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Darden Restaurants (DRI) Operating Expenses (2016 - 2025)

Darden Restaurants (DRI) has 17 years of Operating Expenses data on record, last reported at $2.8 billion in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Expenses rose 7.07% year-over-year to $2.8 billion; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached $11.1 billion, up 8.61%, while the annual FY2025 figure was $10.7 billion, 6.34% up from the prior year.
  • Operating Expenses reached $2.8 billion in Q4 2025 per DRI's latest filing, up from $2.7 billion in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Expenses topped out at $2.9 billion in Q2 2025 and bottomed at $1.6 billion in Q1 2021.
  • Average Operating Expenses over 5 years is $2.4 billion, with a median of $2.4 billion recorded in 2023.
  • The widest YoY moves for Operating Expenses: up 37.71% in 2021, down 23.36% in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Expenses shows it stood at $2.0 billion in 2021, then rose by 11.04% to $2.3 billion in 2022, then grew by 8.68% to $2.4 billion in 2023, then rose by 6.09% to $2.6 billion in 2024, then increased by 7.07% to $2.8 billion in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Expenses were $2.8 billion in Q4 2025, $2.7 billion in Q3 2025, and $2.9 billion in Q2 2025.