Yum! Brands Stock Forecast, Price & News

16 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yum! Brands in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 7 hold ratings and 8 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" Yum! Brands stock. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in YUM, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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Yum! Brands saw a increase in short interest during the month of May. As of May 28th, there was short interest totaling 3,950,000 shares, an increase of 22.7% from the May 13th total of 3,220,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,530,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 2.6 days. Currently, 1.3% of the company's stock are sold short.
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Yum! Brands is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, July 29th 2021.
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Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, April, 27th. The restaurant operator reported $1.07 earnings per share for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.87 by $0.20. The restaurant operator had revenue of $1.49 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.45 billion. Yum! Brands had a net margin of 19.52% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 15.62%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 17.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period last year, the firm earned $0.64 EPS.
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Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $80.97 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, YUM shares have increased by 41.6% and is now trading at $114.64.
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Yum! Brands declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 10th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 28th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, June 11th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.74%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 27th.
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Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.71%. Yum! Brands does not yet have a strong track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Yum! Brands is 55.25%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Yum! Brands will have a dividend payout ratio of 43.48% next year. This indicates that Yum! Brands will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Yum! Brands announced that its board has initiated a stock buyback program on Monday, May 10th 2021, 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 5.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

16 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price objectives for Yum! Brands' shares. Their forecasts range from $94.00 to $135.00. On average, they anticipate Yum! Brands' share price to reach $118.65 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 3.5% from the stock's current price.
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3 employees have rated Yum! Brands CEO David Gibbs on Glassdoor.com. David Gibbs has an approval rating of 96% among Yum! Brands' employees. This puts David Gibbs in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 83.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Yum! Brands to a friend.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Yum! Brands investors own include Intel (INTC), The Walt Disney (DIS), McDonald's (MCD), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), AT&T (T), Visa (V), Costco Wholesale (COST), NVIDIA (NVDA) and Walmart (WMT).

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 Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (11.44%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (6.99%), BlackRock Inc. (5.98%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (2.48%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (2.14%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (1.58%). Company insiders that own Yum! Brands stock include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, Greg Creed, Scott Catlett and Tracy L Skeans.
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YUM stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Assenagon Asset Management S.A., AQR Capital Management LLC, Caisse DE Depot ET Placement DU Quebec, Nomura Holdings Inc., Capital Bank & Trust Co, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Putnam Investments LLC, and Man Group plc. Company insiders that have sold Yum! Brands company stock in the last year include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, and Tracy L Skeans.
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YUM stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Sustainable Growth Advisers LP, Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership, Schroder Investment Management Group, Janus Henderson Group PLC, Victory Capital Management Inc., and Royal Bank of Canada.
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One share of YUM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $114.64.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $34.15 billion and generates $5.65 billion in revenue each year. The restaurant operator earns $904 million in net income (profit) each year or $3.62 on an earnings per share basis.

Yum! Brands employs 15,000 workers across the globe.

The following companies are subsidiares of Yum! Brands: A&W Restaurants, ABR Insurance, ACN, Ashton Fried Chicken, Cyprus Caramel Restaurants, Finger Lickin' Chicken, GCTB, Gloucester Properties, HeartStyles, Inventure Restaurantes, KFC Advertising, KFC Asia, KFC Brasil, KFC Chamnord, KFC Corporation, KFC Europe, KFC France, KFC Global Holdings, KFC Holding, KFC Holdings, KFC Intermediate, KFC International Finance, KFC Italy, KFC Menapak, KFC Mexico, KFC Netherlands, KFC North America, KFC Pacific, KFC Pacific Holdings, KFC Real Estate, KFC Restaurants Asia, KFC Restaurants Spain, KFC Russia, KFC South Africa, KFC THC, KFC Turkey, KFC US, KFC YFI Holdco, KFC Yum! Franchise I, KFC Yum! Franchise III, Kentucky Fried Chicken (Germany), Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Limited, Kentucky Fried Chicken (Great Britain) Services Limited, Kentucky Fried Chicken Canada, Kentucky Fried Chicken International Holdings, Kentucky Fried Chicken Limited, Kentucky Fried Chicken Pty, Little Sheep, Long John Silver's, Multibranding, Newcastle Fried Chicken, Northside Fried Chicken, Novo BL, Novo Re IMMO, PH Asia, PH Canada, PH Digico, PH Europe, PH Global Holdings, PH Intermediate, PH International Finance, PH International Holdings I, PH International Holdings II, PH International Holdings III, PH Mexico, PH North America, PH Restaurant Holdings, PH South Africa Holdings, PH THC V, PH YFI Holdco, PH Yum! Franchise I, PH Yum! Franchise III, Pizza Hut (Pty), Pizza Hut Delivery Germany, Pizza Hut Europe, Pizza Hut Gida, Pizza Hut Guarantor, Pizza Hut HSR Advertising, Pizza Hut Holdings, Pizza Hut International, Pizza Hut Korea, Pizza Hut LLC, Pizza Hut MENAPAK, Pizza Hut Pacific Holdings, Pizza Hut Restaurants Asia, Pizza Hut Turkey, Pizza Hut of America, Restaurant Concepts, Restaurant Holdings, Southern Fast Foods, Suffolk Fast Foods, TB Asia, TB Canada, TB Cantina, TB Global Holdings, TB Intermediate Holdings, TB International Finance Company, Taco Bell Cantina, Taco Bell Corp, Taco Bell Franchise Holder 1, Taco Bell Franchisor, Taco Bell Franchisor Holdings, Taco Bell Funding, Taco Bell IP Holder, Taco Bell Restaurants Asia, Taco Bell of America, The Habit Burger Grill, Yum Restaurants International, and Yumsop.

Yum! Brands was founded in 1997.

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

Yum! Brands is headquartered at 1441 Gardiner Lane, Louisville KY, 40213.

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]