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8/28/2008 12:18 PM

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (DRI)

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A publicly held casual dining restaurant company that operates Red Lobster, Olive Garden, Bahamas Breeze, Smokey Bones Barbeque & Grill and Seasons restaurants. The company owns and operates all of the restaurants in the United States and Canada.

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Avatar NetscribeRstrnts (< 20) Submitted: 4/26/07 2:22 AM : Outperform Start Price: $40.74 DRI Score: -17.61

Olive Garden, a restaurant concept of Darden Restaurants, Inc., recently achieved 50 consecutive quarters of positive U.S. same-restaurant sales growth. This demonstrates the company's strong brand identity and commitment to delivering a genuine Ital...

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Avatar BestofAmerica (36.01) Submitted: 11/10/07 12:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $42.19 DRI Score: -17.49

The Olive Garden in our area is constantly packed and has been for at least the past year. It is located in a very upscale area of Houston and seems to draw mostly people from the older surrounding areas. The Red Lobster is not nearly as crowded bu...

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Avatar jmacn22 (91.15) Submitted: 8/31/06 5:55 AM : Underperform Start Price: $34.40 DRI Score: 17.21

Smokey Bones and Bahama Breeze are weighing down Darden's overall performance and this is expected to continue into the near future as management puts together a new strategy to unlock value out of Smokey Bones... like scrapping the BBQ concept altog...

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Avatar TMFGebinr (24.15) Submitted: 9/14/06 4:10 PM : Outperform Start Price: $37.43 DRI Score: -23.25

Steady growth at Olive Garden and Red Lobster, the two primary chains, has allowed this company to grow steadily over the past several years. Even with consumer spending slowing down due to higher energy prices (and even those are lower now than they...

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Avatar LordZ (92.07) Submitted: 8/26/08 10:38 PM : Outperform Start Price: $28.17 DRI Score: -1.80

The stock took a nice 12% haircut based upon reduced forecast, that previously was upgraded.

So why not take the chance that maybe just maybe the original guidance was more correct than the revision ?

So i'm taking a chance with this one, tried to ...

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Avatar mrnew (64.61) Submitted: 12/19/07 1:40 PM : Outperform Start Price: $28.22 DRI Score: 10.61

Ridiculous over-reaction to the third quarter numbers. RARE acquisition should be a good move.

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Avatar RDGTexas100 (20.99) Submitted: 12/20/07 1:13 PM : Outperform Start Price: $26.50 DRI Score: 17.12

Everyone eats. Olive Garden & Red Lobster will remain favorites once the economy picks up again.

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Avatar ntch (77.33) Submitted: 12/19/07 10:10 AM : Outperform Start Price: $29.39 DRI Score: 7.42

Bad news already priced in prior to earnings.

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Avatar chk999longonly (99.47) Submitted: 12/18/07 11:26 PM : Outperform Start Price: $31.13 DRI Score: 1.63

This is at a 52 week low.

This has a bunch of specialty restaurants.
Try to get a table at a Red Lobster sometime,
that place is jammed.
Some execution bobbles on their barbeque place, but I thing this will rebound well.

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Avatar KNolen (73.31) Submitted: 6/21/07 1:25 PM : Outperform Start Price: $42.09 DRI Score: -18.67

Now that DRI has a plan to shake off Smokey Bones and its drag on performance, things will improve. They will continue to expand and improve operations and will come up with a new concept to take the growth harness that SB failed to fill.

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