YUMYum! Brands
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but heavy debt (BB).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
Mixed fundamental signals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$2.0M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 13% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
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.
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
- 24%
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
- 24%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.