5-Jun-2026
Yum China Awards Equity Retainers to Non-Employee Directors Under 2022 LTIP
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Yum China Reports First Quarter 2026 Results
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Yum China to Report First Quarter 2026 Financial Results
PRNewswire (Wed, 15-Apr 5:00 AM ET)
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PRNewswire (Wed, 8-Apr 9:00 AM ET)
Could YUMC shares go up before upcoming earnings? Here's what history can tell us
Market Chameleon (Mon, 3-Feb 8:04 AM ET)
Yum China is the largest restaurant operator in China, with over 18,000 locations and USD 12 billion in systemwide sales as of 2025. It generates revenue mainly from its own restaurants and franchise fees. While KFC and Pizza Hut are its flagship brands, Yum China's portfolio also includes Little Sheep, Taco Bell, Huang Ji Huang, and Lavazza. As a trademark licensee of Yum Brands, Yum China pays 3% of KFC and Pizza Hut's systemwide sales to its former parent, from which it spun off in 2016. However, even before the separation, Yum China was granted substantial autonomy, giving its Chinese leadership decision-making authority over menu, supply chain, and marketing-an unusual practice for Western chains at the time.
Yum China Holdings trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol YUMC.
As of June 5, 2026, YUMC stock price climbed to $42.88 with 1,671,305 million shares trading.
YUMC has a beta of -0.03, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. YUMC has a correlation of 0.00 to the broad based SPY ETF.
YUMC has a market cap of $15.06 billion. This is considered a Large Cap stock.
Last quarter Yum China Holdings reported $3 billion in Revenue and $.87 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $41 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.01.
In the last 3 years, YUMC traded as high as $61.99 and as low as $28.50.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that YUMC belongs to (by Net Assets): VXUS, JGLO, AVEM, VWO, SPEM.
YUMC has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of +2.2% while the SPY ETF gained +25.6%. YUMC has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -17.6% and -3.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +8.5% and -1.1%, respectively.
YUMC support price is $42.17 and resistance is $43.53 (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.