shares of darden restaurants inc dri inched 010 higher to 14522 monday on what proved to be an allaround rough trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx falling 024 to 437394 and dow jones industrial average djia falling 049 to 3389260 this was the stocks third consecutive day of gains darden restaurants inc closed 1906 short of its 52week high 16428 which the company reached on september 23rd the stock outperformed some of its competitors monday as cracker barrel old country store inc cbrl fell 081 to 13427 bloomin brands inc blmn fell 144 to 2461 and dine brands global inc din fell 030 to 8384 trading volume 16 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 12 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