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Yum! Brands YUM Net margin

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0.8%-0.9pp

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$2.1B+15.2%
Gross profit$1.4B+9.1%
Operating income$644.0M+17.5%
Net income$432.0M+70.8%
EPS (diluted)$1.55+72.2%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$889.0M+13.7%
Total debt$3.1B+219%
Total equity-$7.3B+6.7%
Total assets$8.2B+23.3%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$416.0M+3.0%
CapEx$75.0M+5.6%
Free cash flow$341.0M+2.4%

Valuation

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Market cap$42.46B-2.1%
Enterprise value$44.65B+2.4%
P/E24.4×-6.0×
P/S-0.6×

Profitability

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Gross margin68.9%-2.2pp
Operating margin31.5%0.0pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity105.2%
Debt / equity45×
Current ratio0.7×-0.8×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Yum! Brands’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Yum! Brands’s 10-Q, filed May 6, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Yum! Brands's net margin?
Yum! Brands (YUM) reported net margin of 20.5% in Q1 2026.
How has Yum! Brands's net margin changed year-over-year?
Yum! Brands's net margin increased by 11.2% year-over-year, from 18.4% to 20.5%.
What is the long-term trend for Yum! Brands's net margin?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Yum! Brands's net margin has grown at a -4.7% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 89.2% to 73.5%.
What does net margin mean?
The share of every sales dollar that becomes bottom-line profit.
How do you interpret net margin?
Higher is better, but net margin mixes operating performance with financing and tax effects and one-off items — read it alongside operating margin to separate the operating story from the rest.
How does net margin compare across companies?
Comparable across peers but sensitive to leverage and tax structure; two operationally identical firms can show different net margins purely from financing.