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YUM (Yum Brands) Financial Strength : 4 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Yum Brands Financial Strength?

Yum Brands has the Financial Strength Rank of 4.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

Yum Brands's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 5.03. Yum Brands's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 1.53. As of today, Yum Brands's Altman Z-Score is 2.41.


Competitive Comparison of Yum Brands's Financial Strength

For the Restaurants subindustry, Yum Brands's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Yum Brands's Financial Strength Distribution in the Restaurants Industry

For the Restaurants industry and Consumer Cyclical sector, Yum Brands's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Yum Brands's Financial Strength falls into.



Yum Brands Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Yum Brands's Interest Expense for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $-120 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $603 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $11,169 Mil.

Yum Brands's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

Interest Coverage=-1*Operating Income (Q: Sep. 2024 )/Interest Expense (Q: Sep. 2024 )
=-1*603/-120
=5.03

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Yum Brands's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Sep. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(24 + 11169) / 7304
=1.53

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Yum Brands has a Z-score of 2.41, indicating it is in Grey Zones. This implies that Yum Brands is in some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.81, the company may faces bankrupcy risk.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of 2.41 is in the grey area. This implies that the company is under some kind of financial stress. If it is below 1.8, the company may face bankruptcy risk.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Yum Brands  (NYSE:YUM) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Yum Brands has the Financial Strength Rank of 4.


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Yum Brands Business Description

Address
1441 Gardiner Lane, Louisville, KY, USA, 40213
Yum Brands is a US-based restaurant operator featuring a portfolio of four brands: KFC (29,900 global units at year-end 2023), Pizza Hut (19,866 units), Taco Bell (8,564 units), and The Habit Burger Grill (381 units). With $64 billion in 2023 systemwide sales, the firm is the second-largest restaurant company in the world behind McDonald's ($130 billion), ahead of Restaurant Brands International ($43 billion) and Starbucks ($29 billion). Yum is 98% franchised, with the largest franchisee, wide-moat Yum China, spun out in 2016, after which Yum China agreed to pay 3% royalties to Yum Brands in perpetuity. Yum is the newest evolution of Tricon, formerly a division of PepsiCo, and generates the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and marketing contributions.
Executives
David W Gibbs director, officer: Chief Executive Officer 7100 CORPORATE DRIVE, PLANO TX 75024
Graddick Weir Mirian M director 2000 GALLOPING HILL ROAD, KENILWORTH NJ 07033
Scott Catlett officer: General Counsel and Corp. Sec. 1441GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
Sabir Sami officer: Chief Executive Officer - KFC 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
Paget Leonard Alves director SPRINT NEXTEL, 6200 SPRINT PARKWAY KSOPHF0410 - 4A403, OVERLAND PARK KS 66251
Tracy L Skeans officer: Chief People Officer 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
David Eric Russell officer: Vice President, Controller 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
Mark James King officer: CEO - Taco Bell 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
M. Brett Biggs director 702 SW 8TH STREET, BENTONVILLE AR 72716
Susan Doniz director C/O THE BOEING COMPANY, 100 RIVERSIDE PLAZA, MC 5003-1001, CHICAGO IL 60606-1596
Anthony Lowings officer: CEO, KFC Division 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
Aaron Powell officer: CEO - Pizza Hut P.O. BOX 619100, DALLAS TX 75261-9100
Lauren R Hobart director 345 COURT STREET, CORAOPOLIS PA 15275
Greg Creed officer: President Taco Bell 1441 GARDINER LANE, LOUISVILLE KY 40213
Scrivner Annie Young director 2401 UTAH AVE. S. SUITE 800, SEATTLE WA 98134