NYSE:YUMYum! Brands Stock Price, Forecast & News

Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $80.97 on March 11th, 2020 when COVID-19 (Coronavirus) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Since then, YUM shares have increased by 17.3% and is now trading at $94.99. View which stocks have been most impacted by Coronavirus.

24 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yum! Brands in the last year. There are currently 1 sell rating, 16 hold ratings and 7 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 Thursday, August 6th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Yum! Brands.

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, April, 29th. The restaurant operator reported $0.64 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing analysts' consensus estimates of $0.65 by $0.01. The restaurant operator had revenue of $1.26 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.21 billion. Yum! Brands had a negative return on equity of 12.97% and a net margin of 19.89%. The business's quarterly revenue was up .7% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $0.82 earnings per share. View Yum! Brands' earnings history.

Yum! Brands announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, May 14th. Stockholders of record on Friday, May 29th will be given a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, June 12th. This represents a $1.88 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.98%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, May 28th. View Yum! Brands' dividend history.

Yum! Brands announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, November 21st 2019, which allows the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to reacquire up to 6.7% of its shares through open market purchases. Shares repurchase plans are usually a sign that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

24 brokerages have issued 12 month price targets for Yum! Brands' stock. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $138.00. On average, they expect Yum! Brands' share price to reach $100.71 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 6.0% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Yum! Brands.

Media coverage about YUM stock has been trending very positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive news coverage by analyzing more than six thousand news and blog sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Yum! Brands earned a news impact score of 3.4 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media stories 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 near term. View the latest news aboutYum! Brands.

Yum! Brands saw a drop in short interest in May. As of May 15th, there was short interest totaling 3,860,000 shares, a drop of 14.6% from the April 30th total of 4,520,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,960,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 1.3 days. Currently, 1.3% of the shares of the stock are short sold. 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), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN) and Dine Brands Global (DIN). View all competitors.

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

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

Yum! Brands' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Magellan Asset Management Ltd (5.92%), State Street Corp (4.67%), Loomis Sayles & Co. L P (2.33%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (1.81%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.45%) and Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.30%). 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 Magellan Asset Management Ltd, APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., APG Asset Management N.V., Wells Fargo & Company MN, Loomis Sayles & Co. L P, Janus Henderson Group PLC, and State Street Corp. Company insiders that have sold Yum! Brands company stock in the last year include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, Greg Creed, Scott Catlett, and Tracy L Skeans. View insider buying and selling activity for Yum! Brands.

YUM stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Melvin Capital Management LP, Victory Capital Management Inc., Ardevora Asset Management LLP, First Trust Advisors LP, Deutsche Bank AG, Squarepoint Ops LLC, Swiss National Bank, and Two Sigma Advisers LP. 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 $94.99.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $28.59 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.

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

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