Win Advisors Inc. Makes New Investment in Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM)

Win Advisors Inc. purchased a new position in shares of Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) during the 1st quarter, HoldingsChannel reports. The firm purchased 5,430 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock, valued at approximately $854,000.

Several other institutional investors and hedge funds have also made changes to their positions in YUM. Kohmann Bosshard Financial Services LLC acquired a new position in shares of Yum! Brands during the 4th quarter worth about $25,000. WealthTrak Capital Management LLC acquired a new position in shares of Yum! Brands during the 4th quarter worth about $25,000. Halbert Hargrove Global Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Yum! Brands during the 4th quarter worth about $33,000. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. boosted its position in shares of Yum! Brands by 436.5% during the 4th quarter. Itau Unibanco Holding S.A. now owns 279 shares of the restaurant operator’s stock worth $37,000 after acquiring an additional 227 shares in the last quarter. Finally, LGT Financial Advisors LLC acquired a new position in shares of Yum! Brands during the 4th quarter worth about $41,000. 82.37% of the stock is owned by institutional investors and hedge funds.

Insider Transactions at Yum! Brands

In other news, CEO David W. Gibbs sold 7,063 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Thursday, May 15th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.57, for a total transaction of $1,028,160.91. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 157,893 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $22,984,484.01. This represents a 4.28% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is accessible through this hyperlink. Also, CEO Scott Mezvinsky sold 268 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, June 4th. The stock was sold at an average price of $145.97, for a total value of $39,119.96. Following the transaction, the chief executive officer now directly owns 1,755 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $256,177.35. This trade represents a 13.25% decrease in their ownership of the stock. The disclosure for this sale can be found here. In the last three months, insiders sold 12,470 shares of company stock valued at $1,821,172. Corporate insiders own 0.33% of the company’s stock.

Analyst Ratings Changes

YUM has been the subject of several analyst reports. Barclays upped their price objective on Yum! Brands from $163.00 to $167.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 1st. Citigroup upped their target price on Yum! Brands from $148.00 to $151.00 and gave the company a “neutral” rating in a research report on Tuesday, April 15th. Wells Fargo & Company upped their target price on Yum! Brands from $145.00 to $160.00 and gave the company an “equal weight” rating in a research report on Wednesday, March 5th. Evercore ISI upped their target price on Yum! Brands from $160.00 to $170.00 and gave the company an “in-line” rating in a research report on Thursday, May 1st. Finally, Oppenheimer reissued an “outperform” rating and issued a $185.00 target price on shares of Yum! Brands in a research report on Monday, April 28th. Fourteen analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and eight have assigned a buy rating to the company’s stock. According to MarketBeat, the stock currently has a consensus rating of “Hold” and an average target price of $158.24.

Yum! Brands Stock Up 1.7%

YUM opened at $141.44 on Tuesday. The business has a 50 day moving average price of $145.01 and a two-hundred day moving average price of $143.42. The company has a market cap of $39.31 billion, a PE ratio of 28.18, a P/E/G ratio of 2.09 and a beta of 0.74. Yum! Brands, Inc. has a 52 week low of $122.13 and a 52 week high of $163.30.

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) last posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, April 30th. The restaurant operator reported $1.30 EPS for the quarter, beating the consensus estimate of $1.29 by $0.01. The firm had revenue of $1.79 billion during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $1.85 billion. Yum! Brands had a negative return on equity of 20.80% and a net margin of 18.42%. The firm’s revenue was up 11.8% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the business earned $1.15 EPS. As a group, sell-side analysts expect that Yum! Brands, Inc. will post 5.94 EPS for the current fiscal year.

Yum! Brands Dividend Announcement

The firm also recently announced a quarterly dividend, which was paid on Friday, June 6th. Stockholders of record on Tuesday, May 27th were paid a dividend of $0.71 per share. This represents a $2.84 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 2.01%. The ex-dividend date was Tuesday, May 27th. Yum! Brands’s dividend payout ratio (DPR) is 56.57%.

Yum! Brands Profile

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.