YUMC Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Yum China Holdings | NYSE:YUMC)

With more than 16,000 units and almost USD 12 billion in systemwide sales in 2024, Yum China is the largest restaurant operator in China. It generates revenue through its own restaurants and franchise fees. Key concepts include KFC (11,648 units) and Pizza Hut (3,724), but the company's portfolio also includes other brands such as Little Sheep, Taco Bell, Huang Ji Huang, and Lavazza (collectively representing more than 1,000 units). Yum China is a trademark licensee of Yum Brands, paying 3% of total systemwide sales to the company it separated from in October 2016.

Yum China Holdings trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol YUMC.

As of March 3, 2025, YUMC stock price declined to $49.02 with 3,380,087 million shares trading.

YUMC has a beta of 0.77, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. YUMC has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.

YUMC has a market cap of $18.45 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Yum China Holdings reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.30 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-35 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.

In the last 3 years, YUMC traded as high as $64.70 and as low as $28.50.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that YUMC belongs to (by Net Assets): IEMG, VXUS, MCHI, EEM, AVEM.

YUMC has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +13.9%, while SPY returned +16.7%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in YUMC shares. However, YUMC has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +4.8% and -0.3%, while SPY returned -2.2% and -4.3%, respectively. This indicates YUMC has been having a stronger performance recently.

YUMC support price is $48.27 and resistance is $50.55 (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 YUMC shares will trade within this expected range on the day.