Yum! Brands $YUM Read from its own SEC filings · nothing written, nothing inferred
🫧 Edgar looked up YUM! BRANDS, INC. ($YUM). Last filing: 8-K (5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers), 2026-09-01. 15 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.
🔖 Exposure: revenue $8.2B (FY2025), total debt $12.0B. Experience: revenue up 8.8% on the year, up 5.7% a year over 4 years; operating margin 31.3%, down from 31.8%. Soundness: equity -89.4% of assets (liabilities exceed assets), payout 50.6% of profit, dividend per share up 8 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $7.9B and $9.4B next year (method v4.1: its own 4-year record of growth weighed at 50% against $1B–10B filers; on a year the method never saw, 83.4% landed inside). In a shock year the stress range is $7.4B to $10.0B. A statistical range, not company guidance. Against peers (31 filers, $50M+ revenue, retail-eating places): operating margin 31.3% against a 4.3% median; growth 8.8% against 4.7%.
Gold paid out, navy kept. Kept share × return on equity = the growth it can fund itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.
Speed and cash · fiscal 2025
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| Cash flow (op · inv · fin · free) | $2.0B · −$1.0B · −$924M · $1.6B |
| Investment book (cash · short · long) | $709M · $0M · — · current ratio 1.35 |
| Revenue swing · equity of assets | 2.4% · -89.4% |
Yum! Brands is growing faster than its size class, with steadier revenue. Its own audited SEC figures.
The figures, as filed
| Fiscal year end | 2025-12-31 |
| Revenue | $8.2B |
| Revenue, on the year | 8.8% |
| Revenue, a year over the record | 5.7% |
| Operating margin | 31.3% |
| Operating margin, prior year | 31.8% |
| Net margin | 19.0% |
| Research and development | not filed separately |
| Total debt | $12.0B |
| Equity of assets | −89.4% |
| Return on equity | — |
| Payout of profit | 50.6% |
| Dividend per share | $2.84 · up 8 years running |
| Earnings per share | $5.59 |
| Book value per share | $-26.07 |
| Revenue per share | $29.23 |
| Shares outstanding | 281,000,000 |
| Audited years read | 5 |
Peers: the median of 31 filers with $50M+ revenue in retail-eating places.
Health HarborYum! Brands sails as: Sound ship
Health watch · 12 monthsDirector or officer change ×5
Sailing speed follows growth: 6.3% a year crosses the harbor in 61 seconds.
🌊 Visit the Bay →- liabilities exceed assets (often from years of share buybacks, not always distress)
Boat condition = number of warning signs: a serious warning filing in 12 months; liabilities over assets; slow and jumpy; negative operating cash; an 80% revenue range of ±25% or wider. A picture of the signs, not a rating and not investment advice.
- 8-K · 2026-09-01 · 5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers; 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure; 8.01 Other Events; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-08-21 · 5.02 Departure or Election of Directors; Appointment of Officers
- 8-K · 2026-08-07 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 2.01 Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets; 7.01 Regulation FD Disclosure; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 10-Q · 2026-08-05
- 8-K · 2026-07-30 · 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition; 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits
- 8-K · 2026-06-16 · 1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement; 8.01 Other Events
Figures are as filed in audited 10-K reports and can move with restatements, acquisitions, disposals or a change in fiscal year. A range set from how past company-years turned out is not a promise about the next one, and says nothing about the share price. Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets and no trading recommendations. Figures from the SEC’s own data · every filing · this page as JSON · ask about another company