Yum Brands Inc (YUM) saw downtrend of -1.33% in the recent trading with $145.83 being its most recent. The current price level -10.70% lower than the highest price of $163.30 marked by the stock while trading over the past 52-weeks, whereas it is 19.41% higher than the lowest price of $122.13 the company dropped to over past 52-weeks. The latest news story on YUM appeared in (Nation’s Restaurant News) under the title “KFC names Tiffany Furman chief growth officer” on Today.
Do analysts rate it as a buy, sell or hold?
Irrespective of recent performance, what’s important is what the future holds. In uncertain economic times, a clear picture is difficult to get. Analysts generally have a good understanding of the market works, which gives them a leg up in making predictions. Currently, the stock has been recommended as Moderate Buy by 14 of the brokerage firms. Analyst ratings are often compiled into a single score from 1 to 5. The score of 1 signifies buy or strong buy, the score of 2 signifies outperform, the score of 3 means hold, and the score of 4 indicates underperform. The simple numeric range of brokerage firm referenced at the scale of 1 to 5 reads a current average recommendation of 2.45 for the stock.
Yum Brands Inc Earnings – What Happened With YUM
Coming around sales and income figures on YUM Stock Income Statement, public trading companies under normal circumstances post earnings and revenues near to average estimates by the Wall Street analysts, but those could came either above or below estimates and known as surprise factor.
Yum Brands Inc – Insider Activity and Holdings
Investors get the exact data about the key information of institutional ownership in a listed company through its 13F filings at the Stock Exchange Commission (SEC). The total number of common shares currently owned by the public is 278.00 million. YUM does have institutional investors; and they hold 85.11% of the stock.
As on 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC was the top most holder in Yum Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM) with an ownership of 33.43 million shares of the company or 11.8547 of the stake worth $4.43 billion. The filing also reveals BLACKROCK INC. as the second largest holder in the company with a control over 8.3642 of the outstanding shares. Its stake is worth $3.12 billion for having 23.59 million shares in hand.
CAPITAL WORLD INVESTORS also came holding a key position in the company during the recent quarter and it now holds 6.9861 of the outstanding shares. With this there are now 1757.0 institutions which have possession in YUM’s shares.
Key Metrics forYUM
Technical Analysis of Yum Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM) stock
To comprehend better with the trade moves and investors’ behavior, exploring the short, medium and long term technical indicators along with average volume of a stock is an effective way to make use of. When looking into those indicators for Yum Brands Inc (YUM), we notice that the stock’s 20-day average volume is at 1,839,650 shares. And to end, YUM’s 100-day average volume is 2,108,935 shares with 50% of the long-term indicators pointing towards Buy for the stock.
