Yum! Brands Stock Forecast, Price & News

17 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Yum! Brands in the last twelve months. There are currently 1 sell rating, 10 hold ratings and 6 buy ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street 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 decrease in short interest in the month of January. As of January 29th, there was short interest totaling 3,630,000 shares, a decrease of 25.9% from the January 14th total of 4,900,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 1,640,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 2.2 days. Approximately 1.2% of the shares of the company are short sold.
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Yum! Brands is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Wednesday, May 5th 2021.
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Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) released its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February, 3rd. The restaurant operator reported $1.15 earnings per share for the quarter, topping the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $1.01 by $0.14. The restaurant operator earned $1.74 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.72 billion. Yum! Brands had a net margin of 18.78% and a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 12.42%. Yum! Brands's revenue was up 2.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.00 EPS.
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Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $80.97 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus (COVID-19) reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, YUM shares have increased by 29.6% and is now trading at $104.93.
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Yum! Brands announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, February 1st. Shareholders of record on Friday, February 12th will be given a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, March 12th. This represents a $2.00 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.91%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Thursday, February 11th. This is an increase from Yum! Brands's previous quarterly dividend of $0.47.
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Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.00 per share and currently has a dividend yield of 1.92%. Yum! Brands does not yet have a strock track record of dividend growth. The dividend payout ratio of Yum! Brands is 56.34%. This payout ratio is at a healthy, sustainable level, below 75%. Based on earnings estimates, Yum! Brands will have a dividend payout ratio of 52.22% next year. This indicates that Yum! Brands will be able to sustain or increase its dividend.
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Yum! Brands declared that its board has authorized a share repurchase program on Thursday, November 21st 2019, which allows the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization allows the company to repurchase up to 6.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase programs are usually an indication that the company's board believes its shares are undervalued.

17 Wall Street analysts have issued twelve-month price targets for Yum! Brands' shares. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $125.00. On average, they expect Yum! Brands' stock price to reach $104.00 in the next year. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 0.9%.
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150 employees have rated Yum! Brands CEO Greg Creed on Glassdoor.com. Greg Creed has an approval rating of 95% among Yum! Brands' employees. This puts Greg Creed in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 85.0% 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 a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD (10.15%), BlackRock Inc. (5.93%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (5.62%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (1.24%), Northern Trust Corp (1.16%) and Victory Capital Management Inc. (0.92%). Company insiders that own Yum! Brands stock include Anthony Lowings, David Eric Russell, David W Gibbs, Greg Creed, Robert D Walter, 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 UBS Asset Management Americas Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, BlackRock Inc., Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc., Northern Trust Corp, Nuveen Asset Management LLC, and Newport Trust Co. 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 acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD, Norges Bank, Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Morgan Stanley, Skandinaviska Enskilda Banken AB publ, PGGM Investments, and Healthcare of Ontario Pension Plan Trust Fund.
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One share of YUM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $104.93.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $31.48 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 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]