After Hours
After-hours and pre-market trading may carry slightly higher risks than regular market hours. As issuers often announce important financial information outside regular trading hours, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads for a particular security. That is because extended-hours trading may result in lower liquidity and higher volatility.
3 Tiny Stocks Primed to Explode
The world's greatest investor — Warren Buffett — has a simple formula for making big money in the markets. He buys up valuable assets when they are very cheap. For stock market investors that means buying up cheap small cap stocks like these with huge upside potential.
We've set up an alert service to help smart investors take full advantage of the small cap stocks primed for big returns.
Click here for full details and to join for free
Sponsored
Stocks Info
DRI belongs to the Consumer Cyclical sector of the NYSE while operating in the Restaurants industry. The current market capitalization of Darden Restaurants, Inc. is $19.03B. A total of 0.85 million shares were traded on the day, compared to an average of 1.26M shares.
In the most recent transaction, Martin Melvin John sold 3,000 shares of DRI for 163.30 per share on Oct 04 ’24. After the transaction, the President, SRG now owns 12,601 company shares. In a previous transaction on Oct 04 ’24, Martin Melvin John bought 3,000 shares at 163.04 per share.
Among the insiders who sold shares, Connelly Susan M. disposed of 3,320 shares on Oct 01 ’24 at a per-share price of $163.43. This resulted in the SVP, Chief Comm & PA Officer holding 6,155 shares of DRI after the transaction. In another insider transaction, Susan M. Connelly bought 3,320 shares at $163.83 per share on Sep 30 ’24.
Dividend
Paying dividends generates immediate cash flow for investors and indicates a positive outlook for the company. Darden Restaurants, Inc. pays an annual dividend of $5.42, resulting in a dividend yield of 3.35%, and it has a price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 18.70. DRI’s most recent ex-dividend date was 10/10/2024 when it declared a $1.40 quarterly dividend that was paid in cash on 11/1/2024. Previously, the company paid the dividend on 8/15/2024 with an ex-dividend date of 7/10/2024. The DRI stock dividend was $1.29 per share in cash.
While price targets are rarely accurate, they tend to exert some kind of influence from time to time and are often taken into account by investors. In terms of 52-week highs and lows, DRI has a high of $176.84 and a low of $135.87.
As of this writing, DRI has an earnings estimate of $2.04 per share for the current quarter. EPS was calculated based on a consensus of 26.0 estimates, with a high estimate of $2.21 per share and a lower estimate of $1.95. The company reported an EPS of $1.84 in the last quarter
Balance Sheet Annually/Quarterly
An organization’s balance sheet depicts the assets and liabilities it has, as well as the amount of equity invested. Investors can measure a company’s prospects by calculating its financial ratios using this information. DRI’s latest balance sheet shows that the firm has $420.60M in Cash & Short Term Investments as of fiscal 2022. There were $4.89B in debt and $1.85B in liabilities at the time. Its Book Value Per Share was $18.17, while its Total Shareholder’s Equity was $2.20B.
Analysts Opinion
There is a slight risk associated with trading before and after the market open. Due to lower liquidity and higher volatility, extended-hours trading may result in wider spreads on particular security due to the release of critical financial information after regular trading hours. Currently, 0 analysts are providing their opinions on the stock. On a scale of 1 to 5, with 1 being Sell and 5 being Buy, the average analyst rating for DRI is Buy with a score of 4.22.
