Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) Stock

About Yum! Brands, Inc.

Yum! Brands, Inc. is led by CEO Christopher Lee Turner, employs 49,000 people, headquartered in Louisville, US, publicly traded since 1997.

Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) stock trades at $143.00 with a market capitalization of $39.41B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 17.43, price-to-book of -5.44, price-to-sales of 4.41. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $134.26 and $170.14, and currently trades 16.0% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.15%.

On profitability, Yum! Brands, Inc. generates a return on equity (ROE) of -30.35%, return on capital employed of 61.57%, an operating margin of 30.80%, a net profit margin of 25.42%.

In its most recent fiscal year, Yum! Brands, Inc. reported annual revenue of $8.2B, net profit of $1.6B, revenue has compounded at 7.8% a year over the last five years, profit at 11.5% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of -1.73 — a conservative balance sheet with little leverage risk, a current ratio of 1.35, total assets of $8.2B, $709.0M in cash and equivalents.

YUM has a beta of 0.55 (less volatile than the overall market).