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Yum! Brands YUM Return on assets

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8.7%+0.4pp

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/E24.1×-5.9×
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
FCF margin19.4%+0.7pp

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 return on assets?
Yum! Brands (YUM) reported return on assets of 23.4% in Q1 2026.
How has Yum! Brands's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Yum! Brands's return on assets increased by 5.7% year-over-year, from 22.1% to 23.4%.
What is the long-term trend for Yum! Brands's return on assets?
Over 5 years (2020 to 2025), Yum! Brands's return on assets has grown at a 5.1% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 16.3% to 20.9%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.