4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Yum! Brands
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, fast-food giant Yum! Brands (NYS: YUM) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Yum!'s business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Yum! facts
Founded (founded) | Louisville, Ky. (1997) |
Market Cap | $29.1 billion |
Industry | Restaurants |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $12.9 billion |
Management | Chairman/CEO David Novak |
Return on Capital (average, past 3 years) | 24.3% |
Cash/Debt | $1.1 billion / $3.3 billion |
Dividend Yield | 1.8% |
Competitors | Burger King Worldwide |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 3,238 members who have rated Yum! believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
A couple of months ago, one of those Fools, acolgategreen, succinctly summed up the bull case for our community:
[Yum!] is going to outperform over the next four years because it is continuing to expand in emerging markets such as China and India. ... If you think that [Yum!'s] growth period is over, you are sadly mistaken. Consider this fact. In the U.S. [Yum!] has 58 restaurants for every 1,000,000 people. In emerging markets, [Yum!] only has 2 for every 1,000,000 people. What this means is that there is going to be strong growth in emerging markets for an indefinite period of time.
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