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

165.68 0.63 −0.38%
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

Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) Net margin

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s net margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 39.1%, up 20.2 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (19.0%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 16.0% (fiscal 2020) to 27.1% (fiscal 2018); the current reading is higher than 18% of that period. That is above the Restaurants industry median of 1.83% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 2.12%.

Net margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
FY2025 19.0% (0.70)
FY2024 19.7% (2.89)
FY2023 22.6% 3.20
FY2022 19.4% (4.55)
FY2021 23.9% 7.93
FY2020 16.0% (7.13)
FY2019 23.1% (3.99)
FY2018 27.1% 4.31
FY2017 22.8% (3.05)
FY2016 25.9% 5.86

Quarterly newest first

Period Net margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 79.0% 39.69
Jun 2026 39.3% 18.35
Mar 2026 21.0% (0.29)
Dec 2025 21.3% 1.21
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 16.0% High 27.1%
Ten-year median 22.6%
Current reading's percentile 100

Net margin against peers

What Net margin is

Net Profit Margin tells an investor how much of each unit of revenue ends up as profit for shareholders after all costs, interest and taxes.

Net Income Allotted to Shareholders ÷ Revenue

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