YUMCYum China Holdings, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (AA), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.8M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 25% below its 52-week high.
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 YUMC take a bad year?
Yum China Holdings, Inc. holds $1.32B more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Debt / equity
- 0.01×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 34%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $66M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.39B
- Net cash
- $1.32B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.85B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.38B
- Debt / equity
- 0.01×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.04×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.