Option Greeks measure how an option's price responds to changes in the stock price (delta and gamma), time (theta), implied volatility (vega), and interest rates (rho).

Gamma, theta, and vega are largest for strikes near the Darden Restaurants stock price and shrink for strikes far above or below it. Theta grows as expiration gets closer, while vega is larger for expirations further out. Call delta runs from 0 to 1 and put delta from -1 to 0, near 0.50 and -0.50 at the money, and roughly estimates the chance that an option finishes in the money.

Darden Restaurants IV rank is 9, so implied volatility is near the bottom of its one-year range. Higher implied volatility raises option premiums and daily time decay (theta), and spreads delta and gamma across a wider range of strikes. Over the past year, 30-day implied volatility ranged from 20.0% to 162.7%. See the DRI implied volatility history for a longer view.

Across all open Darden Restaurants options on Nov 4, 2026, net gamma exposure was $2.6M and net delta exposure was $71.87M per 1% move in the stock. The DRI gamma exposure chart shows where that gamma sits by strike.

Darden Restaurants is the largest global full-service dining operator, with over $13 billion in system sales across 2,202 company-owned stores at the end of fiscal 2026, spanning the US and Canada.