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

Yum! Brands' stock was trading at $80.97 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, YUM shares have decreased by 18.4% and is now trading at $66.05. 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, April 29th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Yum! Brands.

Yum! Brands will be holding an earnings conference call on Wednesday, April 29th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) announced its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, February, 6th. The restaurant operator reported $1.00 earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Zacks' consensus estimate of $1.13 by $0.13. The restaurant operator earned $1.69 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate 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 quarterly revenue was up 8.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter last year, the business earned $0.40 EPS. View Yum! Brands' earnings history.

Yum! Brands declared a quarterly dividend on Friday, January 24th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.47 per share on Friday, March 6th. This represents a $1.88 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.85%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 13th. This is a positive change from Yum! Brands's previous quarterly dividend of $0.42. View Yum! Brands' dividend history.

Yum! Brands declared that its board has initiated a stock repurchase plan on Thursday, November 21st 2019, which authorizes the company to repurchase $2,000,000,000.00 in shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 6.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are usually an indication that the company's board of directors believes its shares are undervalued.

21 brokers have issued 1-year price objectives for Yum! Brands' stock. Their forecasts range from $80.00 to $138.00. On average, they anticipate Yum! Brands' stock price to reach $108.56 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 64.4% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Yum! Brands.

Press coverage about YUM stock has been trending very negative this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm scores the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Yum! Brands earned a daily sentiment score of -3.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned media coverage about the restaurant operator a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the near future. View the latest news aboutYum! Brands.

Yum! Brands saw a decline in short interest during 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 trading volume of 1,930,000 shares, the short-interest 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), Denny's (DENN) 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 shareholders include Cullinan Associates Inc. (0.02%), M&R Capital Management Inc. (0.00%), Thomasville National Bank (0.00%) and Cox Capital Mgt LLC (0.00%). 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 Cullinan Associates Inc., and M&R Capital Management Inc.. 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 purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Thomasville National Bank, and Cox Capital Mgt LLC. 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 $66.05.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $19.87 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]