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YUM Brands Inc. YUM

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only
8 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH
$8.2B
▲ 8.8% YoY
$1.6B
▲ 4.9% YoY
$1.6B
▲ 14.5% YoY

Slide the table for earlier years · "·" marks a figure not available in our data for that year.

In brief

What this company does

YUM develops, operates and franchises a worldwide system of traditional and non-traditional quick service restaurants through its Concepts. It has over 63,000 restaurants in 155 countries and territories, operating primarily under its KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and Habit Burger & Grill concepts. As of December 31, 2025, the Company and its subsidiaries employed approximately 49,000 persons, including about 28,000 in the U.S. and 21,000 outside the U.S. As of December 31, 2025, YUM consisted of four operating segments, one for each Concept: the KFC Division, the Taco Bell Division, the Pizza Hut Division and the Habit Burger & Grill Division, each covering that concept's worldwide operations. KFC was founded in Corbin, Kentucky, by Colonel Harland D. Sanders. The first Taco Bell restaurant was opened in 1962 by Glen Bell in Downey, California, with the first Taco Bell franchise sold in 1964. The first Pizza Hut restaurant opened in 1958 in Wichita, Kansas, with its first franchise unit opening within a year. The first Habit Burger & Grill restaurant opened in 1969 in Santa Barbara, California.

Written from the business description in YUM! BRANDS, INC.'s annual report to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, filed 20 February 2026. Every sentence was checked against that document before publication.

Growth

USD 8.2B
Revenue, FY2025 · full 19-year series below
Revenue $B Net income $B
FY2025 · Revenue 8.2 · Net income 1.6
5B10B
2007201020132016201920222025
Compound annual growth
+6.3%
+7.8%
+2.5%
−2.1%
+5.6%
+11.5%
+2.0%
+2.0%
+6.7%
+13.6%
+6.7%
+5.8%
+7.6%
+8.6%
+5.0%
+7.8%
−10.2%
+11.0%
3 yrs
5 yrs
10 yrs
15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.8% a year over the five years to FY2025 — but profit grew faster: net income at +11.5%, earnings per share at +13.6%.

Compound annual rates per period — left blank where that exact year isn't on file, the series crosses a loss, or (per-share rows) a split falls inside the window.

Profitability

19 cents
of every revenue dollar became profit
Operating margin Net margin
FY2025 · Operating 31.3% · Net 19.0%
20%40%
200720162025
ROE
FY2015 · ROE 104.4%
50%100%
200720162025
Three returns, three denominators.
Return on equityNot applicable: equity was zero or negative in this period, so return on equity has no meaning.
Gross margin69.8%
Operating margin31.3%
Net margin19.0%
EBITDAUSD 2.8B

Return on equity has no reading this year — return on capital employed, just below, still does: 42%.

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.3B
returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks
Free cash flow $B
FY2025 · FCF 1.6
1B2B
200720162025
Net buybacks $B Dividends $B
FY2025 · Dividends 0.8 · Net buybacks 0.6
1B2BDividendsNet buybacks
2007201020132017202020232025
Dividends paidUSD 789.0M
Net buybacksUSD 550.0M
Share of profit85.9%
Consecutive raises8 years

USD 789.0M in dividends and USD 550.0M in buybacks — 86% of the year's profit went back to shareholders.

Total assetsUSD 8.2B
CashUSD 709.0M
Gross debtUSD 11.9B
Net debtUSD 11.2B
Current ratio1.35×

Equity was zero or negative — liabilities equaled or exceeded assets. No ratio is shown.

The 19-year record

19 fiscal years
Every figure from documents filed with the SEC · USD

EPS, diluted, dividend per share and shares outstanding are shown without shading, and a vertical line marks the year the share count changed — the series crosses a large, unexplained change in share count, so the years on either side are not on a comparable scale.

row low → row highnegative—not applicable◌not available in our data
YUM, 19-year financial record
Metric 2025202420232022202120202019201820172016201520142013201220112010200920082007
Revenue $B8.27.57.16.86.65.75.65.75.96.46.413.313.113.612.611.310.811.310.4
Operating income $B2.62.42.32.22.11.51.92.32.81.71.41.51.82.31.81.81.61.51.4
EBITDA $B2.82.62.52.32.31.62.02.43.02.01.81.82.53.02.52.42.22.11.9
Income tax $B0.50.40.20.30.10.10.10.30.9◌0.50.40.50.50.30.40.30.30.3
Net income $B1.61.51.61.31.60.91.31.51.31.61.31.11.11.61.31.21.11.00.9
Free cash flow $B1.61.41.31.11.51.11.10.90.7◌1.21.01.11.21.21.20.60.60.8
EPS, diluted $5.555.225.594.575.212.944.144.693.774.102.902.322.363.382.742.382.22◌1.68
Dividend / sh $2.842.682.422.282.001.881.681.440.901.731.741.561.411.241.070.920.80◌0.45
Payout %515142493863393031—576456343636343330
ROE %——————————104.456.650.580.377.689.0——◌

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Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 73 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of the 19 fiscal years we could check. Two checks were skipped: the balance sheet is not tagged before 2008. One check was skipped: the share count is not tagged before 2008.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquidityCurrency consistency0 failures
ActivityRetail-Eating Places
Listed onNYSE
Incorporated inNorth Carolina
Fiscal year endsDecember 31
Data on record since2007

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