Trending NewsTrending NewsNYSE:YUM Yum! Brands (YUM) Stock Price, News & Analysis $149.75 -4.70 (-3.04%) Closing price 10/23/2026 03:59 PM EasternExtended Trading$149.71 -0.05 (-0.03%) As of 10/23/2026 07:30 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. Add Compare Share Share Stock Analysis Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsDividendEarningsFinancialsInsider TradesNews and TrendsOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort Interest About Yum! Brands Stock (NYSE:YUM) View Price History Chart DataSkip Price History Chart 1 Day 5 Days 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year Advanced 1 Day 1 Day 5 Days 30 Days 90 Days 1 Year Advanced Show volume Show extended hours Get Yum! Brands alerts:Sign Up Key Stats Today's Range$147.79▼$154.1950-Day Range$135.98▼$157.4252-Week Range$134.26▼$170.14Volume2.56 million shsAverage Volume2.30 million shsMarket Capitalization$40.87 billionP/E Ratio23.28Dividend Yield2.00%Price Target$171.33Consensus RatingModerate Buy Company Overview Yum! Brands, Inc. is a global restaurant company that operates, franchises and licenses quick-service and fast-casual restaurants. Its principal brands are KFC, which specializes in fried and other chicken products; Taco Bell, which offers Mexican-inspired food; Pizza Hut, which sells pizzas and related menu items; and The Habit Burger Grill, a fast-casual burger restaurant chain. The company’s business is primarily franchise-based, with restaurants operated by independent franchisees and licensees alongside company-operated locations. Yum! Brands supports its restaurant system through brand management, menu development, digital ordering, delivery capabilities, restaurant technology and franchise services. Its brands serve customers in more than 155 countries and territories, with a particularly significant international presence through KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. Yum! Brands was formed in 1997 as Tricon Global Restaurants after being spun off from PepsiCo, and adopted the Yum! Brands name in 2002. The company expanded its portfolio through the acquisition of The Habit Burger Grill in 2020. Chris Turner became Yum! Brands’ chief executive officer in October 2024, succeeding David Gibbs.AI Generated. May Contain Errors. Read More Yum! Brands Stock Analysis - MarketRank™See Top-Rated MarketRank™ Stocks87th Percentile Overall ScoreYUM MarketRank™: 4.34837762051 of 5 starsYum! Brands scored higher than 87% of companies evaluated by MarketBeat, and ranked 126th out of 480 stocks in the consumer discretionary sector. Scores are calculated by averaging available category scores, with extra weight given to analysis and valuation. Analyst's Opinion3.5 / 5Analyst RatingModerate Buy Consensus RatingYum! Brands has received a consensus rating of Moderate Buy. The company's average rating score is 2.62, and is based on no strong buy ratings, 13 buy ratings, 8 hold ratings, and no sell ratings.Upside PotentialYum! Brands has a consensus price target of $171.33, representing about 14.4% upside from its current price of $149.75.Amount of Analyst CoverageYum! Brands has been the subject of 11 research reports in the past 90 days, demonstrating strong analyst interest in this stock.Read more about Yum! Brands' stock forecast and price target. Earnings and Valuation2.5 / 5Proj. Earnings Growth7.45% Earnings GrowthEarnings for Yum! Brands are expected to grow by 7.45% in the coming year, from $6.44 to $6.92 per share.