During the recent session, Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC)’s traded shares were 0.8 million, with the beta value of the company hitting 0.28. At the last check today, the stock’s price was $42.70, reflecting an intraday loss of -4.62% or -$2.07. The 52-week high for the YUMC share is $53.99, that puts it down -26.44 from that peak though still a striking 33.26% gain since the share price plummeted to a 52-week low of $28.50. The company’s market capitalization is $15.94B, and the average intraday trading volume over the past 10 days was 2.87 million shares, and the average trade volume was 3.12 million shares over the past three months.
Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) received a consensus recommendation of Buy from analysts. That translates to a mean rating of 1.28. YUMC has a Sell rating from 1 analyst(s) out of 5 analysts who have looked at this stock. 1 analyst(s) recommend to Hold the stock while 0 suggest Overweight, and 3 recommend a Buy rating for it.
Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC) trade information
Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) registered a -4.62% downside in the last session and has traded in the green over the past 5 sessions. The stock plummet -4.62% in intraday trading to $42.70, hitting a weekly high. The stock’s 5-day price performance is 0.42%, and it has moved by -1.41% in 30 days. Based on these gigs, the overall price performance for the year is 19.34%. The short interest in Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC) is 7.7 million shares and it means that shorts have 2.54 day(s) to cover.
The consensus price target of analysts on Wall Street is $56, which implies an increase of 23.75% to the stock’s current value. The extremes of the forecast give a target low and a target high price of $37.4 and $123 respectively. As a result, YUMC is trading at a discount of -188.06% off the target high and 12.41% off the low.
An analysis of the company’s performance over the past 5 years shows that the company’s earnings grew an estimated 4.31%. While earnings are projected to return 8.61% in 2025, the next five years will return 11.30% per annum.
YUMC Dividends
Yum China Holdings Inc is due to release its next quarterly earnings on 2025-Apr-29. However, it is important to remember that the dividend yield ratio is merely an indicator meant to only serve as guidance. Investors should also take the other fundamental and operational aspects into account before investing in the stock. The forward dividend ratio for Yum China Holdings Inc is 0.80, with the dividend yield indicating at 1.87 percent, continuing the trend of increasing dividends in recent years. The average dividend yield of the company for the last 5 years is 1.01%.
Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE:YUMC)’s Major holders
Yum China Holdings Inc insiders own 0.35% of total outstanding shares while institutional holders control 92.99%, with the float percentage being 93.31%. JPMORGAN CHASE & CO is the largest shareholder of the company, while 1144.0 institutions own stock in it. As of 2024-06-30, the company held over 19.62 million shares (or 5.0435% of all shares), a total value of $605.06 million in shares.
The next largest institutional holding, with 17.37 million shares, is of BLACKROCK INC.’s that is approximately 4.4661% of outstanding shares. At the market price on 2024-06-30, these shares were valued at $535.79 million.
Also, the Mutual Funds coming in first place with the largest holdings of Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) shares are Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund and VANGUARD STAR FUNDS-Vanguard Total International Stock Index Fund . Data provided on Mar 31, 2025 indicates that Dodge & Cox Funds-Dodge & Cox International Stock Fund owns about 8.07 shares. This amounts to just over 2.16 percent of the company’s overall shares, with a $348.19 million market value. The same data shows that the other fund manager holds slightly less at 5.18, or about 1.39% of the stock, which is worth about $223.31 million.
