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$148.99 -0.66 (-0.44%)
As of 05/20/2025 03:59 PM Eastern

YUM vs. SBUX, CMG, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, CAKE, WEN, PZZA, and CBRL

Should you be buying Yum! Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yum! Brands include Starbucks (SBUX), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Brinker International (EAT), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Wendy's (WEN), Papa Johns International (PZZA), and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL). These companies are all part of the "restaurants" industry.

Yum! Brands vs.

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the better stock? We will compare the two companies based on the strength of their media sentiment, earnings, risk, valuation, profitability, institutional ownership, dividends, community ranking and analyst recommendations.

Yum! Brands has a beta of 0.77, suggesting that its share price is 23% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Starbucks has a beta of 0.99, suggesting that its share price is 1% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Starbucks received 1039 more outperform votes than Yum! Brands when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 76.18% of users gave Starbucks an outperform vote while only 64.33% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
Yum! BrandsOutperform Votes
1084
64.33%
Underperform Votes
601
35.67%
StarbucksOutperform Votes
2123
76.18%
Underperform Votes
664
23.82%

In the previous week, Starbucks had 42 more articles in the media than Yum! Brands. MarketBeat recorded 78 mentions for Starbucks and 36 mentions for Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.28 beat Starbucks' score of 0.55 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
Yum! Brands
19 Very Positive mention(s)
4 Positive mention(s)
5 Neutral mention(s)
0 Negative mention(s)
0 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive
Starbucks
32 Very Positive mention(s)
1 Positive mention(s)
28 Neutral mention(s)
12 Negative mention(s)
3 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 72.3% of Starbucks shares are held by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.1% of Starbucks shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Yum! Brands presently has a consensus target price of $156.70, indicating a potential upside of 5.17%. Starbucks has a consensus target price of $98.72, indicating a potential upside of 15.34%. Given Starbucks' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Starbucks is more favorable than Yum! Brands.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
Yum! Brands
0 Sell rating(s)
16 Hold rating(s)
6 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.27
Starbucks
2 Sell rating(s)
9 Hold rating(s)
16 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.52

Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Starbucks pays an annual dividend of $2.44 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. Yum! Brands pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Starbucks pays out 88.4% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Yum! Brands has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years and Starbucks has increased its dividend for 15 consecutive years. Starbucks is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.

Starbucks has higher revenue and earnings than Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Starbucks, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
Yum! Brands$7.74B5.35$1.49B$5.0229.68
Starbucks$36.35B2.68$3.76B$2.7631.01

Yum! Brands has a net margin of 19.68% compared to Starbucks' net margin of 9.73%. Yum! Brands' return on equity of -20.33% beat Starbucks' return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
Yum! Brands19.68% -20.33% 24.19%
Starbucks 9.73%-44.97%11.47%

Summary

Starbucks beats Yum! Brands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.

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YUM vs. The Competition

MetricYum! BrandsEating places IndustryRetail SectorNYSE Exchange
Market Cap$41.41B$9.02B$25.21B$19.70B
Dividend Yield1.93%3.77%169.73%3.84%
P/E Ratio28.5427.2124.7735.13
Price / Sales5.351.923.9834.12
Price / Cash24.2719.1719.4117.51
Price / Book-5.445.706.254.78
Net Income$1.49B$318.00M$781.36M$1.02B
7 Day Performance2.73%-1.31%0.77%1.62%
1 Month Performance5.91%8.89%13.88%13.00%
1 Year Performance6.95%-7.18%8.94%5.59%

Yum! Brands Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
YUM
Yum! Brands
4.1576 of 5 stars
$148.99
-0.4%
$156.70
+5.2%
+6.7%$41.41B$7.74B28.5436,000Trending News
Dividend Announcement
Analyst Revision
SBUX
Starbucks
4.7605 of 5 stars
$85.61
+6.6%
$98.72
+15.3%
+10.4%$97.28B$36.35B27.62402,000Trending News
CMG
Chipotle Mexican Grill
4.1766 of 5 stars
$50.54
+1.6%
$61.74
+22.2%
-19.0%$68.12B$11.49B45.54105,000Trending News
DRI
Darden Restaurants
4.3638 of 5 stars
$205.20
+3.4%
$201.38
-1.9%
+36.2%$24.01B$11.76B23.50179,000News Coverage
Positive News
DPZ
Domino's Pizza
2.7744 of 5 stars
$482.58
+0.8%
$498.50
+3.3%
-4.5%$16.54B$4.73B29.6611,000Positive News
TXRH
Texas Roadhouse
2.8117 of 5 stars
$189.30
+4.7%
$191.62
+1.2%
+13.6%$12.58B$5.50B29.2682,000Positive News
EAT
Brinker International
3.0928 of 5 stars
$144.75
+5.7%
$141.14
-2.5%
+132.3%$6.44B$5.13B25.1062,000Positive News
CAKE
Cheesecake Factory
3.7166 of 5 stars
$52.64
+5.0%
$53.60
+1.8%
+39.1%$2.61B$3.62B16.4547,500Trending News
Analyst Revision
Gap Up
WEN
Wendy's
4.901 of 5 stars
$12.28
+2.4%
$16.34
+33.0%
-32.3%$2.36B$2.24B12.9214,500
PZZA
Papa Johns International
4.0201 of 5 stars
$40.82
+6.7%
$51.25
+25.6%
-17.5%$1.34B$2.06B14.2312,000Gap Up
CBRL
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
3.3852 of 5 stars
$51.51
+11.0%
$57.13
+10.9%
+16.0%$1.14B$3.51B28.3773,000Positive News

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