Darden Restaurants (DRI) FCF Margin (2009 - 2026)

Darden Restaurants' FCF Margin history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 13.51% for Q1 2026.

• In Q1 2026, FCF Margin fell 11.0% year-over-year to 13.51%; the TTM figure through Feb 2026 stood at 8.03% (up 275.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 8.8%, down 16.0% from the prior year.
• FCF Margin was 13.51% for Q1 2026 at Darden Restaurants, up from 1.57% in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 28.65% in Q2 2023 to a low of 5.29% in Q2 2024.
• Historically, FCF Margin has averaged 9.88% across 5 years, with a median of 8.71% in 2025.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2024: FCF Margin jumped 1917 bps in 2023, then plunged 3394 bps in 2024.
• A 5-year view of FCF Margin shows it stood at 8.01% in 2022, then surged by 119 bps to 17.56% in 2023, then slumped by 57 bps to 7.59% in 2024, then plunged by 121 bps to 1.57% in 2025, then surged by 959 bps to 13.51% in 2026.
• The last three FCF Margin figures came in at 13.51% (Q1 2026), 1.57% (Q4 2025), and 11.07% (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.