YUM vs. CAKE, PZZA, WEN, ARCO, CMG, MCD, QSR, YUMC, SBUX, and DRI
Should you be buying Yum! Brands stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yum! Brands include Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa John's International (PZZA), Wendy's (WEN), Arcos Dorados (ARCO), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), McDonald's (MCD), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Yum China (YUMC), Starbucks (SBUX), and Darden Restaurants (DRI). These companies are all part of the "retail - restrnts" industry.
Yum! Brands vs. Its Competitors
Cheesecake Factory (NASDAQ:CAKE) and Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) are both retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their media sentiment, institutional ownership, valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, earnings, profitability and risk.
Cheesecake Factory pays an annual dividend of $1.08 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.7%. Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.84 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.9%. Cheesecake Factory pays out 33.9% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum! Brands pays out 56.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Yum! Brands has increased its dividend for 8 consecutive years. Yum! Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
In the previous week, Cheesecake Factory had 4 more articles in the media than Yum! Brands. MarketBeat recorded 21 mentions for Cheesecake Factory and 17 mentions for Yum! Brands. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 1.09 beat Cheesecake Factory's score of 0.40 indicating that Yum! Brands is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Cheesecake Factory currently has a consensus target price of $55.44, indicating a potential downside of 14.41%. Yum! Brands has a consensus target price of $157.86, indicating a potential upside of 5.37%. Given Yum! Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Yum! Brands is more favorable than Cheesecake Factory.
94.5% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are held by institutional investors. 8.4% of Cheesecake Factory shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum! Brands 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 has higher revenue and earnings than Cheesecake Factory. Cheesecake Factory is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Cheesecake Factory has a beta of 1.16, indicating that its stock price is 16% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum! Brands has a beta of 0.74, indicating that its stock price is 26% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 18.42% compared to Cheesecake Factory's net margin of 4.33%. Cheesecake Factory's return on equity of 46.06% beat Yum! Brands' return on equity.
Summary
Yum! Brands beats Cheesecake Factory on 13 of the 19 factors compared between the two stocks.
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This page (NYSE:YUM) was last updated on 7/12/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff