YUM Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Yum Brands | NYSE:YUM)

Yum Brands is a U.S.-based restaurant operator featuring a portfolio of four brands: KFC (29,900 global units at year-end 2023), Pizza Hut (19,866 units), Taco Bell (8,564 units), and The Habit Burger Grill (381 units). With $64 billion in 2023 systemwide sales, the firm is the second-largest restaurant company in the world behind McDonald's ($130 billion), ahead of Restaurant Brands International and Starbucks ($29 billion). Yum is 98% franchised, with the largest franchisee, Yum China, spun out in 2016 (after which Yum China agreed to pay 3% royalties to Yum Brands in perpetuity). Yum is the newest evolution of Tricon, formerly a division of PepsiCo, and generates the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and marketing contributions.

Yum Brands trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol YUM.

As of April 25, 2024, YUM stock price declined to $141.29 with 352,471 million shares trading.

YUM has a beta of 0.67, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. YUM has a correlation of 0.24 to the broad based SPY ETF.

YUM has a market cap of $39.75 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Yum Brands reported $2 billion in Revenue and $1.26 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-74 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.15.

In the last 3 years, YUM stock traded as high as $143.25 and as low as $103.97.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that YUM belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, SPY, JEPI, VO.

YUM stock has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +3.5%, while SPY returned +23.0%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in YUM shares. However, YUM has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +9.7% and +2.4%, while SPY returned +3.5% and -2.6%, respectively. This indicates YUM has been having a stronger performance recently.

YUM support price is $140.24 and resistance is $143.39 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that YUM stock will trade within this expected range on the day.