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

Darden Restaurants has reported FCF Margin over the past 18 years, most recently at 13.51% for Q1 2026.

  • Quarterly results put FCF Margin at 13.51% for Q1 2026, down 11.0% from a year ago — trailing twelve months through Feb 2026 was 8.03% (up 275.0% YoY), and the annual figure for FY2025 was 8.8%, down 16.0%.
  • FCF Margin for Q1 2026 was 13.51% at Darden Restaurants, up from 1.57% in the prior quarter.
  • Over the last five years, FCF Margin for DRI hit a ceiling of 28.65% in Q2 2023 and a floor of 5.29% in Q2 2024.
  • Median FCF Margin over the past 5 years was 8.71% (2025), compared with a mean of 9.88%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Margin: soared 1917bps in 2023 and later crashed -3394bps in 2024.
  • Darden Restaurants' FCF Margin stood at 8.01% in 2022, then soared by 119bps to 17.56% in 2023, then tumbled by -57bps to 7.59% in 2024, then tumbled by -121bps to 1.57% in 2025, then soared by 959bps to 13.51% in 2026.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Margin were 13.51% (Q1 2026), 1.57% (Q4 2025), and 11.07% (Q3 2025) per Business Quant data.