Darden Restaurants (DRI) FCF Payout Ratio (2009 - 2026)

Darden Restaurants' FCF Payout Ratio history runs 18 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 0.39 for Q1 2026.

• In Q1 2026, FCF Payout Ratio changed 0.12% year-over-year to 0.39; the TTM figure through Feb 2026 stood at 0.67 (down 36.16% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 0.62, up 0.66% from the prior year.
• FCF Payout Ratio was 0.39 for Q1 2026 at Darden Restaurants, up from 3.57 in the prior quarter.
• In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 1.36 in Q1 2023 to a low of 3.57 in Q4 2025.
• Historically, FCF Payout Ratio has averaged 0.31 across 5 years, with a median of 0.52 in 2025.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2023 and 2024: FCF Payout Ratio soared 281.06% in 2023, then slumped 654.44% in 2024.
• A 5-year view of FCF Payout Ratio shows it stood at 0.75 in 2022, then tumbled by 55.83% to 0.33 in 2023, then soared by 128.83% to 0.76 in 2024, then plunged by 572.98% to 3.57 in 2025, then surged by 110.79% to 0.39 in 2026.
• The last three FCF Payout Ratio figures came in at 0.39 (Q1 2026), 3.57 (Q4 2025), and 0.52 (Q3 2025), per Business Quant data.