Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) Shares Sold by Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC

Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC trimmed its stake in Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUMFree Report) by 14.7% during the fourth quarter, according to its most recent 13F filing with the SEC. The firm owned 2,085 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock after selling 360 shares during the period. Mount Yale Investment Advisors LLC’s holdings in Yum! Brands were worth $280,000 as of its most recent filing with the SEC.

Several other large investors have also recently made changes to their positions in YUM. Safe Harbor Fiduciary LLC acquired a new position in Yum! Brands during the third quarter worth $29,000. DiNuzzo Private Wealth Inc. raised its holdings in shares of Yum! Brands by 957.1% in the 3rd quarter. DiNuzzo Private Wealth Inc. now owns 222 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock valued at $31,000 after buying an additional 201 shares during the period. Kimelman & Baird LLC acquired a new position in Yum! Brands during the 2nd quarter worth about $37,000. Strategic Investment Solutions Inc. IL purchased a new position in Yum! Brands during the 2nd quarter valued at about $39,000. Finally, Morse Asset Management Inc acquired a new position in Yum! Brands in the 3rd quarter valued at about $42,000. 82.37% of the stock is currently owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Buying and Selling at Yum! Brands

In related news, CEO David W. Gibbs sold 7,059 shares of the stock in a transaction on Friday, November 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $135.94, for a total transaction of $959,600.46. Following the completion of the sale, the chief executive officer now directly owns 149,385 shares of the company’s stock, valued at $20,307,396.90. This trade represents a 4.51 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available through this link. Company insiders own 0.31% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

Several research analysts have recently commented on YUM shares. Redburn Atlantic lowered shares of Yum! Brands from a “strong-buy” rating to a “hold” rating in a research note on Monday, November 11th. Sanford C. Bernstein downgraded shares of Yum! Brands from an “outperform” rating to a “market perform” rating and dropped their price target for the stock from $140.00 to $135.00 in a research note on Wednesday, January 22nd. Loop Capital reduced their price objective on Yum! Brands from $143.00 to $140.00 and set a “hold” rating on the stock in a research note on Wednesday, November 6th. Morgan Stanley reissued an “equal weight” rating and set a $140.00 target price (down from $158.00) on shares of Yum! Brands in a research note on Tuesday, January 21st. Finally, TD Cowen reaffirmed a “hold” rating and issued a $145.00 price target on shares of Yum! Brands in a research report on Wednesday, November 6th. Thirteen equities research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and five have issued a buy rating to the company’s stock. Based on data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $144.89.

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Yum! Brands Trading Up 0.1 %

Shares of NYSE YUM opened at $129.31 on Thursday. The stock has a market cap of $36.09 billion, a P/E ratio of 24.17, a P/E/G ratio of 2.02 and a beta of 1.11. Yum! Brands, Inc. has a twelve month low of $122.13 and a twelve month high of $143.20. The stock has a 50 day moving average of $132.84 and a two-hundred day moving average of $133.58.

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUMGet Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, November 5th. The restaurant operator reported $1.37 earnings per share for the quarter, missing analysts’ consensus estimates of $1.41 by ($0.04). The business had revenue of $1.83 billion for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.90 billion. Yum! Brands had a negative return on equity of 18.93% and a net margin of 21.13%. The firm’s revenue for the quarter was up 6.9% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned $1.44 EPS. As a group, research analysts predict that Yum! Brands, Inc. will post 5.46 earnings per share for the current year.

Yum! Brands Dividend Announcement

The business also recently disclosed a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, December 13th. Shareholders of record on Monday, December 2nd were given a dividend of $0.67 per share. The ex-dividend date was Monday, December 2nd. This represents a $2.68 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.07%. Yum! Brands’s payout ratio is 50.09%.

Yum! Brands Company Profile

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Yum! Brands, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises quick service restaurants worldwide. The company operates through the KFC Division, the Taco Bell Division, the Pizza Hut Division, and the Habit Burger Grill Division segments. It also operates restaurants under the KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and The Habit Burger Grill brands, which specialize in chicken, pizza, made-to-order chargrilled burgers, sandwiches, Mexican-style food categories, and other food products.

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Institutional Ownership by Quarter for Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM)

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