shares of darden restaurants inc dri inched 021 higher to 14014 tuesday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 056 to 382811 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 102 to 3316083 darden restaurants inc closed 1549 short of its 52week high 15563 which the company reached on november 9th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors tuesday as cracker barrel old country store inc cbrl fell 083 to 11241 bloomin brands inc blmn rose 131 to 2320 and dine brands global inc din rose 015 to 7400 trading volume 857458 remained 423414 below its 50day average volume of 13 m editors note this story was autogenerated by automated insights an automation technology provider using data from dow jones and factset see our market data terms of use