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) Operating margin

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Yum China's operating margin over the twelve months to 30 September 2026 was 11.3%, up 0.4 percentage points from fiscal 2025 (10.9%). Over the past ten years it has ranged from 6.57% (fiscal 2022) to 14.1% (fiscal 2021); the current reading is higher than 73% of that period. That is above the Restaurants industry median of 4.59% and above the Consumer Cyclical sector median of 3.88%.

Operating margin, annual

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Annual newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
FY2025 10.9% 0.65
FY2024 10.3% 0.21
FY2023 10.1% 3.50
FY2022 6.57% (7.50)
FY2021 14.1% 2.44
FY2020 11.6% 1.36
FY2019 10.3% (0.91)
FY2018 11.2% 1.17
FY2017 10.0% 0.53
FY2016 9.48% 2.42

Quarterly newest first

Period Operating margin Change (points)
Sep 2026 13.0% 1.88
Jun 2026 11.1% (2.58)
Mar 2026 13.7% 7.05
Dec 2025 6.62% (5.86)
37 more quarters

Against its own ten years

Low 6.57% High 14.1%
Ten-year median 10.3%
Current reading's percentile 82

Operating margin against peers

What Operating margin is

EBIT Margin tells an investor how much operating profit, before interest and taxes, a company keeps from each unit of revenue.

EBIT ÷ Revenue

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