Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM)

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $6.4 billion in fiscal 2016 to $8.2 billion in fiscal 2025, up 2.9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 12% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2019; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, Yum! Brands, Inc.'s diluted share count shrank about 1.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 62% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 49 sales (37 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-04 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, Yum! Brands, Inc.'s shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read, and gross profitability: its products earned about 70 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 189 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 1.4% over the year (the filed statements).

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $8.2 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 16% by size; a net margin of 19% ranks in the top 6%; revenue growth of 6.3% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 48% (its annual reports).

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Turner, Christopher Lee (Chief Executive Officer, as filed), filing under that title since 2025-11-25, 12 months (bottom 26% of its family); the 22 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 7 years (top 19%); 13 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 22 people in charge now (bottom 40%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $709 million against debt of $12 billion leaves -136.2% of its assets as net cash, bottom 4% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 20% of revenue (top 4%); a gross margin of 69.8% (top 43%) (its annual report).

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 6.3% a year over the last three filed years against 2.9% over all 10, speeding up (top 23% of its family); the newest year grew 8.8% (top 35%); research spending grew -2.3% a year (top 50%); capital spending grew 10% a year (top 39%) (its annual reports). Yum! Brands, Inc. reported 5 lines of business in fiscal 2025: KFC Global Division at $3.5 billion (43%), Taco Bell Global Division at $3.1 billion (38%), Pizza Hut Global Division at $1.0 billion (12%), and 2 more; 3 of 4 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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Yum! Brands, Inc.'s newest year against its own record: revenue of $8.2 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 3.6% above the $7.9 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 9% of its family); net income of $1.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $1.5 billion (top 42%); a net margin of 19% against 20.5% before (bottom 42%) (its annual reports).