Darden Restaurants (DRI) Competitors $162.59 +1.74 (+1.08%) (As of 11/20/2024 ET) Add Compare Share Share Competitors Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsDividendEarningsFinancialsHeadlinesInsider TradesOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort InterestSustainabilityTrends DRI vs. YUM, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, WEN, CAKE, PZZA, BLMN, CBRL, and JACKShould you be buying Darden Restaurants stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Darden Restaurants include Yum! Brands (YUM), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Brinker International (EAT), Wendy's (WEN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa Johns International (PZZA), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), and Jack in the Box (JACK). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry. Darden Restaurants vs. Yum! Brands Domino's Pizza Texas Roadhouse Brinker International Wendy's Cheesecake Factory Papa Johns International Bloomin' Brands Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Jack in the Box Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their risk, media sentiment, community ranking, dividends, profitability, analyst recommendations, valuation, institutional ownership and earnings. Does the MarketBeat Community favor DRI or YUM? Darden Restaurants received 82 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 66.51% of users gave Darden Restaurants an outperform vote while only 64.89% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote. CompanyUnderperformOutperformDarden RestaurantsOutperform Votes115666.51% Underperform Votes58233.49% Yum! BrandsOutperform Votes107464.89% Underperform Votes58135.11% Do analysts rate DRI or YUM? Darden Restaurants currently has a consensus price target of $180.13, suggesting a potential upside of 10.79%. Yum! Brands has a consensus price target of $145.94, suggesting a potential upside of 9.83%. Given Darden Restaurants' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, research analysts clearly believe Darden Restaurants is more favorable than Yum! Brands.Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score Darden Restaurants 1 Sell rating(s) 6 Hold rating(s) 16 Buy rating(s) 0 Strong Buy rating(s) 2.65Yum! Brands 0 Sell rating(s) 12 Hold rating(s) 6 Buy rating(s) 0 Strong Buy rating(s) 2.33 Do institutionals & insiders believe in DRI or YUM? 93.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 0.6% of Darden Restaurants shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, hedge funds and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term. Which has better earnings & valuation, DRI or YUM? Yum! Brands has lower revenue, but higher earnings than Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks. CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings RatioDarden Restaurants$11.39B1.68$1.03B$8.6718.75Yum! Brands$7.08B5.24$1.60B$5.3524.84 Is DRI or YUM more profitable? Yum! Brands has a net margin of 21.13% compared to Darden Restaurants' net margin of 9.11%. Darden Restaurants' return on equity of 49.46% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets Darden Restaurants9.11% 49.46% 9.39% Yum! Brands 21.13%-18.93%23.12% Is DRI or YUM a better dividend stock? Darden Restaurants pays an annual dividend of $5.60 per share and has a dividend yield of 3.4%. Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Darden Restaurants pays out 64.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum! Brands pays out 50.1% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Does the media favor DRI or YUM? In the previous week, Yum! Brands had 11 more articles in the media than Darden Restaurants. MarketBeat recorded 23 mentions for Yum! Brands and 12 mentions for Darden Restaurants. Darden Restaurants' average media sentiment score of 1.35 beat Yum! Brands' score of 0.59 indicating that Darden Restaurants is being referred to more favorably in the media. Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment Darden Restaurants 9 Very Positive mention(s) 0 Positive mention(s) 3 Neutral mention(s) 0 Negative mention(s) 0 Very Negative mention(s) Positive Yum! Brands 11 Very Positive mention(s) 2 Positive mention(s) 6 Neutral mention(s) 3 Negative mention(s) 0 Very Negative mention(s) Positive Which has more risk & volatility, DRI or YUM? Darden Restaurants has a beta of 1.31, meaning that its stock price is 31% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.1, meaning that its stock price is 10% more volatile than the S&P 500. SummaryDarden Restaurants beats Yum! Brands on 13 of the 20 factors compared between the two stocks. 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The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.Skip Chart DRI vs. The Competition Export to ExcelMetricDarden RestaurantsEating places IndustryRetail SectorNYSE ExchangeMarket Cap$19.10B$9.74B$23.61B$19.87BDividend Yield3.36%3.76%168.63%3.53%P/E Ratio18.7529.93117.6342.89Price / Sales1.682.506.5618.10Price / Cash12.9421.4220.0717.86Price / Book8.628.786.265.52Net Income$1.03B$320.83M$688.15M$986.45M7 Day Performance-4.18%-2.39%-2.02%-0.22%1 Month Performance-1.22%-4.03%-3.07%0.12%1 Year Performance5.56%12.89%14.68%23.71% Darden Restaurants Competitors List Export to ExcelCompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)DRIDarden Restaurants4.6693 of 5 stars$162.59+1.1%$180.13+10.8%+5.6%$19.10B$11.39B18.75191,105Positive NewsYUMYum! Brands4.5772 of 5 stars$132.88+0.6%$145.94+9.8%+3.7%$36.88B$7.08B24.8435,000Insider TradeDPZDomino's Pizza4.6558 of 5 stars$438.97-0.2%$494.38+12.6%+19.1%$15.16B$4.48B26.9611,200Insider TradeTXRHTexas Roadhouse4.1459 of 5 stars$193.41-0.1%$189.00-2.3%+76.3%$12.92B$4.63B33.2391,000EATBrinker International4.0157 of 5 stars$124.74+2.1%$86.45-30.7%+243.6%$5.54B$4.42B30.4268,852Analyst RevisionPositive NewsWENWendy's4.5723 of 5 stars$17.92-0.6%$20.36+13.6%-5.7%$3.65B$2.18B18.8615,300Analyst ForecastAnalyst RevisionCAKECheesecake Factory4.1655 of 5 stars$46.63+0.1%$44.75-4.0%+42.5%$2.38B$3.54B17.7347,900Analyst UpgradePZZAPapa Johns International4.396 of 5 stars$47.31+0.3%$60.82+28.6%-29.6%$1.54B$2.14B16.4813,200Ex-DividendAnalyst RevisionBLMNBloomin' Brands4.1298 of 5 stars$12.59+0.2%$19.70+56.5%-47.7%$1.07B$4.67B-112.7287,000Short Interest ↓CBRLCracker Barrel Old Country Store4.7653 of 5 stars$46.37-1.8%$51.25+10.5%-39.7%$1.03B$3.47B25.6277,600Analyst UpgradeJACKJack in the Box4.8625 of 5 stars$45.60-0.9%$62.65+37.4%-33.4%$872.15M$1.59B-22.919,523Analyst ForecastAnalyst RevisionNews CoverageHigh Trading Volume Related Companies and Tools Related Companies YUM Competitors DPZ Competitors TXRH Competitors EAT Competitors WEN Competitors CAKE Competitors PZZA Competitors BLMN Competitors CBRL Competitors JACK Competitors Top 10 Stock Comparisons Bank Stocks Artificial Intelligence Stocks Toy Stocks Growth Stocks Airline Stocks Chinese Stocks EV Charging Stocks Defense Stocks Lithium Stocks Pharmaceutical Stocks This page (NYSE:DRI) was last updated on 11/21/2024 by MarketBeat.com Staff From Our PartnersThe Crypto That’s Making Wall Street SweatThe Crypto Wall Street Is Desperate to Hide It's happening now, right under everyone's radar. 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