Darden Restaurants (DRI) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2026)

Darden Restaurants has reported EBIT Margin over the past 18 years, most recently at 12.15% for Q1 2026.

For Q1 2026, EBIT Margin fell 109.0% year-over-year to 12.15%; the TTM value through Feb 2026 reached 11.35%, down 34.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 11.28%, 26.0% down from the prior year.
EBIT Margin for Q1 2026 was 12.15% at Darden Restaurants, up from 10.33% in the prior quarter.
Over five years, EBIT Margin peaked at 13.52% in Q2 2023 and troughed at 9.26% in Q3 2023.
A 5-year average of 11.47% and a median of 11.7% in 2025 define the central range for EBIT Margin.
On a YoY basis, EBIT Margin climbed as much as 374bps in 2022 and fell as far as -219bps in 2022.
Year by year, EBIT Margin stood at 9.38% in 2022, then grew by 9bps to 10.21% in 2023, then dropped by -1bps to 10.11% in 2024, then rose by 2bps to 10.33% in 2025, then increased by 18bps to 12.15% in 2026.
Business Quant data shows EBIT Margin for DRI at 12.15% in Q1 2026, 10.33% in Q4 2025, and 11.14% in Q3 2025.

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