Shares of Darden Restaurants Inc. DRI, -0.23% shed 0.23% to $161.84 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, +0.17% rising 0.17% to 4,754.63 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.05% falling 0.05% to 37,385.97.
Darden Restaurants Inc. closed $11.22 short of its 52-week high ($173.06), which the company reached on July 21st.
The stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors Friday, as McDonald’s Corp. MCD, +0.11% rose 0.11% to $291.70, Starbucks Corp. SBUX, -0.05% fell 0.05% to $95.28, and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG, -0.12% fell 0.12% to $2,304.35.
Trading volume (745,839) remained 273,014 below its 50-day average volume of 1.0 M.