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) Price to free cash flow

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As of 5 November 2026, Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) trades at a price to free cash flow of 27.9×. Over the past ten years it has ranged from 15.5× (March 2020) to 88.4× (October 2016); the current reading is higher than 39% of that period. That is above the Restaurants industry median of 17.9× and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 12.9×.

Price to free cash flow, daily

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Annual newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
FY2025 25.8× (2.53%)
FY2024 26.4× (3.96%)
FY2023 27.5× (13.03%)
FY2022 31.6× 13.20%
FY2021 27.9× (2.42%)
FY2020 28.6× 3.95%
FY2019 27.5× (12.33%)
FY2018 31.4× (20.99%)
FY2017 39.8× 40.36%
FY2016 28.3× 1.91%

Quarterly newest first

Period Price to free cash flow Change
Sep 2026 22.9× (12.46%)
Jun 2026 26.2× 0.13%
Mar 2026 26.1× 1.54%
Dec 2025 25.8× (4.69%)
43 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 15.5× High 88.4×
Ten-year median 28.8×
Current reading's percentile 39

Price to free cash flow against peers

Company Price to free cash flow
QSR Restaurant Brands International Inc. compare 16.6×
DPZ Domino's Pizza Inc compare 17.0×
YUMC Yum China compare 17.9×
DRI Darden Restaurants, Inc. compare 24.4×
MCD McDonald's Corporation compare 24.8×
YUM Yum! Brands, Inc. 27.9×
TXRH Texas Roadhouse, Inc. compare 28.8×
CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. compare 29.6×
SBUX Starbucks Corporation compare 32.5×
Restaurants industry median 17.9×
Consumer Cyclical sector median 12.9×
Market median 14.1×

What Price to free cash flow is

Price to Free Cash Flow Ratio shows how much investors pay for each dollar of cash a company generates after its capital spending.

Stock Price ÷ ((Operating Cash Flow (TTM) + Property, Plant, Equipment Change (Net) (TTM) + Intangible Assets Change (Net) (TTM)) ÷ (Shares (Basic, Weighted) (latest quarter)))

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