year. Please click Growth Rate Calculation Example (GuruFocus) to see how GuruFocus calculates Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT)'s revenue growth rate. You can apply the same method to get the EBITDA per share growth rate using EBITDA per Share data.

During the past 13 years, the highest 3-Year average EBITDA per Share Growth Rate of Darden Restaurants was 83.80% per year. The lowest was -34.80% per year. And the median was 11.00% per year.


Darden Restaurants EBITDA Historical Data

The historical data trend for Darden Restaurants's EBITDA can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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Darden Restaurants EBITDA Chart

Darden Restaurants Annual Data
Trend May16 May17 May18 May19 May20 May21 May22 May23 May24 May25
EBITDA
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 992.60 1,532.50 1,597.40 1,778.60 1,952.40

Darden Restaurants Quarterly Data
Aug20 Nov20 Feb21 May21 Aug21 Nov21 Feb22 May22 Aug22 Nov22 Feb23 May23 Aug23 Nov23 Feb24 May24 Aug24 Nov24 Feb25 May25
EBITDA Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 508.60 391.70 419.80 550.20 574.60

Competitive Comparison of Darden Restaurants's EBITDA

For the Restaurants subindustry, Darden Restaurants's EV-to-EBITDA, along with its competitors' market caps and EV-to-EBITDA data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Darden Restaurants's EV-to-EBITDA Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Darden Restaurants's EV-to-EBITDA distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Darden Restaurants's EV-to-EBITDA falls into.


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Earnings Before Interest, Taxes, Depreciation, and Amortization (EBITDA) is what the company earns before it expenses interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA for the fiscal year that ended in May. 2025 is calculated as

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the fiscal year ended in May. 2025, Darden Restaurants's EBITDA was $1,952 Mil.

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA for the quarter that ended in May. 2025 is calculated as

Darden Restaurants's EBITDA was directly provided by GuruFocus' data source Morningstar. For the quarter ended in May. 2025, Darden Restaurants's EBITDA was $575 Mil.

EBITDA for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in May. 2025 adds up the quarterly data reported by the company within the most recent 12 months, which was $1,936 Mil.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

Sometimes companies may have already deducted Depreciation and Amortization from Gross Profit. In this case Depreciation and Amortization needs to be added back when calculating EBITDA.

Darden Restaurants  (NYSE:DRI) EBITDA Explanation

EBITDA is a cash flow measure that ignores changes in working capital. EBITDA minus Depreciation, and Amortization (DA) equals Operating Income. Operating Income is profit before interest and taxes. Of course, Interest and taxes need to be paid.

While depreciation and amortization expenses do not need to be paid in cash, assets - especially tangible assets - do need to be replaced over time. EBITDA is not a measure of profit in any sense. EBITDA is a measure of cash generation by a business where the uses of that cash may be more or less discretionary depending on the nature of the business.

The EBITDA of a TV station is largely discretionary. Owners may use much of the EBITDA generated by a TV station as they see fit. The EBITDA of a railroad is largely non-discretionary. Owners must use much of the EBITDA generated by a railroad to replace the physical assets of the railroad or the business will literally fall apart over time.

EBITDA can be thought of as the cash a business generates that is available to:

Add more inventory
Add more receivables
Replace property, plant, and equipment
Add more property, plant, and equipment
Pay interest
Pay taxes
And finally: pay owners

EBITDA is widely used in financial analysis because Depreciation and Amortization are not present day cash expenses.. Depreciation and amortization are the spreading out of the costs of assets over the time in which those assets provide benefits. Today's depreciation and amortization expenses relate to assets bought in the past. The assets being expensed may or may not need to be replaced in the future. And the cost to replace the assets may be more or less than it was in the past. For this reason, the depreciation and amortization expenses a company records in the present year may have no relationship to the actual cash costs needed to maintain its assets in future years.

A company's depreciation expense depends on both its expectations about the assets it owns and its choice of accounting methods. Two companies owning identical assets may have different depreciation expenses because they have different expectations about the useful lives of those assets and because they make different accounting choices.

Analysts use EBITDA to remove this element of personal choice from a company's accounting statements. The use of EBITDA is an attempt to make the results of different companies more comparable and uniform.


Be Aware

Although depreciation is not a cash cost it is a real business cost because the company has to pay for the fixed assets when they purchase them. Both Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger hate the idea of EBITDA because in this calculation, depreciation is not counted as an expense.

EBITDA over Revenue is a good metric for comparing the operating efficiencies between companies because EBITDA is less vulnerable to companies' accounting choices. For this reason, EBITDA is used in ranking the Predictability of Companies. Also Price-to-EBITDA is sometimes used in valuations.


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Darden Restaurants Business Description

Address
1000 Darden Center Drive, Orlando, FL, USA, 32837
Darden Restaurants is the largest restaurant operator in the US full-service space, with consolidated revenue of $11.4 billion in fiscal 2024 resulting in 3%-4% full-service market share (per NRA data and our calculations). The company maintains a portfolio of 11 restaurant brands: Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Ruth's Chris, Yard House, The Capital Grille, Seasons 52, Eddie V's, Bahama Breeze, The Capital Burger, and most recently, Chuy's. Darden generates revenue almost exclusively from company-owned restaurants, though a small network of franchised restaurants and consumer-packaged goods sales through the traditional grocery channel contribute modestly. As of the end of its fiscal 2024, the company operated 2,031 restaurants in the US.
Executives
Charles M Sonsteby director
Daniel J. Kiernan officer: President, Olive Garden 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Sarah H. King officer: SVP, Chief HR Officer 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Melvin John Martin officer: President, SRG 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
John W. Madonna officer: SVP, Corporate Controller 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Ricardo Cardenas officer: SVP Chief Strategy Officer 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Douglas J. Milanes officer: SVP, Chief Supply Chain Ofcr 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Matthew R Broad officer: SVP General Counsel C/O DARDEN RESTAURANTS, INC., 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
M Shan Atkins director C/O SPARTANNASH, 850 76TH SW, GRAND RAPIDS MI 49518
Todd Burrowes officer: President, LongHorn Steakhouse 150 WEST CHURCH AVENUE, MARYVILLE TN 37801
Susan M. Connelly officer: SVP, Chief Comm & PA Officer 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Rajesh Vennam officer: SVP, CFO and Treasurer 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Nana Mensah director 1301 AVENUE OF THE AMERICAS, NEW YORK NY 10019
William S Simon director 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837
Lee Eugene I Jr officer: President, Speciality Rest Grp 1000 DARDEN CENTER DRIVE, ORLANDO FL 32837