Darden Restaurants is a restaurant company. Co. owns and operates restaurants through subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada under several trademarks. Co. has four reportable segments: Olive Garden, which is a dining Italian restaurant operator; LongHorn Steakhouse, which is a steakhouse restaurant brand with locations primarily in the eastern U.S.; Fine Dining, which includes The Capital Grille and Eddie V's, both are fine dining restaurant brands with locations in main metropolitan cities in the U.S.; and Other Business, which includes the following restaurant brands, Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen, Yard House, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, and The Capital Burger. The DRI YTD return is shown above.
The YTD Return on the DRI YTD return page and across the coverage universe of our site,
is a measure of the total return for a given investment year-to-date for the current calendar year
(up to the end of prior trading session). Arguably, choosing the current calendar year for a measurement
period is on the one hand completely arbitrary, but on the other hand a year-to-date look can be extremely
useful in the context of our country's tax system which taxes gains and income on a calendar year basis.
Thus, researching Year-To-Date Returns is good practice for investors — whether DRI YTD return or other benchmarks/peers
— and when doing so it is also important to factor in dividends, because a financial instrument's YTD return is
more than just the change in price if that instrument pays a dividend or coupon. Our website aims to empower investors
by performing the DRI YTD return calculation (with any dividends reinvested as applicable), and to provide a
coverage universe of many stocks and ETFs to be able to compare YTD returns.
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