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. the MarketThe P/E ratio of Yum! Brands is 18.84, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the market average P/E ratio of about 38.82.Price to Earnings Ratio vs. SectorThe P/E ratio of Yum! Brands is 18.84, which means that it is trading at a less expensive P/E ratio than the Consumer Discretionary sector average P/E ratio of about 45.40.Price to Earnings Growth RatioYum! Brands has a PEG Ratio of 2.47. PEG Ratios above 1 indicate that a company could be overvalued.Read more about Yum! Brands' valuation and earnings. Short Interest2.0 / 5Short Interest LevelBearish Percentage of Shares Shorted4.55% of the float of Yum! Brands has been sold short.Short Interest Ratio / Days to CoverYum! Brands has a short interest ratio ("days to cover") of 4.97.Change versus previous monthShort interest in Yum! Brands has recently increased by 25.98%, indicating that investor sentiment is decreasing significantly. Dividend3.3 / 5Dividend StrengthStrong Dividend YieldYum! Brands pays a meaningful dividend of 1.94%, higher than the bottom 25% of all stocks that pay dividends.Dividend GrowthYum! Brands has been increasing its dividend for 8 years.Dividend CoverageThe dividend payout ratio of Yum! Brands is 37.74%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%.Dividend SustainabilityBased on earnings estimates, Yum! Brands will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.35% next year. This indicates that Yum! Brands will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.Read more about Yum! Brands' dividend. News and Social Media2.6 / 5News Sentiment0.11 News SentimentYum! Brands has a news sentiment score of 0.11. This score is calculated as an average of sentiment of articles about the company over the last seven days and ranges from 2 (good news) to -2 (bad news). This is a lower news sentiment than the 0.41 average news sentiment score of Consumer Discretionary companies.News Coverage This WeekMarketBeat has tracked 22 news articles for Yum! Brands this week, compared to 9 articles on an average week.Search InterestOnly 33 people have searched for YUM on MarketBeat in the last 30 days. This is a decrease of -11% compared to the previous 30 days.MarketBeat Follows6 people have added Yum! Brands to their MarketBeat watchlist in the last 30 days. This is an increase of 100% compared to the previous 30 days. Company Ownership1.4 / 5Insider TradingSelling Shares Insider Buying vs. Insider SellingIn the past three months, Yum! Brands insiders have sold more of their company's stock than they have bought. Specifically, they have bought $0.00 in company stock and sold $1,966,393.00 in company stock.Percentage Held by Insiders0.14% of the stock of Yum! Brands is held by insiders.Percentage Held by Institutions82.37% of the stock of Yum! Brands is held by institutions. High institutional ownership can be a signal of strong market trust in this company.Read more about Yum! Brands' insider trading history. 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Unsubscribe at any time by replying "STOP" to any text message that you receive from MarketBeat or by visiting our mailing preferences page. Read our full terms of service and privacy policy. YUM Stock News HeadlinesYum! Brands Inc. stock underperforms Friday when compared to competitorsOctober 23 at 7:33 PM | marketwatch.comYum! Brands' Growth Set to Accelerate as Taco Bell Recovers, UBS SaysOctober 23 at 7:33 PM | finance.yahoo.comFinancial legend: “This is bad, really bad...”Dr. Martin D. Weiss has publicly predicted six major American market crashes over his 55-year career, each warning issued before the crisis hit. Now the founder of Weiss Ratings, the only conflict-free rating agency in America, says he is watching a $3 trillion problem that could trigger a chain reaction across markets and banks.October 24 at 1:00 AM | Weiss Ratings (Ad)Yum Brands Third-Quarter Earnings Likely Weighed Down by Cyclospora Outbreak, UBS SaysOctober 23 at 7:33 PM | finance.yahoo.comYum! Brands Slides as Sector Weakness Appears to Outweigh Recent Positive Brand NewsOctober 23 at 1:51 PM | quiverquant.comQCitigroup Has Lowered Expectations for Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) Stock PriceOctober 23 at 1:43 AM | americanbankingnews.comInsider Selling: Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) CEO Sells 285 Shares of Company StockOctober 8, 2026 | insidertrades.comInsider Selling: Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) CEO Sells 241 Shares of StockOctober 2, 2026 | insidertrades.comSee More Headlines YUM Stock Analysis - Frequently Asked Questions How have YUM shares performed this year? Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $151.31 at the beginning of 2026. Since then, YUM stock has decreased by 1.0% and is now trading at $149.7510. How were Yum! Brands' earnings last quarter? Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) issued its earnings results on Thursday, July, 30th. The restaurant operator reported $1.62 earnings per share for the quarter, beating analysts' consensus estimates of $1.58 by $0.04. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 12.2% on a year-over-year basis. Read the conference call transcript. How will Yum! Brands' stock buyback program work? Yum! Brands' Board of Directors authorized a stock repurchase plan on Tuesday, June 16th 2026, which authorizes the company to buy back $4,000,000,000 in shares, according to EventVestor. This means that the company could reacquire up to 9.4% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are generally an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued. Does Yum! Brands have any subsidiaries? The following companies are subsidiaries of Yum! Brands: Dragontail Systems, tictuk technologies, Kvantum, Heartstyles, The Habit Burger Grill, Little Sheep, A&W Restaurants, and more. Who are Yum! Brands' major shareholders? Top institutional shareholders of Yum! Brands include V Square Quantitative Management LLC, Moody National Bank Trust Division, CX Institutional and Grove Bank & Trust. Insiders that own company stock include David W Gibbs, Christopher Lee Turner, Scott Catlett, Aaron Powell, David Eric Russell, Mark James King, Sean Tresvant, Weir Mirian M Graddick, Scott Mezvinsky, Sabir Sami, Erika Burkhardt and Paget Leonard Alves. View institutional ownership trends. How do I buy shares of Yum! Brands? Shares of YUM stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services. What other stocks do shareholders of Yum! Brands own? Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some other companies that Yum! Brands investors own include Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), McDonald's (MCD), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Walmart (WMT) and PepsiCo (PEP). Company Calendar Last Earnings7/30/2026Record date for 9/18 Dividend9/09/2026Ex-Dividend for 9/18 Dividend9/09/2026Dividend Payable9/18/2026Today10/24/2026Next Earnings (Estimated)11/03/2026Fiscal Year End12/31/2026Get Stock Alerts Health Indicator TradeSmith's Health IndicatorA long-term volatility-based measure designed for securities held 12 months or longer.Green: Strong and healthy uptrend with normal pullbacks.Yellow: Significant pullback but still within expected volatility.Red: Dropped beyond expected volatility; considered unhealthy. Red Zone (1m+) 1-Year History Oct 25 Jan 26 Apr 26 Jul 26 Oct 26 YUM's financial health is in the Red zone, according to TradeSmith. YUM has been in this zone for over one month. Industry, Sector and Symbol Stock ExchangeNYSE SectorConsumer Discretionary Industry Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure Sub-IndustryRestaurants Current SymbolNYSE:YUM CIK1041061 Webwww.yum.com Phone(502) 874-8300Fax502-874-8323Employees49,000Year Founded1997Price Target and Rating Average Price Target for Yum! Brands$171.33 High Price Target$190.00 Low Price Target$150.00 Potential Upside/Downside+14.4%Consensus RatingModerate Buy Rating Score (0-4)2.62 Research Coverage21 Analysts Profitability EPS (Trailing Twelve Months)$7.95 Trailing P/E Ratio23.28 Forward P/E Ratio23.00 P/E Growth2.4Net Income$1.56 billion Net Margins25.42% Pretax Margin25.20% Return on Equity-24.57% Return on Assets22.24% Debt Debt-to-Equity RatioN/A Current Ratio0.59 Quick Ratio0.59 Sales & Book Value Annual Sales$8.21 billion Price / Sales4.98 Cash Flow$6.87 per share Price / Cash Flow21.81 Book Value($26.38) per share Price / Book-5.68Miscellaneous Outstanding Shares272,900,000Free Float272,519,000Market Cap$40.87 billion OptionableOptionable Beta0.55 Social Links The Infrastructure's Backbone: 10 Stocks Powering the AI BuildoutThe AI boom extends far beyond the biggest tech names. 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