DRIDarden Restaurants
- Headquarters
- Orlando, FL
- CEO
- Ricardo Cardenas
- Next results
- around Dec 17, 2026
Dilution: new shares, stock pay and buybacks
prospectuses (S-3, 424B) of the last three years and the 10-K cash flow From EDGARShares offered
Since Nov 11, 2023: 1 shelf registration.
- Sep 26, 2025 Shelf registration: shares and other securities, amount not fixed S-3ASR
Every offering filing →“We may offer and sell from time to time, the securities described in this prospectus, in one or more offerings, in amounts and at prices and on terms that we may determine at the time of the offering.”
S-3ASR, Sep 26, 2025 ↗
Diluted shares: 116.30M in the year to May 31, 2026 2026 -1.8%2025 -2.0%2024 -1.7%2023 -4.7%
Change in the diluted weighted average share count from the fiscal year before, stock splits taken out. Bars use one scale for stock pay and buybacks. Prospectuses are read from their cover page; preliminary ones are left out. Cash & buybacks, year by year → · How
FY2026, from the cash flow statement in the 10-K, added up.
Came from
| Operating cash flow | $1.9B |
| Shares sold | $25.0M |
| Cash on hand used | $26.9M |
| Other, net investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates |
$193.7M |
Went to
| Capital spending | $734.0M |
| Buybacks | $671.7M |
| Dividends | $693.0M |
Each number is a line of the cash flow statement as the company tagged it. "Other, net" is what those lines do not cover (investments bought and sold, other financing and investing lines, and exchange rates); Tickdelta does not estimate it.
Each CEO's years
The CEO of each fiscal year as named in the proxy's pay versus performance table, and what the 10-Ks show for those years. Facts, not a grade.
Ricardo Cardenas
- Operating cash flow
- $6.7B
- Capital spending
- $2.5B
- Acquisitions
- $1.3B
- Buybacks
- $2.0B
- Dividends
- $2.6B
- Stock-based pay
- $294.2M
- Diluted shares since FY2022
- -9.8%
- Revenue since FY2022
- +37%
- Debt since FY2022
- +$1.4B
- CEO pay (reported)
- $69.3M
Eugene I. Lee, Jr.
- Operating cash flow
- $1.3B
- Capital spending
- $376.9M
- Buybacks
- $1.1B
- Dividends
- $563.0M
- Stock-based pay
- $60.5M
- Diluted shares since FY2021
- -2.1%
- Revenue since FY2021
- +34%
- Debt since FY2021
- -$28.8M
- CEO pay (reported)
- $11.9M
| Fiscal year to | Buybacks | Dividends | Stock pay | Shares issued for cash | Diluted shares |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-05-31 | $671.7M | $693.0M | $79.1M | $25.0M | 116.30M |
| 2025-05-25 | $418.2M | $658.5M | $79.1M | $55.6M | 118.40M |
| 2024-05-26 | $453.9M | $628.4M | $68.5M | $43.6M | 120.80M |
| 2023-05-28 | $458.7M | $589.8M | $67.5M | $35.4M | 122.90M |
| 2022-05-29 | $1.1B | $563.0M | $60.5M | $40.2M | 129.00M |
From the XBRL of the 10-Ks (cash flow statement and diluted weighted average shares); each year as reported in the latest 10-K that includes it. Concepts: buybacks = PaymentsForRepurchaseOfCommonStock; dividends = PaymentsOfDividends; sbc = ShareBasedCompensation; issuance = ProceedsFromIssuanceOfCommonStock; diluted_shares = WeightedAverageNumberOfDilutedSharesOutstanding.
Price paid per share
What DRI paid on average for each share it bought back, each fiscal year: dollars spent divided by shares bought, both from the 10-K.
| Fiscal year to | Shares bought | Spent | Average price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-05-31 | 2.90M | $330.3M | $113.90 | |
| 2019-05-26 | 1.90M | $207.5M | $109.21 | |
| 2018-05-27 | 2.80M | $234.8M | $83.86 | |
| 2017-05-28 | 3.70M | $230.2M | $62.22 | |
| 2016-05-29 | 3.00M | $184.8M | $61.60 | |
| 2015-05-31 | 10.00M | $502.3M | $50.23 | |
| 2013-05-26 | 1.00M | $52.4M | $52.40 | |
| 2012-05-27 | 8.20M | $375.1M | $45.74 | |
| 2011-05-29 | 8.60M | $385.5M | $44.83 | |
| 2010-05-30 | 2.00M | $85.1M | $42.55 |
Shares and dollars from the statement of shareholders' equity (the cash flow line also counts shares withheld for taxes, so it is not used). Share counts filed before a stock split are put on today's count. A year where the 10-K does not tag both numbers is left out. The latest year with both numbers tagged is 2020.
Work on DRI in a spreadsheet:
Excel workbook (a sheet per section, ten years by column, charts, links to the filings) ·
CSV.
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