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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000940944-25-000048"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "DRI"
cik: "0000940944"
company_name: "DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC"
filed_at: "2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T06:11:05.820901+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.6
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Darden grants CEO $17M special PSU award linked to TSR; shareholder meeting results filed

## Summary
- CEO Ricardo Cardenas receives $17M target value performance stock units (PSUs) vesting July 24, 2030.
- Payout ranges 0-200% based on Darden's TSR vs S&P 500 over ~5-year performance period.
- All 9 director nominees elected; say-on-pay approved with 90.7M for, 3.7M against.
- Shareholder proposal for greenhouse gas emissions targets defeated (12.1M for, 81.9M against).
- KPMG ratified as independent auditor for fiscal year ending May 31, 2026.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000940944-25-000048
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: DRI
- cik: 0000940944
- company_name: DARDEN RESTAURANTS INC
- filed_at: 2025-09-19T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.6
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.6
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 5.07, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094425000048/0000940944-25-000048-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/940944/000094094425000048/dri-20250917.htm

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