Last month’s performance of 3.27% for Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) is certainly impressive

Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) kicked off on Monday, up 1.00% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $141.77. Over the past 52 weeks, YUM has traded in a range of $115.53-$143.24.

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Annual sales at Consumer Cyclical sector company grew by 4.64% over the past five years. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 11.67%. With a float of $280.89 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $281.00 million.

Let’s look at the performance matrix of the company that is accounted for 35000 employees.

Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) Insider and Institutional Ownership

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Restaurants Industry. The insider ownership of Yum Brands Inc. is 0.16%, while institutional ownership is 85.84%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Apr 15 ’24, was worth 979,383. In this transaction Chief Executive Officer of this company sold 7,078 shares at a rate of $138.37, taking the stock ownership to the 172,128 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 15 ’24, when Company’s Chief Executive Officer sold 7,067 for $136.34, making the entire transaction worth $963,515. This insider now owns 175,377 shares in total.

Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) Latest Financial update

In the latest quarterly report, which was put into the public domain on 12/31/2023, the organization reported 1.06 earnings per share (EPS), lower than consensus estimate (set at 1.13) by -0.07. Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 1.37 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 11.67% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 12.97% during the next five years compared to 3.62% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Yum Brands Inc.’s (YUM) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 1.26. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.69. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 30.57.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 5.59, a number that is poised to hit 1.20 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 6.49 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Yum Brands Inc. (YUM)

Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) saw its 5-day average volume 2.01 million, a positive change from its year-to-date volume of 1.94 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 90.50%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.94.

During the past 100 days, Yum Brands Inc.’s (YUM) raw stochastic average was set at 99.95%, which indicates a significant increase from 99.88% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 6.84% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 14.16% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $138.07, while its 200-day Moving Average is $130.65. Nevertheless, the first resistance level for the watch stands at $143.91 in the near term. At $144.62, the stock is likely to face the second major resistance level. The third major resistance level sits at $146.05. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $141.77, it is likely to go to the next support level at $140.34. The third support level lies at $139.63 if the price breaches the second support level.

Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 40.29 billion has total of 281,500K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 7,076 M in contrast with the sum of 1,597 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 2,036 M and last quarter income was 463,000 K.