Dine Brands (DIN) Reports Q4: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Dine Brands (DIN) Reports Q4: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Radek Strnad

Tue, February 24, 2026 at 6:05 PM GMT+9 2 min read

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Casual restaurant chain Dine Brands (NYSE:DIN) will be announcing earnings results tomorrow before market hours. Here’s what you need to know.

Dine Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $216.2 million, up 10.8% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

Is Dine Brands a buy or sell going into earnings? Read our full analysis here, it’s free for active Edge members.

This quarter, the market is expecting Dine Brands’s revenue to grow 10.5% year on year, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year.

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Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Dine Brands has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates multiple times over the last two years.

Looking at Dine Brands’s peers in the sit-down dining segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Brinker International delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.9%, and Texas Roadhouse reported revenues up 3.1%, falling short of estimates by 0.8%. Brinker International traded up 2.1% following the results while Texas Roadhouse was down 2%.

Read our full analysis of Brinker International’s results here and Texas Roadhouse’s results here.

Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the sit-down dining stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 4.2% on average over the last month. Dine Brands is down 10.5% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $34.25 (compared to the current share price of $30.68).

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