Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM – Get Free Report) has been assigned a consensus rating of “Hold” from the fourteen brokerages that are covering the company, Marketbeat reports. Eight analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and six have issued a buy rating on the company. The average 1 year price target among analysts that have updated their coverage on the stock in the last year is $144.75.
A number of research analysts recently weighed in on the company. Oppenheimer raised Yum! Brands from a “market perform” rating to an “outperform” rating and set a $154.00 price objective on the stock in a report on Friday, January 5th. JPMorgan Chase & Co. upped their price target on Yum! Brands from $130.00 to $133.00 and gave the stock a “neutral” rating in a report on Friday, February 9th. Wells Fargo & Company lowered shares of Yum! Brands from an “overweight” rating to an “equal weight” rating and lowered their price target for the company from $150.00 to $135.00 in a research report on Thursday, January 11th. Stifel Nicolaus reiterated a “hold” rating and issued a $135.00 price target on shares of Yum! Brands in a research report on Thursday, January 4th. Finally, Royal Bank of Canada decreased their price target on shares of Yum! Brands from $145.00 to $141.00 and set a “sector perform” rating on the stock in a research note on Friday, February 9th.
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Insider Buying and Selling at Yum! Brands
Hedge Funds Weigh In On Yum! Brands
Several institutional investors and hedge funds have recently modified their holdings of the stock. LCM Capital Management Inc boosted its position in Yum! Brands by 1.0% during the second quarter. LCM Capital Management Inc now owns 7,486 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock worth $1,037,000 after purchasing an additional 76 shares during the period. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. boosted its stake in Yum! Brands by 0.3% during the 4th quarter. Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management Co. now owns 22,079 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $2,828,000 after purchasing an additional 77 shares during the period. Buckingham Strategic Wealth LLC boosted its stake in Yum! Brands by 0.8% during the 2nd quarter. Buckingham Strategic Wealth LLC now owns 9,927 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $1,375,000 after purchasing an additional 78 shares during the period. Global Retirement Partners LLC boosted its stake in Yum! Brands by 14.1% during the 4th quarter. Global Retirement Partners LLC now owns 631 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $82,000 after purchasing an additional 78 shares during the period. Finally, Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC boosted its stake in Yum! Brands by 3.1% during the 4th quarter. Moneta Group Investment Advisors LLC now owns 2,567 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $335,000 after purchasing an additional 78 shares during the period. 80.17% of the stock is currently owned by hedge funds and other institutional investors.
Yum! Brands Stock Performance
NYSE YUM opened at $139.56 on Monday. The firm has a market cap of $39.26 billion, a PE ratio of 24.97, a P/E/G ratio of 2.19 and a beta of 1.10. Yum! Brands has a one year low of $115.53 and a one year high of $143.24. The firm’s fifty day moving average is $131.99 and its two-hundred day moving average is $127.89.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM – Get Free Report) last announced its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, February 7th. The restaurant operator reported $1.26 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of $1.39 by ($0.13). The firm had revenue of $2.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.11 billion. Yum! Brands had a net margin of 22.57% and a negative return on equity of 17.76%. The business’s quarterly revenue was up .8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm posted $1.31 earnings per share. Research analysts predict that Yum! Brands will post 5.73 earnings per share for the current year.
Yum! Brands Increases Dividend
The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 8th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 21st will be given a dividend of $0.67 per share. This is a positive change from Yum! Brands’s previous quarterly dividend of $0.61. This represents a $2.68 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 1.92%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 20th. Yum! Brands’s dividend payout ratio is currently 47.94%.
About Yum! Brands
Yum! Brands, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises quick service restaurants worldwide. The company operates through four segments: the KFC Division, the Taco Bell Division, the Pizza Hut Division, and the Habit Burger Grill Division. It operates restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill brands, which specialize in chicken, pizza, made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches, Mexican-style food categories, and other food products.
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