Yum China

YUMC Consumer Cyclical Restaurants

Yum China’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $11.8 billion, up 4.37% from fiscal 2024.

Revenue
+8.45%
EPS
+19.7%
Free cash flow
+2.28%
Total debt
+1,946.2%

Quarter to September 2026, against a year earlier

49.68 0.00 0.00%
Market cap
$17.0B
P/E
17.2×
Fwd P/E
15.5×
Dividend yield
2.23%
F-score
7/9
Altman Z
3.99
Beneish M
−2.51
Dividend safety
74/100

Yum China (YUMC) Gross margin

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Yum China's gross margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 0.00%, down 21.7 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (21.7%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 14.2% (fiscal 2015) to 25.1% (fiscal 2017); the current reading is higher than 64% of that period. That is below the Restaurants industry median of 38.9% and below the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 34.3%.

Gross margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
FY2025 21.7% 1.09
FY2024 20.6% (0.12)
FY2023 20.7% 2.56
FY2022 18.2% (3.33)
FY2021 21.5% (2.27)
FY2020 23.8% (0.34)
FY2019 24.1% 0.58
FY2018 23.5% (1.52)
FY2017 25.1% 8.15
FY2016 16.9% 2.75

Quarterly newest first

Period Gross margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 0.00% (22.21)
Jun 2026 22.2% (1.54)
Mar 2026 23.8% 4.69
Dec 2025 19.1% (3.62)
37 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 14.2% High 25.1%
Ten-year median 21.5%
Current reading's percentile 64

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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