DRI·Darden Restaurants, Inc.

Realized volatility (21d)

33.1% 81st pct

Below its peak

-12.2%

vs 200-day average

-2.1%

Up days (1y)

50%

Darden Restaurants, Inc. is currently running 33.1% annualised volatility over the last 21 sessions. Measured against DRI's own 13 years of daily returns rather than a market-wide average, that is the 81st percentile — elevated for this stock, against a typical reading of 23.1%. The distinction matters because a number that looks calm for one stock is turbulent for another, and the absolute figure on its own tells you neither.

DRI is trading -12.2% below its running peak. Across 12 full years on file, its median worst-drawdown-in-a-year was -19.3%, and the deepest was -69.9% in 2020. The current pullback is therefore shallower than what this stock gives back in a typical year, which is context worth having before treating it as a dislocation.

Price sits -2.1% from its 200-day moving average. Against every other day in its history, that gap ranks at the 23rd percentile — a narrower gap than it typically runs. Over the past year DRI closed higher on 50% of sessions, and it is currently 1 session into a falling streak.

On October specifically: over 13 years of records, DRI finished the month higher 6 of 13 times, with a median return of -1.5% and an average of -0.4%. Its strongest month historically has been November at +5.6% on average, its weakest March at -1.3%. Seasonality is a weak signal on its own — a decade is a small sample and regimes change — but it is a real distribution rather than a rule of thumb.

Overnight risk is measurable too: DRI has opened more than 2% away from the prior close in 126 of 3,267 sessions (3.9% of the time), with the largest gaps running +10.4% and -11.9%. For anyone holding through an event, that rate is a better guide to overnight exposure than the intraday range.

Across the last 3 dated reports on file, DRI moved an average of 2.8% in the session after earnings, closing higher 1 of those 3 times, with a median move of -2.5% and a largest of -5.3%.

All figures computed from 3,268 daily closes between 2013-10-07 and 2026-10-05, split-adjusted, recomputed daily. Percentiles are against DRI's own 13-year history, not a peer group or index.