Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.98M but it saw 1424938 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 38.92B USD, the company’s current market price of $138.33 came rising about 0.28 while comparing to the previous closing price of $137.95. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $143.24 and as low as $115.53.
Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) gives us an average price of $137.17, while its current price level is -3.43% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 19.74% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $135.86 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $130.41. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 1.62% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 1.44%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 54.42 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Wells Fargo downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal Weight” from “Overweight” on January 11, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $150-$135. Oppenheimer issued its recommendations for the stock as it upgraded the price target for the stock is $154.
Over the week, YUM’s stock price is moving 1.50% up while it is -1.71% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 5.87% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 5.14%.
The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company was for quarter ended 12/30/2023, when its quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of $1.26 beaten by the consensus estimate of $1.4 for the same. For YUM, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 11.80% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 12.50%. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $1.83 billion as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $7.77 billion and seeing the company making $8.29 billion in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $1.71 billion for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Yum Brands Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 281.00M with 0.15% of that held by the insiders while 86.36% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 39.52%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 24.73 while having a 21.29 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 1.09. Stock has a price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 5.50. Its return on asset (ROA) is 26.45% on average.
