NYSE:YUM - Yum! Brands Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $80.97 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, YUM stock has decreased by 15.4% and is now trading at $68.53. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yum! Brands in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 15 hold ratings and 5 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View analyst ratings for Yum! Brands.

Yum! Brands is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Yum! Brands.

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, February, 6th. The restaurant operator reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.13 by $0.13. The restaurant operator had revenue of $1.69 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.66 billion. Yum! Brands had a net margin of 23.12% and a negative return on equity of 13.90%. The company's revenue for the quarter was up 8.7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $0.40 earnings per share. View Yum! Brands' earnings history.

Yum! Brands announced a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 24th. Investors of record on Friday, February 14th will be given a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, March 6th. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 13th. This is a boost from Yum! Brands's previous quarterly dividend of $0.42. View Yum! Brands' dividend history.

Yum! Brands declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase program on Thursday, November 21st 2019, which permits the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to reacquire up to 6.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are typically a sign that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

21 Wall Street analysts have issued 12 month target prices for Yum! Brands' shares. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $138.00. On average, they expect Yum! Brands' stock price to reach $109.78 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 60.2% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Yum! Brands.

Press coverage about YUM stock has been trending positive this week, InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis reports. InfoTrie rates the sentiment of news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Yum! Brands earned a news impact score of 2.1 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent news coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutYum! Brands.

Yum! Brands saw a decline in short interest in the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 4,363,900 shares, a decline of 8.7% from the February 27th total of 4,780,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 1,930,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.3 days. Currently, 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Yum! Brands' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Yum! Brands include Mcdonald's (MCD), Starbucks (SBUX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Dunkin Brands Group (DNKN), Wendys (WEN), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Papa John's Int'l (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Dine Brands Global (DIN) and Brinker International (EAT).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Yum! Brands investors own include Walt Disney (DIS), Mcdonald's (MCD), Intel (INTC), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), AT&T (T), NVIDIA (NVDA), Visa (V), Home Depot (HD) and Boeing (BA).

Yum! Brands trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "YUM."

Yum! Brands' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Magellan Asset Management Ltd (6.76%), State Street Corp (4.75%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (2.49%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (1.76%), UBS Asset Management Americas Inc. (1.48%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.47%). Company insiders that own Yum! Brands stock include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, Greg Creed, Robert D Walter, Roger G Eaton, Scott Catlett, Tanya L Domier and Tracy L Skeans. View institutional ownership trends for Yum! Brands.

YUM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including FMR LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Teacher Retirement System of Texas, CIBC World Markets Inc., Janus Henderson Group PLC, Bank of New York Mellon Corp, TD Asset Management Inc., and DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale. Company insiders that have sold Yum! Brands company stock in the last year include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, Greg Creed, Robert D Walter, Scott Catlett, and Tracy L Skeans. View insider buying and selling activity for Yum! Brands.

YUM stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Norges Bank, Sustainable Growth Advisers LP, Victory Capital Management Inc., Victory Capital Management Inc., Capital International Investors, UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., and Loomis Sayles & Co. L P. View insider buying and selling activity for Yum! Brands.

Shares of YUM can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.

One share of YUM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $68.53.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $20.62 billion and generates $5.60 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $1.29 billion in net income (profit) each year or $3.55 on an earnings per share basis. Yum! Brands employs 34,000 workers across the globe. View additional information about Yum! Brands.

The official website for Yum! Brands is http://www.yum.com/.

Yum! Brands' mailing address is 1441 Gardiner Lane, Louisville KY, 40213. The restaurant operator can be reached via phone at 502-874-8300 or via email at [email protected]