Yum! Brands (YUM) Competitors $148.99 -0.66 (-0.44%) As of 05/20/2025 03:59 PM Eastern Add Compare Share Share Competitors Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsDividendEarningsFinancialsHeadlinesInsider TradesOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort InterestSustainabilityTrendsBuy This Stock YUM vs. SBUX, CMG, DRI, DPZ, TXRH, EAT, CAKE, WEN, PZZA, and CBRLShould 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. Starbucks Chipotle Mexican Grill Darden Restaurants Domino's Pizza Texas Roadhouse Brinker International Cheesecake Factory Wendy's Papa Johns International Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 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. Which has more volatility & risk, YUM or SBUX? 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. Does the MarketBeat Community prefer YUM or SBUX? 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. CompanyUnderperformOutperformYum! BrandsOutperform Votes108464.33% Underperform Votes60135.67% StarbucksOutperform Votes212376.18% Underperform Votes66423.82% Does the media refer more to YUM or SBUX? 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 Do institutionals & insiders have more ownership in YUM or SBUX? 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. Do analysts rate YUM or SBUX? 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) 2.27Starbucks 2 Sell rating(s) 9 Hold rating(s) 16 Buy rating(s) 0 Strong Buy rating(s) 2.52 Is YUM or SBUX a better dividend stock? 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. Which has higher earnings and valuation, YUM or SBUX? 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 RatioYum! Brands$7.74B5.35$1.49B$5.0229.68Starbucks$36.35B2.68$3.76B$2.7631.01 Is YUM or SBUX more profitable? 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% SummaryStarbucks beats Yum! Brands on 11 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks. Get Yum! Brands News Delivered to You Automatically Sign up to receive the latest news and ratings for YUM and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. Email Address New MarketBeat Followers Over TimeWhat are MarkeBeat Followers?This chart shows the number of new MarketBeat users adding {thisCompany.Symbol} and its top 5 competitors to their watchlist. Each company is represented with a line over a 90 day period. Skip ChartMedia Sentiment Over TimeWhat is Media Sentiment?This chart shows the average media sentiment of NYSE and its competitors over the past 90 days as caculated by MarketBeat. The averaged score is equivalent to the following: Very Negative Sentiment <= -1.5, Negative Sentiment > -1.5 and <= -0.5, Neutral Sentiment > -0.5 and < 0.5, Positive Sentiment >= 0.5 and < 1.5, and Very Positive Sentiment >= 1.5.Skip Chart YUM vs. The Competition Export to ExcelMetricYum! BrandsEating places IndustryRetail SectorNYSE ExchangeMarket Cap$41.41B$9.02B$25.21B$19.70BDividend Yield1.93%3.77%169.73%3.84%P/E Ratio28.5427.2124.7735.13Price / Sales5.351.923.9834.12Price / Cash24.2719.1719.4117.51Price / Book-5.445.706.254.78Net Income$1.49B$318.00M$781.36M$1.02B7 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 Export to ExcelCompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)YUMYum! Brands4.1576 of 5 stars$148.99-0.4%$156.70+5.2%+6.7%$41.41B$7.74B28.5436,000Trending NewsDividend AnnouncementAnalyst RevisionSBUXStarbucks4.7605 of 5 stars$85.61+6.6%$98.72+15.3%+10.4%$97.28B$36.35B27.62402,000Trending NewsCMGChipotle Mexican Grill4.1766 of 5 stars$50.54+1.6%$61.74+22.2%-19.0%$68.12B$11.49B45.54105,000Trending NewsDRIDarden Restaurants4.3638 of 5 stars$205.20+3.4%$201.38-1.9%+36.2%$24.01B$11.76B23.50179,000News CoveragePositive NewsDPZDomino's Pizza2.7744 of 5 stars$482.58+0.8%$498.50+3.3%-4.5%$16.54B$4.73B29.6611,000Positive NewsTXRHTexas Roadhouse2.8117 of 5 stars$189.30+4.7%$191.62+1.2%+13.6%$12.58B$5.50B29.2682,000Positive NewsEATBrinker International3.0928 of 5 stars$144.75+5.7%$141.14-2.5%+132.3%$6.44B$5.13B25.1062,000Positive NewsCAKECheesecake Factory3.7166 of 5 stars$52.64+5.0%$53.60+1.8%+39.1%$2.61B$3.62B16.4547,500Trending NewsAnalyst RevisionGap UpWENWendy's4.901 of 5 stars$12.28+2.4%$16.34+33.0%-32.3%$2.36B$2.24B12.9214,500PZZAPapa Johns International4.0201 of 5 stars$40.82+6.7%$51.25+25.6%-17.5%$1.34B$2.06B14.2312,000Gap UpCBRLCracker Barrel Old Country Store3.3852 of 5 stars$51.51+11.0%$57.13+10.9%+16.0%$1.14B$3.51B28.3773,000Positive News Related Companies and Tools Related Companies SBUX Competitors CMG Competitors DRI Competitors DPZ Competitors TXRH Competitors EAT Competitors CAKE Competitors WEN Competitors PZZA Competitors CBRL Competitors Top 10 Stock Comparisons Semiconductor Stocks Artificial Intelligence Stocks Growth Stocks Magnificent Seven Stocks Pharmaceutical Stocks Ecommerce Stocks Bitcoin Stocks Meme Stocks Cryptocurrency Stocks Cybersecurity Stocks This page (NYSE:YUM) was last updated on 5/21/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff From Our PartnersMarket Panic: Trump Just Dropped a Bomb on Your Stockstock Market Panic: Trump Just Dropped a Bomb on Your Stocks The market is in freefall—and Trump's new tarif...American Alternative | SponsoredGold Hits New Highs as Global Markets SpiralWhen Trump took office in 2017, gold was just $1,100 an ounce. 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