Yum! Brands is a restaurants business based in the US. Yum! Brands shares (YUM) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was $147.30 – an increase of 2.78% over the previous week. Yum! Brands employs 40,000 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around $7.5 billion.
The Finder Score crunches 147 key metrics we collected directly from 18+ brokers and assessed each provider’s performance based on nine different categories, weighing each metric based on the expertise and insights of Finder’s investment experts. We then scored and ranked each provider to determine the best brokerage accounts.
We update our best picks as products change, disappear or emerge in the market. We also regularly review and revise our selections to ensure our best provider lists reflect the most competitive available.
Paid non-client promotion. Finder does not invest money with providers on this page. If a brand is a referral partner, we're paid when you click or tap through to, open an account with or provide your contact information to the provider. Partnerships are not a recommendation for you to invest with any one company. Learn more about how we make money.
Finder is not an advisor or brokerage service. Information on this page is for educational purposes only and not a recommendation to invest with any one company, trade specific stocks or fund specific investments. All editorial opinions are our own.
| Latest market close | $147.30 |
|---|---|
| 52-week range | $121.56 - $163.30 |
| 50-day moving average | $152.21 |
| 200-day moving average | $138.33 |
| Wall St. target price | $155.00 |
| PE ratio | 28.272 |
| Dividend yield | $2.72 (1.94%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | $5.22 |
The technical analysis gauge below displays real-time ratings for the timeframes you select. This is not a recommendation, however. It represents a technical analysis based on the most popular technical indicators: Moving Averages, Oscillators and Pivots. Finder might not concur and takes no responsibility.
This chart is not advice or a guarantee of success. Rather, it gauges the real-time recommendations of three popular technical indicators: moving averages, oscillators and pivots. Finder is not responsible for how your stock performs.
Historical closes compared with the close of $147.58 from 2025-04-24
| 1 week (2025-04-17) | 2.98% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2025-03-26) | -7.00% |
| 3 months (2025-01-24) | 15.06% |
| 6 months (2024-10-25) | 10.93% |
| 1 year (2024-04-26) | 4.10% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2023-04-26) | 11.13% |
| 3 years (2022-04-26) | 33.95% |
| 5 years (2020-04-24) | 88.63% |
Valuing Yum! Brands stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Yum! Brands's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Yum! Brands's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 28x. In other words, Yum! Brands shares trade at around 28x recent earnings.
That's comparable to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29).
Yum! Brands's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.1351. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Yum! Brands's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Yum! Brands's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is $2.7 billion.
The EBITDA is a measure of a Yum! Brands's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.
| Revenue TTM | $7.5 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 30.61% |
| Gross profit TTM | $3.6 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 24.49% |
| Return on equity TTM | 0% |
| Profit margin | 19.69% |
| Book value | $-27.41 |
| Market Capitalization | $41.1 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Yum! Brands.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 16.14
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Yum! Brands's overall score of 16.14 (as at 12/31/2018) is excellent – landing it in it in the 13rd percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Yum! Brands is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 0.16/100
Social score: 8.54/100
Governance score: 1.95/100
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Yum! Brands scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Yum! Brands hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
Yum! Brands Inc was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 16.14 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 12.8 |
| Environmental score | 0.16 |
| Social score | 8.54 |
| Governance score | 1.95 |
| Level of controversy | 3 |
Dividend payout ratio: 49.64% of net profits
Recently Yum! Brands has paid out, on average, around 0% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 0% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Yum! Brands shareholders could enjoy a 0% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Yum! Brands's case, that would currently equate to about $2.72 per share.
While Yum! Brands's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Yum! Brands may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.
Yum! Brands's most recent dividend payout was on 6 March 2025. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 20 February 2025 (the "ex-dividend date").
Yum! Brands's shares were split on a 1391:1000 basis on 31 October 2016 . So if you had owned 1000 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1391 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Yum! Brands shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 28.1% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Yum! Brands shares which in turn could have impacted Yum! Brands's share price.
Over the last 12 months, Yum! Brands's shares have ranged in value from as little as $121.5556 up to $163.3. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Yum! Brands's is 0.893. This would suggest that Yum! Brands's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
Yum! Brands, Inc. , together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises quick service restaurants worldwide. It operates through four segments: KFC Division, Taco Bell Division, Pizza Hut Division, and Habit Burger & Grill Division segments. The company also operates restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger & Grill brands, which specialize in chicken, made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches, Mexican-style food and pizza categories, and other products. The company was formerly known as TRICON Global Restaurants, Inc. and changed its name to Yum! Brands, Inc. in May 2002.
Steps to owning and managing SBUX, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.
Steps to owning and managing PEP, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.
Steps to owning and managing MDLZ, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.
Steps to owning and managing MCD, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.
Steps to owning and managing KO, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.
Steps to owning and managing CMG, with 24-hour and historical pricing before you buy.