Darden Restaurants authorizes $1.5B for stock buybacks

How big is it?

Darden Restaurants bought back $710M of stock in the twelve months to Aug 30, 2026. At that pace, $1.5B covers about 2.1 years of buybacks.

The amount equals 142% of its free cash flow over the same twelve months ($1.1B).

Its diluted share count is down 2.7% from a year earlier.

An authorization is permission, not a promise: the company can buy less, more slowly, or not at all, and usually doesn't have to say when it buys.

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