Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) concluded trading on Wednesday at a closing price of $138.36, with 3.33 million shares of worth about $460.96 million changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 8.04% during that period and on March 13, 2024 the price saw a loss of about -1.69%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 281.00M shares, out of which, 280.88M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of -0.85% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of 5.33%. Year-to-date (YTD), YUM shares are showing a performance of 5.89% which increased to 10.79% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $115.53 but also hit the highest price of $143.24 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for Yum Brands Inc. shares is 1.80 million. The stock is currently trading 0.73% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is up 4.26% for SMA50 and it goes to 6.37% higher than SMA200.
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Yum Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) currently have 281.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 83.52% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $38.93B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 1.10. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 24.74, while it has posted earnings per share of $5.59 in the same period. Its PEG reads 1.92 and has Quick Ratio of 1.26. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for YUM, volatility over the week remained 1.45% while standing at 1.32% over the month.
Analysts are in expectations that Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) stock would likely to be making an EPS of $1.22 in the current quarter, while forecast for next quarter EPS is $1.37 and it is $6.5 for next year. For the current quarter EPS, analysts have given the company a lowest target $1.14 which is $1.3 at the higher side of the target for the same. When we compare those targets with actual EPS, we find that company posted an EPS of $1.06 in the same quarter a year ago. Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 11.99% while it is estimated to increase by 12.38% in next year. EPS is likely to grow at an annualized rate of 12.89% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 3.62% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Wells Fargo on January 11, 2024 offering an Equal weight rating for the stock and assigned a target price range of between $150 and $135 to it. Coverage by Oppenheimer stated Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) stock as an Outperform in their note to investors on January 05, 2024, suggesting a price target of $154 for the stock. On January 04, 2024, Stifel Downgrade their recommendations, while on January 03, 2024, Barclays Upgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $146. Stock get a Neutral rating from Redburn Atlantic on October 20, 2023.
