YUM (YUM) Stock

About YUM

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

YUM stock trades at $152.10 with a market capitalization of $41.92B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 19.03, price-to-book of -5.94, price-to-sales of 4.82. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $137.33 and $170.14, and currently trades 10.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 1.97%.

On profitability, YUM 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 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).