The company has 927.4M in debt with debt to equity (D/E) ratio of 40.0 . This implies that Darden Restaurants may be unable to create cash to meet all of its financial commitments. This firm dividends can provide a clue to current valuation of the stock. Darden Restaurants one year expected dividend income is about $1.38 per share. Lets now take a look at Darden Restaurants Profit Margin. Based on latest financial disclosure Darden Restaurants has Profit Margin of 8.08%. This is much higher than that of the Consumer Cyclical sector, and significantly higher than that of
Restaurants industry, The Profit Margin for all stocks is notably lower than Darden Restaurants.
We determine the current worth of Darden Restaurants using both absolute as well as relative valuation methodologies to arrive at its intrinsic value. In general, an absolute valuation paradigm, as applied to this company, attempts to find the value of Darden Restaurants based exclusively on its
fundamental and basic
technical indicators. By analyzing Darden Restaurants's
financials, quarterly and monthly indicators, and related drivers such as
dividends, operating cash flow, and various types of growth rates, we attempt to find the most accurate representation of Darden Restaurants's intrinsic value. In some cases, mostly for established, large-cap companies, we also incorporate more traditional valuation methods such as dividend discount, discounted cash flow, or asset-based models. As compared to an absolute model, our relative valuation model uses a comparative analysis of Darden Restaurants. We calculate exposure to Darden Restaurants's
market risk, different
technical and
fundamental indicators, relevant financial multiples and ratios, and then
comparing them to Darden Restaurants's related companies.
Darden Restaurants Investment Alerts
Darden investment alerts and warnings help investors to get more proficient at understanding not only critical technical and fundamental signals but also the significant portfolio-centered indicators. These indicators include beta, alpha, and other risk-related measures that will help you in monitoring Darden Restaurants performance across your portfolios.Please check all
investment alerts for Darden
Darden Restaurants Valuation Ratios as Compared to Competition
Our valuation model uses many indicators to compare Darden value to that of its competitors to determine the firm's financial worth. You can analyze the relationship between different fundamental ratios across Darden Restaurants competition to find
correlations between indicators driving the intrinsic value of Darden.
Darden Restaurants Gross Profit
Darden Restaurants Gross Profit growth is one of the most critical measures in evaluating the company. The Gross Profit growth rate is calculated simply by comparing Darden Restaurants previous period's values with its current period's values. Each time period you're measuring should be of equal lengths the increase or decrease, in a company's Gross Profit between two periods. Here we show Darden Restaurants Gross Profit growth over the last 10 years. Please check Darden Restaurants'
gross profit and other
fundamental indicators for more details.
A Deeper Perspective
Darden Restaurants utilizes its assets almost 9.65 percent, getting $0.0965 for each dollar of assets held by the firm. An increasing assets utilization denotes the company is being more effective with each dollar of assets it shows. In plain English assets utilization of Darden Restaurants shows how effective it operates for each dollar spent on its assets. The modest gains experienced by current holders of Darden Restaurants could raise concerns from investors as the firm closed today at a share price of
116.34 on
480377.000 in volume. The company directors and management have been quite successful with maneuvering the stock at opportune times to take advantage of all market conditions in
March. The stock standard deviation of daily returns for 30 days (very short) investing horizon is currently 1.4325. The below-average Stock volatility is a good sign for a longer term investment options and for buy-and-hold investors. Darden Restaurants is selling for 116.69. This is 0.29 percent up. Today lowest is 116.34. Darden Restaurants Capital Expenditure is increasing over the last 5 years. Moreover, Darden Restaurants Interest Coverage is decreasing over the last 5 years.
| Share Based Compensation | Net Cash Flow from Operations |
| 2013 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2014 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2015 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2018 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
| 2019 (projected) | 0.00 | 0.00 |
All in all, our analysis show that Darden Restaurants Follows market closely. The entity is
overvalued and projects odds of distress
very small for the next 2 years. Our concluding buy or sell advice on the entity is
Strong Buy.
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