Should Investors Trust The Upside Potential In Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC)?

Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 2.84M but it saw 4665990 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 16.81B USD, the company’s current market price of $44.82 came falling about -2.90 while comparing to the previous closing price of $46.16. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $53.99 and as low as $28.50. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $44.05 while lowest mark touched by it was $46.58.

Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) gives us an average price of $50.81, while its current price level is -16.98% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 57.26% 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 $49.28 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $42.78. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 7.52% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 3.71%. 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 35.43 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.

JP Morgan upgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Overweight” from “Neutral” on November 06, 2024 while assigning a price target range of $35.50-$60.

Over the week, YUMC’s stock price is moving -14.84% down while it is -9.14% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is -6.95% down and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 14.51%.

The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-05, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 0.79 while estimate for next year EPS is 2.55. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $2.87B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $11.94B and seeing the company making $12.77B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $3.13B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, Yum China Holdings Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 378.00M with 0.35% of that held by the insiders while 90.80% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 12.00% and return on equity (ROE) at 15.02%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 19.26 while having a 15.43 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.27. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 2.96 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 1.49. Its return on asset (ROA) is 7.87% on average.