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Profile - Darden Restaurants, Inc. (NYSE:DRI)
As of 31-Aug-2001
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Location
5900 Lake Ellenor Drive
Orlando, FL 32809
Phone: (407) 245-4000
Fax: (407) 245-4989
Email: irinfo@darden.com
Employees (last reported count): 128,900
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 ·Sector: Services
 ·Industry: Restaurants
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Ownership
·Insider and 5%+ Owners: 39%
·Over the last 6 months:
 · 6 insider sells; 72.0K shares
  (0.2% of insider shares)
·Institutional: 74% (120% of float)
(680 institutions)
·Net Inst. Buying: 315.0K shares
(prior quarter to latest quarter)
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Business Summary
Darden Restaurants, Inc. (Darden) is the world's largest casual dining restaurant organization. As of May 28, 2000, Darden operated approximately 1,100 restaurants in 49 states (the exception being Alaska), including approximately 620 Red Lobster, approximately 460 Olive Garden, 14 Bahama Breeze, and two Smokey Bones BBQ Sports Bar restaurants. In addition, the Company operated 37 restaurants in Canada, including 32 Red Lobster and five Olive Garden restaurants. The Company also operated one Olive Garden Cafe in the United States as of May 28, 2000. The Company operates all of its North American restaurants. In Japan, as of May 28, 2000, Red Lobster Japan Partners, a Japanese retailer unaffiliated with Darden, operated 35 Red Lobster restaurants pursuant to an Area Development and Franchise Agreement.
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Financial Summary
Darden Restaurants, Inc. is a full service restaurant organization. DRI operates 1,148 restaurants under the names: Red Lobster, The Olive Garden and Bahama Breeze. For the fiscal year ended 5/27/01, sales rose 9% to $4.02 billion. Net income rose 11% to $197 million. Revenues reflect a 7.2% increase in same store sales and the opening of new Bahama Breeze and Smokey Bones restaurants. Earnings also benefited from improved operating margins.
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Officers[Insider Trade Data]
FY2000 Compensation
PayExer

Joe Lee, 59
CEO and Chairman
$2.9M$1.9M
Bradley Blum, 46
Exec. VP
1.5M230K
Clarence Otis, 44
Sr. VP, CFO
1.0M--  
Linda Dimopoulos, 49
Sr. VP, CIO
--  --  
Steve Helsel, 55
Sr. VP, Corp. Controller
--  --  
Dollar amounts are as of 30-May-2000 and compensation values are for the fiscal year ending on that date; "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc.; "Exer" is the value of options excercised during the fiscal year.
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Statistics at a Glance -- NYSE:DRIAs of 31-Aug-2001
Price and Volume
52-Week Low
on 15-Sep-2000
$16.625
Recent Price$28.62 
52-Week High
on 17-July-2001
$32.50 
Beta0.33 
Daily Volume (3-month avg)944.8K
Daily Volume (10-day avg)618.0K
Stock Performance
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52-Week Change+59.5%
52-Week Change
relative to S&P500
+114.0%
Share-Related Items
Market Capitalization$3.37B
Shares Outstanding117.7M
Float71.8M
Dividends & Splits
Annual Dividend (indicated)$0.08 
Dividend Yield0.28%
Last Splitnone 
Per-Share Data
Book Value (mrq*)$8.82 
Earnings (ttm)$1.59 
Earnings (mrq)$0.50 
Sales (ttm)$32.51 
Cash (mrq*)$0.53 
Valuation Ratios
Price/Book (mrq*)3.25 
Price/Earnings (ttm)17.95 
Price/Sales (ttm)0.88 
Income Statements
Sales (ttm)$4.02B
EBITDA (ttm*)$478.7M
Income available to common (ttm)$197.0M
Profitability
Profit Margin (ttm)4.9%
Operating Margin (ttm)7.5%
Fiscal Year
Fiscal Year EndsMay 27
Most recent quarter
(fully updated)
27-May-2001
Most recent quarter
(flash earnings)
31-May-2001
Management Effectiveness
Return on Assets (ttm)9.38%
Return on Equity (ttm)19.79%
Financial Strength
Current Ratio (mrq*)0.59 
Debt/Equity (mrq*)0.51 
Total Cash (mrq)$61.8M
Short Interest
As of 8-Aug-2001
Shares Short3.16M
Percent of Float4.4%
Shares Short
(Prior Month)
3.32M
Short Ratio2.95 
Daily Volume1.07M
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