Fast-food company Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before market hours. Here’s what to expect.
Yum! Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 2.6% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.79 billion, up 11.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Yum! Brands’s revenue to grow 9.9% year on year to $1.94 billion, improving from the 4.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.46 per share.
Heading into earnings, analysts covering the company have grown increasingly bullish with revenue estimates seeing 10 upward revisions over the last 30 days (we track 20 analysts).
Looking at Yum! Brands’s peers in the traditional fast food segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. El Pollo Loco delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 3%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.6%, and Domino's reported revenues up 4.3%, in line with consensus estimates. El Pollo Loco traded up 1.4% following the results while Domino's was also up 3%.
Read our full analysis of El Pollo Loco’s results here and Domino’s results here.
Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the traditional fast food stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 7.6% on average over the last month. Yum! Brands is down 3.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $160.22 (compared to the current share price of $145.36).
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