shares of darden restaurants inc dri inched 043 higher to 17218 thursday on what proved to be an allaround mixed trading session for the stock market with the dow jones industrial average djia rising 047 to 3522518 and the sp 500 index spx falling 068 to 453487 this was the stocks fourth consecutive day of gains darden restaurants inc hit a new 52week high surpassing its previous peak of 17205 which the company reached on july 19th the stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors thursday as mcdonalds corp mcd rose 102 to 29713 starbucks corp sbux fell 093 to 10088 and chipotle mexican grill inc cmg fell 208 to 209471 trading volume 10 m remained 314154 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