Darden Restaurants, Inc. is a full-service restaurant company. It owns and operates approximately 2,031 restaurants through subsidiaries in the U.S. and Canada. It also owns 146 restaurants operated by independent third parties pursuant to area development and franchise agreements and four restaurants operating under contractual agreements. Its segments include Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, Fine Dining, and Other Businesses. Olive Garden is an internally-developed brand and a full-service Italian dining restaurant operator in the U.S.. Olive Garden offers a variety of Italian foods. 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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