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Yum! Brands YUM Price / earnings

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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$41.89B-2.1%
Enterprise value$44.08B+2.4%
P/S4.9×-0.6×

Profitability

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Gross margin68.9%-2.2pp
Operating margin31.5%0.0pp
Net margin20.5%+2.1pp

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 the most recent quarter.

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 price / earnings?
Yum! Brands (YUM) reported price / earnings of 24.7× in Q1 2026.
How has Yum! Brands's price / earnings changed year-over-year?
Yum! Brands's price / earnings decreased by 19.8% year-over-year, from 30.8× to 24.7×.
What is the long-term trend for Yum! Brands's price / earnings?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Yum! Brands's price / earnings has grown at a 3.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 101.5× to 114.6×.
What does price / earnings mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
How do you interpret price / earnings?
Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
How does price / earnings compare across companies?
Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.