Yum! Brands Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 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, 6 hold ratings and 8 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 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 data on Tuesday, April, 27th. The restaurant operator reported $1.07 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of $0.87 by $0.20. The restaurant operator earned $1.49 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.45 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 for the quarter was up 17.7% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the previous year, the business posted $0.64 earnings per share.
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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 44.7% and is now trading at $117.15.
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Yum! Brands declared a quarterly dividend on Monday, May 10th. Shareholders of record on Friday, May 28th will be paid a dividend of $0.50 per share on Friday, June 11th. This represents a $2.00 annualized dividend and a yield of 1.71%. The ex-dividend date 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 1.68%. 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 announced that its board has authorized a stock repurchase plan on Monday, May 10th 2021, which authorizes the company to buyback $2,000,000,000.00 in outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization authorizes the company to reacquire up to 5.7% of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback plans are typically an indication that the company's board believes its stock is undervalued.

15 Wall Street analysts have issued 1 year target prices for Yum! Brands' stock. Their forecasts range from $94.00 to $135.00. On average, they expect Yum! Brands' stock price to reach $118.50 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 1.2% 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 a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include BlackRock Inc. (5.98%), Sustainable Growth Advisers LP (2.48%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.58%), Northern Trust Corp (1.24%), Victory Capital Management Inc. (1.04%) and Swiss National Bank (0.50%). 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Newport Trust Co, WBI Investments, NS Partners Ltd, Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Panagora Asset Management Inc., and Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc.. 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 Sustainable Growth Advisers LP, Victory Capital Management Inc., Northern Trust Corp, PGGM Investments, Brinker Capital Investments LLC, Bristol John W & Co. Inc. NY, Tesco Pension Investment Ltd, and KBC Group NV.
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One share of YUM stock can currently be purchased for approximately $117.15.

Yum! Brands has a market capitalization of $34.90 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 38,000 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]