UBS AG downgraded shares of Darden Restaurants (NYSE: DRI) from a buy rating to a neutral rating in a report issued on Monday.

Other equities research analysts have also recently issued reports about the stock. Analysts at Credit Suisse cut their EPS estimates on shares of Darden Restaurants in a research note on Wednesday. They now have a neutral rating and a $45.00 price target on the stock. Separately, analysts at RBC Capital cut their price target on shares of Darden Restaurants from $55.00 to $53.00 in a research note to investors on Thursday, February 28th. They now have an outperform rating on the stock. Finally, analysts at Sterne Agee reiterated a buy rating on shares of Darden Restaurants in a research note to investors on Thursday, February 28th. They now have a $55.00 price target on the stock.

Ten research analysts have rated the stock with a buy rating, one has given an overweight rating, twenty have assigned a hold rating, one has assigned an underweight rating, and one has given a sell rating to the company. Darden Restaurants has a consensus rating of overweight and a consensus target price of $48.56.

Shares of Darden Restaurants opened at 47.93 on Monday. Darden Restaurants has a one year low of $44.11 and a one year high of $57.93. The stock’s 50-day moving average is currently $46.36. The company has a market cap of $6.200 billion and a P/E ratio of 13.69.

Darden Restaurants, Inc. (Darden) is a company owned and full-service restaurant company. As of May 27, 2012, the Company operated through subsidiaries 1,994 restaurants in the United States and Canada.

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