Is it safe?
Can YUM take a bad year?
Yum! Brands carries $14.4B of net debt at 4.91× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
$14.4B
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.91×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.44× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.56
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Annualised volatility
- 23%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $15.1B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $674M
- Net debt
- $14.4B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.94B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $2.70B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.13×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 23%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- −7.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Consumer Cyclical
Ranks #62 of 255 by Smart Score