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. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 12.2%, EPS grew 131.3%, free cash flow grew 8.53% and total debt rose 7.78%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Member of the S&P 500; dividend growth for five consecutive years, revenue growth for five, operating cash flow growth for three.

150.18 0.65 −0.43%
Market cap
$41.2B
P/E
18.8×
Fwd P/E
22.3×
Dividend yield
1.97%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
2.55
Beneish M
−2.57
Dividend safety
66/100

Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) Gross margin

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s gross margin over the twelve months to 30 June 2026 was 68.1%, down 1.6 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (69.8%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 45.1% (fiscal 2016) to 77.9% (fiscal 2019); the current reading is higher than 36% of that period. That is above the Restaurants industry median of 38.8% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 35.0%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 69.8% (2.15)
FY2024 71.9% (3.01)
FY2023 74.9% 0.43
FY2022 74.5% 0.70
FY2021 73.8% 0.45
FY2020 73.4% (4.58)
FY2019 77.9% 6.66
FY2018 71.3% 21.53
FY2017 49.7% 4.63
FY2016 45.1% (15.91)

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Jun 2026 67.7% 0.61
Mar 2026 67.1% (0.43)
Dec 2025 67.6% (2.79)
Sep 2025 70.3% (0.69)
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Against its own ten years

Low 45.1% High 77.9%
Ten-year median 71.9%
Current reading's percentile 29

Gross margin against peers

What Gross margin is

Gross Margin tells an investor how much of each sale a company keeps after paying the direct costs of making or buying what it sells.

Gross Profit ÷ Revenue

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