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Yum China Holdings YUMC Free cash flow yield

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Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$3.3B+9.7%
Operating income$447.0M+12.0%
Net income$309.0M+5.8%
EPS (diluted)$0.87+13.0%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$473.0M-42.7%
Total debt$2.3B-2.3%
Total equity$5.4B-6.1%
Total assets$10.8B-1.5%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$550.0M+21.7%
CapEx$144.0M+5.1%
Free cash flow$406.0M+28.9%

Valuation

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Market cap$14.87B-12.2%
Enterprise value$16.72B-9.9%
P/E15.7×-2.8×
P/S1.2×-0.3×

Profitability

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Gross margin24.4%
Operating margin11.1%+0.6pp
Net margin7.8%-0.3pp
FCF margin8.3%+1.8pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity16.9%+1.1pp
Debt / equity0.4×0.0×
Current ratio-0.2×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Yum China Holdings’s reported figures.

Based on trailing twelve months.

The official record: Yum China Holdings’s 10-Q, filed November 10, 2025, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Yum China Holdings's free cash flow yield?
Yum China Holdings (YUMC) reported free cash flow yield of 6.1% in Q3 2025.
How has Yum China Holdings's free cash flow yield changed year-over-year?
Yum China Holdings's free cash flow yield increased by 47.1% year-over-year, from 4.2% to 6.1%.
What is the long-term trend for Yum China Holdings's free cash flow yield?
Over 2 years (2020 to 2024), Yum China Holdings's free cash flow yield has grown at a 17.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 2.9% to 4%.
What does free cash flow yield mean?
The spendable cash the business throws off each year as a percentage of its market price.
How do you interpret free cash flow yield?
Higher yield can mean better value — you pay less for each dollar of cash generated. A useful sanity check against earnings-based multiples, which non-cash items can distort.
How does free cash flow yield compare across companies?
Comparable across cash-generative companies; less meaningful for firms in heavy-investment phases with temporarily negative FCF.