Benzinga | Sep 24, 2020 07:02AM EDT

Darden Restaurants Q1 EPS $0.28 Beats $0.05 Estimate, Sales $1.53B Miss $1.56B Estimate

Darden Restaurants (NYSE:DRI) reported quarterly earnings of $0.28 per share which beat the analyst consensus estimate of $0.05 by 460 percent. This is a 79.71 percent decrease over earnings of $1.38 per share from the same period last year. The company reported quarterly sales of $1.53 billion which missed the analyst consensus estimate of $1.56 billion by 2.12 percent. This is a 28.44 percent decrease over sales of $2.13 billion the same period last year.