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Darden Restaurants (DRI) Return on Invested Capital (2016 - 2025)

Darden Restaurants (DRI) has 16 years of Return on Invested Capital data on record, last reported at 0.3% in Q4 2025.

  • For Q4 2025, Return on Invested Capital fell 1.0% year-over-year to 0.3%; the TTM value through Nov 2025 reached 0.3%, down 1.0%, while the annual FY2025 figure was 0.3%, 4.0% down from the prior year.
  • Return on Invested Capital reached 0.3% in Q4 2025 per DRI's latest filing, up from 0.29% in the prior quarter.
  • Across five years, Return on Invested Capital topped out at 0.35% in Q2 2023 and bottomed at 0.05% in Q1 2021.
  • Average Return on Invested Capital over 5 years is 0.29%, with a median of 0.32% recorded in 2023.
  • Peak YoY movement for Return on Invested Capital: crashed -31bps in 2021, then soared 38bps in 2022.
  • A 5-year view of Return on Invested Capital shows it stood at 0.28% in 2021, then rose by 21bps to 0.33% in 2022, then dropped by -6bps to 0.31% in 2023, then fell by -2bps to 0.31% in 2024, then dropped by -2bps to 0.3% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant database, its latest 3 readings for Return on Invested Capital were 0.3% in Q4 2025, 0.29% in Q3 2025, and 0.28% in Q2 2025.