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

With almost 15,000 units and USD 12 billion in systemwide sales in 2023, Yum China is the largest restaurant operator in China. It generates revenue through its own restaurants and franchise fees. Key concepts include KFC (10,296 units) and Pizza Hut (3,312), 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 January 31, 2025, YUMC stock price declined to $46.25 with 1,588,891 million shares trading.

YUMC has a beta of 0.85, 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 $17.43 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.

Last quarter Yum China Holdings reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.77 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $21 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.10.

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, VWO.

YUMC has outperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +34.0% while the SPY ETF gained +24.0%. However, in the short term, YUMC had mixed performance relative to the market. It has underperformed in the last 3 months, returning +3.8% vs +4.1% return in SPY. But in the last 2 weeks, YUMC shares have fared better than the market returning +7.0% compared to SPY +1.7%.

YUMC support price is $46.59 and resistance is $48.59 (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.