shares of darden restaurants inc dri inched 014 higher to 14734 friday on what proved to be an allaround favorable trading session for the stock market with the sp 500 index spx rising 161 to 404564 and the dow jones industrial average djia rising 117 to 3339097 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains darden restaurants inc closed 474 short of its 52week high 15208 which the company achieved on january 11th the stock underperformed when compared to some of its competitors friday as mcdonalds corp mcd rose 056 to 26907 starbucks corp sbux rose 150 to 10455 and chipotle mexican grill inc cmg rose 099 to 151000 trading volume 11 m eclipsed its 50day average volume of 11 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