Goldman Sachs Sticks to Its Buy Rating for Darden Restaurants (DRI)
Goldman Sachs analyst Christine Cho maintained a Buy rating on Darden Restaurants yesterday and set a price target of $240.00. The company’s shares closed yesterday at $204.42.
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According to TipRanks, Cho is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 3.6% and a 59.04% success rate. Cho covers the Consumer Cyclical sector, focusing on stocks such as Brinker International, Darden Restaurants, and Jack In The Box.
Darden Restaurants has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $228.28, implying an 11.67% upside from current levels. In a report released today, Citi also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $238.00 price target.
Based on Darden Restaurants’ latest earnings release for the quarter ending February 22, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $3.35 billion and a net profit of $306.8 million. In comparison, last year the company earned a revenue of $3.16 billion and had a net profit of $323.4 million
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 63 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of DRI in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in January 2026, Charles Sonsteby, a Director at DRI sold 3,123.00 shares for a total of $641,183.13.
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