Darden Restaurants Inc (DRI): Today's Featured Leisure Laggard

Darden Restaurants was a leading decliner within the leisure industry, falling $0.81 (-1.6%) to $50.34 on light volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

Darden Restaurants

(

DRI

) pushed the Leisure industry lower today making it today's featured Leisure laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.1%. By the end of trading, Darden Restaurants fell $0.81 (-1.6%) to $50.34 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1,048,036 shares of Darden Restaurants exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1,397,700 shares. The stock ranged in price between $50.08-$51.08 after having opened the day at $50.74 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $51.15. Other companies within the Leisure industry that declined today were:

Del Frisco's Restaurant Group

(

DFRG

), down 5.8%,

Chuy's Holdings

(

CHUY

), down 5.3%,

Buffalo Wild Wings

(

BWLD

), down 4.3% and

Diversified Restaurant Holdings

(

BAGR

), down 3.2%.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. owns and operates full service restaurants in the United States and Canada. It operates restaurants under the Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze, Seasons 52, Eddie V's Prime Seafood, and Wildfish Seafood Grille brand names. Darden Restaurants has a market cap of $6.5 billion and is part of the services sector. Shares are up 11.9% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are 8 analysts that rate Darden Restaurants a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 14 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Darden Restaurants

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, reasonable valuation levels, good cash flow from operations and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had somewhat weak growth in earnings per share.

On the positive front,

Bally Technologies

(

BYI

), up 7.0%,

PokerTek

(

PTEK

), up 4.2%,

Multimedia Games

(

MGAM

), up 3.1% and

Einstein Noah Restaurant Group

(

BAGL

), up 2.8% , were all gainers within the leisure industry with

Royal Caribbean Cruises

(

RCL

) being today's featured leisure industry leader.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the leisure industry could consider

PowerShares Dynamic Leisure&Entert

(

PEJ

) while those bearish on the leisure industry could consider

ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Services

(

SCC

).

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