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Yum! Brands, Inc.

YUM Consumer Cyclical Restaurants

Yum! Brands, Inc.’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $8.2 billion, up 8.81% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+3.79%
EPS
+320.2%
Free cash flow
−13.6%
Total debt
+0.40%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

161.59 4.50 −2.71%
Market cap
$45.3B
P/E
13.2×
Fwd P/E
16.7×
Dividend yield
1.79%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.55
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
66/100
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Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) Debt to equity

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s debt to equity at the end of the quarter to 30 September 2026 was −1.9×, down 0.3× from fiscal 2025 (−1.6×). Over the past ten years it has ranged from −1.6× (fiscal 2025) to 4.1× (fiscal 2015) — the current reading is the lowest in ten years. That is below the Restaurants industry median of 0.2× and below the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 0.2×.

Debt to equity, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
FY2025 −1.6× —
FY2024 −1.5× —
FY2023 −1.4× —
FY2022 −1.3× —
FY2021 −1.3× —
FY2020 −1.4× —
FY2019 −1.3× —
FY2018 −1.3× —
FY2017 −1.5× —
FY2016 −1.6× —

Quarterly newest first

Period Debt to equity Change
Sep 2026 −1.9× —
Jun 2026 −1.7× —
Mar 2026 −1.6× —
Dec 2025 −1.6× —
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low −1.6× High 4.1×
Ten-year median −1.4×
Current reading's percentile 9

Debt to equity against peers

Company Debt to equity
MCD McDonald's Corporation compare −39.0×
YUM Yum! Brands, Inc. −1.9×
SBUX Starbucks Corporation compare −1.7×
DPZ Domino's Pizza Inc compare −1.2×
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. compare 0.0×
TXRH Texas Roadhouse, Inc. compare 0.0×
YUMC Yum China compare 0.3×
DRI Darden Restaurants, Inc. compare 0.8×
QSR Restaurant Brands International Inc. compare 2.4×
Restaurants industry median 0.2×
Consumer Cyclical sector median 0.2×
Market median 0.1×

What Debt to equity is

Debt to Equity Ratio shows how much a company relies on borrowed money compared with the money its shareholders have in the business.

(Long Term Debt (Total) + Current Part of Debt) ÷ Shareholders Equity (Total)

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