Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM)

YUM · Consumer Discretionary · United States United States

Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) is a US company in the Consumer Discretionary sector. The stock has its largest weight in XUCC (MSCI USA Consumer Discretionary), at 0.89%. Anyone who holds an ETF containing Yum! Brands also has an indirect stake in the company.

Data and Charts: Yum! Brands

Key Data for Yum! Brands

Held in21 ETFs
Highest weight0.89%
Indices10
SectorConsumer Discretionary
CountryUnited States
ISINUS9884981013
WKN909190

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Yum! Brands Stock Price Chart

The Yum! Brands chart shows daily closing prices and is set to the current year by default. The stock is up 2.7% year to date and up 11.8% over twelve months. The last recorded close on October 30, 2026, was $155.40, at 61% of the 52-week range.

Price series from our database since Aug 12, 2024, 558 daily values.

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Yum! Brands Stock Performance

Yum! Brands stock performance
Year to date+2.7%1 year+11.8%
1 month+14.0%3 months+1.4%
Calendar year 2025+12.8%
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Measured in euros, Yum! Brands is up 8.0% year to date and up 15.5% over twelve months. The difference from the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone. Each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for that day.

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Alysly Data Analysis: Yum! Brands

What ETF Is Yum! Brands In?

Yum! Brands has above-average ETF coverage and is held by 21 of the 104 ETFs we track, which together follow 10 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 83.5% of the 4,341 stocks we track.

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What ETF is Yum! Brands in
ETFIndexWeightper €1,000 in the ETF
XUCC / XUCDMSCI USA Consumer Discretionary0.89%€8.91
XDWCMSCI World Consumer Discretionary0.54%€5.43
WCODMSCI World Consumer Discretionary0.54%€5.42
XDEBMSCI World Minimum Volatility0.51%€5.10
XDEWS&P 500 Equal Weight0.21%€2.07
SPYL / SPY5S&P 5000.07%€0.65
XD9U / XD9DMSCI USA0.06%€0.64
SXR8S&P 5000.06%€0.60
SPYI / SPSAMSCI ACWI IMI0.06%€0.58
SWWDMSCI World0.05%€0.50
SPPWMSCI World0.05%€0.50
EUNLMSCI World0.05%€0.50
XDWD / XDWLMSCI World0.05%€0.47
SPYYMSCI ACWI0.04%€0.44
WIMIMSCI World IMI0.04%€0.42
IUSQMSCI ACWI0.04%€0.40

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The last column shows how much of €1,000 in one of these funds goes to Yum! Brands, based on each fund's latest holdings list.

US-listed ETFs holding Yum! Brands (weight per latest SEC filing): VYM 0.17%, VUG 0.14%, IVV 0.07%, SPY 0.07%, VOO 0.07%, VTI 0.06%. These funds are registered in the US; retail investors in the EU usually cannot buy them.

Yum! Brands Weight in iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL) Since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Oct 30, 2026

In iShares Core MSCI World (EUNL), Yum! Brands had a weight of 0.09% on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.05% on Oct 30, 2026. The fund tracks the MSCI World. Its share peaked at 0.09% on Sep 30, 2019. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price performance relative to the other index members. It can also change when the index provider adjusts the index composition.

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What's Inside Your ETF Portfolio and the ETF overlap check show how much Yum! Brands overlaps with the rest of a portfolio.

Which Tracked Investors Hold Yum! Brands?

Yum! Brands is not among the largest purchases in the quarter ending Jun 30, 2026. The list is led by GOOGL, DAL and NEBIUS GROUP N.V. The only manager we track that holds Yum! Brands reduced its position.

Tracked investors holding this stock
InvestorSharesValueQuarter
Bridgewater Associates15,909$3Mreduced by 152

As of Jun 30, 2026. Based on quarterly filings with the US securities regulator, submitted up to 45 days after the reference date. The change counts shares, not price gains.

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What Yum! Brands Executives and Directors Traded Recently

Trades by executives and directors
DatePersonTypeSharesPrice
Oct 7, 2026Turner Christopher Lee Director, Officer, Chief Executive OfficerSell (plan)285$140.11
Oct 1, 2026Mezvinsky Scott Officer, KFC Division CEOSell (plan)241$136.89

The table shows open-market purchases and sales reported over the past 90 days. Directors, officers and shareholders owning more than ten percent must report such transactions within two trading days. Awards and option exercises are excluded.

“Plan” means the transaction follows a schedule set up in advance under Rule 10b5-1. Sales consistently outnumber purchases in these filings because a large part of executive pay is granted in shares. For comparison: over the period covered, executives and directors reported sales at 271 of 350 tracked companies and purchases at 32.

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Stocks With ETF Exposure Similar to Yum! Brands

Stocks with ETF exposure similar to Yum! Brands
StockShared ETFsr1 yearAnnualized volatilityNet marginRevenue growth
Yum! Brands––+11.8%23.3%19.0%+8.8%
AutoZone21–-14.5%25.7%12.6%+7.4%
Carvana20–+11.9%66.0%6.9%+48.6%
Expedia Group20–+29.7%45.4%8.8%+7.6%
Las Vegas Sands20–-37.3%35.6%12.5%+15.2%
Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd20–+8.0%44.5%23.8%+8.8%
eBay20–+45.3%34.1%18.3%+7.9%
Hilton Worldwide Holdings20–+37.2%24.2%12.1%+7.7%
Tapestry20–+4.4%42.1%19.1%+14.2%

These stocks reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as Yum! Brands. “Shared ETFs” counts the funds that hold both.

Return and volatility are calculated from our daily closing prices in US dollars. Margin and growth come from each company's latest SEC annual filing. Because fiscal years do not end on the same date for every company, the underlying periods are not fully identical.

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Fundamental Analysis: Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands Key Financials

Revenue$8.2B
Net income$1.6B
Diluted EPS$5.55
Net margin19.0%
Return on equity-21.3%
Equity ratio-89.4%
Revenue growth+8.8%

Figures come from the SEC annual filing for the latest reported fiscal year (period end Dec 31, 2025).

Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal yearRevenueNet incomeMargin
FY ended Dec 20237.11.622.6%
FY ended Dec 20247.51.519.7%
FY ended Dec 20258.21.619.0%

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Technical Analysis: Yum! Brands

Yum! Brands Risk Metrics

Max drawdown-19.3%
Annualized volatility23.3%

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Below peak-7.6%
Beta to S&P 5000.02
Correlation to S&P 5000.01

The close on Oct 30, 2026, was 7.6% below the highest close since Aug 12, 2024. That high was reached on Feb 27, 2026. When the S&P 500 rose or fell 1%, Yum! Brands moved 0.02% on average in the same direction (past 252 trading days). The correlation of 0.01, however, shows only a moderate link to the broad market. Accordingly, moves in the S&P 500 explain only a small part of the daily price moves of Yum! Brands.

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What Yum! Brands Correlates With

The strongest co-movers are listed at the top, the strongest inverse movers at the bottom. Low or negative correlations can help spread risk more broadly across a portfolio.

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