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YUM Brands Inc. YUM

19 fiscal years on record · USD · FY2025 reported · SEC filings only

8 YEARS OF DIVIDEND GROWTH

Revenue

$8.2B

▲ 8.8% YoY

Net income

$1.6B

▲ 4.9% YoY

Free cash flow

$1.6B

▲ 14.5% YoY

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

Compound annual growth

Revenue

+6.3%

+7.8%

+2.5%

−2.1%

Net income

+5.6%

+11.5%

+2.0%

EPS, diluted

+6.7%

+13.6%

+6.7%

+5.8%

Dividend / share

+7.6%

+8.6%

+5.0%

+7.8%

Returned to shareholders

−10.2%

+11.0%

−3.5%

+4.6%

3 yrs

5 yrs

10 yrs

15 yrs

Revenue compounded at +7.8% a year over five years — 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%

ROE

FY2016 · ROE 180.4%

Gross margin69.8%

Operating margin31.3%

Net margin19.0%

Return on assets20.9%

EBITDAUSD 2.8B

Cash & shareholders

USD 1.3B

returned in FY2025 · dividends + net buybacks

Free cash flow $B

FY2025 · FCF 1.6

Net buybacks $B Dividends $B

FY2025 · Dividends 0.8 · Net buybacks 0.6

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×

Not available: we don't have the shareholders' equity figure for this period.

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

Metric	2025	2024	2023	2022	2021	2020	2019	2018	2017	2016	2015	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010	2009	2008	2007
Revenue $B	8.2	7.5	7.1	6.8	6.6	5.7	5.6	5.7	5.9	6.4	6.4	13.3	13.1	13.6	12.6	11.3	10.8	11.3	10.4
Operating income $B	2.6	2.4	2.3	2.2	2.1	1.5	1.9	2.3	2.8	1.7	1.4	1.5	1.8	2.3	1.8	1.8	1.6	1.5	1.4
EBITDA $B	2.8	2.6	2.5	2.3	2.3	1.6	2.0	2.4	3.0	2.0	1.8	1.8	2.5	3.0	2.5	2.4	2.2	2.1	1.9
Income tax $B	0.5	0.4	0.2	0.3	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.3	0.9	·	0.5	0.4	0.5	0.5	0.3	0.4	0.3	0.3	0.3
Net income $B	1.6	1.5	1.6	1.3	1.6	0.9	1.3	1.5	1.3	1.6	1.3	1.1	1.1	1.6	1.3	1.2	1.1	1.0	0.9
Free cash flow $B	1.6	1.4	1.3	1.1	1.5	1.1	1.1	0.9	0.7	·	1.2	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.2	1.2	0.6	0.6	0.8
EPS, diluted $	5.55	5.22	5.59	4.57	5.21	2.94	4.14	4.69	3.77	4.10	2.90	2.32	2.36	3.38	2.74	2.38	2.22	·	1.68
Dividend / sh $	2.84	2.68	2.42	2.28	2.00	1.88	1.68	1.44	0.90	1.73	1.74	1.56	1.41	1.24	1.07	0.92	0.80	·	0.45
Payout %	51	51	42	49	38	63	39	30	31	·	57	64	56	34	36	36	34	33	30
ROE %	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	·	180.4	104.4	56.6	50.5	80.3	77.6	89.0	233.6	·	·

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

Provenance

Company facts, as filed

How we verify · 0 failures in 73 reconciliationsAUDITED

Reconciled in 19 of 19 fiscal years. 4 checks could not be computed.

EPS recomputationBalance-sheet identityGross profitBalance-sheet liquiditymoeda_consistente0 failures

ActivityRetail-Eating Places

Listed onNYSE

Incorporated inNorth Carolina

Fiscal year endsDecember 31

Data on record since2007