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
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Yum China (YUMC) valuation and DCF model
At $49.68 the price implies free cash flow after share-based pay growing 5.2% a year for ten years.
Free cash flow after share-based pay grew 7.0% a year over the last ten years, 8.5% over the last five. The price asks for close to its ten-year rate. The industry’s median company is priced for 11.6%.
In December 2017 the price assumed 0.0% a year; Yum China went on to grow free cash flow after share-based pay 7.6% a year to FY2025.
- The price needs
- 5.2% a year for ten years
- $49.68
- today’s price
- Its base case
- 7.0% a year for five years, then 4.2%
- $51.76
- 4.2% above today’s price
Base case on its own ten-year record Yum China’s own growth, carried forward
Its assumptions
Powerpack lets you start from a scenario and type over any of them.
How we got there$7.89b 10 years of cash to equity+$10.38b terminal value+$71.00m net cash=$18.34b equity value÷354.25m shares=$51.76 per share
Valuation against its own history
| Multiple | Current | 5Y avg | 10Y avg | vs 10Y avg | Industry median | vs industry | 10Y range |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P/E | 17.19× | 26.36× | 26.39× | 35% below | 26.18× | 34% below | |
| P/FCF | 17.92× | 24.11× | 27.28× | 34% below | 17.92× | 0% above | |
| P/B | 2.79× | 2.88× | 3.61× | 23% below | 2.06× | 36% above | |
| EV/EBITDA | 8.88× | 11.04× | 11.08× | 20% below | 12.81× | 31% below | |
| EV/Sales | 1.33× | 1.55× | 1.69× | 21% below | 1.29× | 3% above |
YUMC trades at 8.88× EV/EBITDA, against a 10-year average of 11.08× (range 8.31×–16.77×). That is cheaper than 89% of the last 9 year-end readings; re-rating to the average implies $61.93 per share.