Darden Restaurants (DRI) Operating Margin (2009 - 2025)

Darden Restaurants' Operating Margin history runs 17 years deep, the most recent figure standing at 11.28% for FY2025.

• In Q1 2026, Operating Margin fell 109.0% year-over-year to 12.15%; the TTM figure through Feb 2026 stood at 11.35% (down 34.0% YoY), while the FY2025 annual figure was 11.28%, down 26.0% from the prior year.
• Operating Margin was 11.28% for FY2025 at Darden Restaurants, down from 11.54% in the prior year.
• In the past five years, Operating Margin ranged from a high of 12.07% in FY2022 to a low of 9.01% in FY2021.
• Historically, Operating Margin has averaged 11.07% across 5 years, with a median of 11.46% in 2023.
• The sharpest annual moves came in 2021 and 2023: Operating Margin soared 840 bps in 2021, then tumbled 61 bps in 2023.
• A 5-year view of Operating Margin shows it stood at 9.01% in 2021, then soared by 34 bps to 12.07% in 2022, then fell by 5 bps to 11.46% in 2023, then climbed by 1 bps to 11.54% in 2024, then retreated by 2 bps to 11.28% in 2025.
• The last three Operating Margin figures came in at 11.28% (FY2025), 11.54% (FY2024), and 11.46% (FY2023), per Business Quant data.