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

Darden Restaurants (DRI) has 17 years of Operating Margin data on record, last reported at 10.33% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Operating Margin rose 22.0% year-over-year to 10.33%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 11.61%, up 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 11.28%, 26.0% down from the prior year.
  • Operating Margin reached 10.33% in Q4 2025 per DRI's latest filing, down from 11.14% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Operating Margin topped out at 14.19% in Q2 2021 and bottomed at 8.54% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Operating Margin over 5 years is 11.42%, with a median of 11.42% recorded in 2025.
  • The widest YoY moves for Operating Margin: up 6081bps in 2021, down -332bps in 2021.
  • A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 10.68% in 2021, then decreased by -12bps to 9.38% in 2022, then increased by 9bps to 10.21% in 2023, then decreased by -1bps to 10.11% in 2024, then grew by 2bps to 10.33% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Operating Margin were 10.33% in Q4 2025, 11.14% in Q3 2025, and 11.7% in Q2 2025.