Darden Restaurants Reports Strong Fourth Quarter And Full Year Results; Company Provides Fiscal 2016 Outlook

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Piper Jaffray Raises Price Target on Darden Restaurants (DRI) Following 4Q15 Results

June 24, 2015 9:32 AM EDT

Piper Jaffray reiterates a Neutral rating on Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), and raised the price target to $66.00 (from $60.00), following its 4Q15 results. Operating EPS of $1.08 per share came in ahead of consensus expectations of $0.93.

Analyst Nicole Regan commented, "Darden recently reported 4Q15 results that... More

RBC Capital Raises Price Target on Darden Restaurants (DRI) Based on Fundamentals and Likely Value From REIT

June 24, 2015 7:12 AM EDT

RBC Capital reiterates a Sector Perform rating on Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI), and raised the price target to $74.00 (from $70.00), to reflect improved fundamentals and likely value from the separation of the company's real estate portfolio into a REIT. Analyst David Palmer believes that McDonalds and... More

Darden Restaurants (DRI) Plans to Spin Certain Real Estate Assets, Will form New REIT

June 23, 2015 7:05 AM EDT

Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) announced that its Board of Directors approved a strategic real estate plan to pursue a separation of a portion of the Company's real estate assets. The separation would be achieved through a combination of selected sale leaseback transactions and the transfer of a portion of its remaining real estate assets to a new real estate investment trust ("REIT") that will be separated by a spin-off, split-off or similar transaction, resulting in the REIT becoming an independent, publicly-traded company (the "REIT Transaction").

The Company's Board reached this decision after considering various... More