YUMYum! Brands

$144.84+1.1% 1Y

Is the price fair?

Fair

The yardsticks disagree: cheap against its own 5-year P/E range (15th percentile) but the cash-flow math implies demanding growth. Treat as fair, not cheap.

1 good, 1 to watch, 1 neutral
What the price assumes~+9% a year

Priced for ~9% a year FCF growth. Roughly in line with its three-year revenue growth of 8% a year.

Vs its own P/E rangecheaper than 85% of its own historyderived

Cheap vs its own history: P/E 18.2 vs a 23.4 median over 34 quarters (−22% vs median).

Vs sector (EV/EBIT)20.9×

Sector median 16.2× across 156 covered peers. EV/EBIT counts debt as part of the price, so a cash-rich and a borrowed company can be compared on the same footing.

Unless marked, from derived, as of Jun 30, 2026.

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.

P/E (valuation)middle of the market
FCF yieldmiddle of the market

Where this answer is blind. The growth-implied estimate assumes a fixed discount rate; capital-heavy sectors look structurally rich on it.

What YUM's price assumes

Yum! Brands trades at 18.2× earnings against 17.8× for the median Consumer Cyclical name, more expensive than its own group.

18.2

Trailing P/E · Consumer Cyclical median 17.8 · 1.02× the median: the market pays up for this one

Price / sales
4.84

Price / sales · today's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026

Free cash flow yield
4.0%

Free cash flow yield · Consumer Cyclical median 6.0%

Growth the price implies
+8.7%

Growth the price implies · The price pays for +8.7% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered +9.5% a year over the last three.

Details›
EV / EBITtoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
20.9
EV / salestoday's price, trailing year to Jun 30, 2026
6.49
Consumer Cyclical median P/E321 names
17.8
Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
$1.68B
Market capitalisation
$42.2B
3-year revenue growth
+7.6%
3-year free cash flow growth
+9.5%
What the market has paid for these earnings: 34 quarters of its own multiple × $7.95 of trailing earnings per share
MethodPer share
Its own P/E history, lower quartile$168.45
Its own P/E history, median$186.37
Its own P/E history, upper quartile$208.75
52-week range$135.19 – $167.34
Today$144.84

Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.