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[Reuters] - McDonald's Corp and Yum Brands Inc are facing a new food safety scare in China, denting the fast food giants' efforts to shore up reputations and businesses that were hurt by a 2012 safety scandal in one of their biggest markets. McDonald's and KFC-parent Yum apologized to customers on Monday after Chinese [...]

Good morning traders.  I closed up shop early today. I was 4 for 4 this morning, and I will not give back to the market what I made. This way I go out with a positive and confidence building day. I posted the first three trades with profit targets on my twitter feed last Friday.   See side bar for trade results. Update: All my closed short trades have moved higher after exits. What a great feeling. Today was a good day for me, "blessing to all and good trading." 1. Short trade in...

[at Seeking Alpha] - Yum! Brands ( YUM ) recently announced its annual dividend increase in September. As has been the case over the past few years, this announcement closely followed McDonald's ( MCD ) dividend increase announcement. ... Read more on this. McDonald's Corp. (MCD), with a current value of $97.07B, opened [...]

Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock. During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each [...]

It seems that the Chinese division of  Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM), which is also the largest contributor to its revenue stream, is going through a bad phase. In a recent SEC filing, Yum! Brands stated that its China division’s same-store sales (comparable sales) have suffered a 13% decline in March with a 16% fall in [...]

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Yum Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM - News), owner of fast-food brand KFC, plans to open between 60 and 70 restaurants this year in Russia and other former Soviet countries and is looking for new franchise partners to help drive growth. Yum and its franchisees already have 216 restaurants in the Commonwealth of Independent States [...]

YUM! Brands, Inc. (YUM), together with its subsidiaries, operates quick service restaurants in the United States and internationally. Dividend stock has paid dividends since 2004, and has increased dividends for 8 years in a row. The company’s last dividend increase was in September 2012 when the Board of Directors approved a 17.50% increase in the quarterly distribution to 33.50 cents /share. The company’s peer group includes McDonald’s (MCD), Burger King (BKW) and Domino’s Pizza...

Stocks tend to be most volatile around earnings season, when a good or bad report can make or break it. However, a good or even great earnings report doesn't necessarily translate into a huge pop for a stock. During earnings season, BullMarket.com publishes a comprehensive 25- to 40-page Earnings Preview report for the week ahead each [...]

YUM! Brands, Inc. (YUM), together with its subsidiaries, operates quick service restaurants in the United States and internationally. Dividend stock has paid dividends since 2004, and has increased dividends for 8 years in a row. The company’s last dividend increase was in September 2012 when the Board of Directors approved a 17.50% increase in the quarterly distribution to 33.50 cents /share. The company’s peer group includes McDonald’s (MCD), Burger King (BKW) and Domino’s Pizza...

The disappointing earnings from Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM), operator of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants, has been attributed to the slowdown in China. The sharp pullback that began at the end of November has found support at the $66 halfway range of the 2012 highs near $75 to lows near $57. The [...]

Courtesy of Benzinga. Yum! Brands(NYSE: YUM) Board of Directors authorized the Company to repurchase up to $1 billion in additional shares of common stock and declared a dividend of $0.335 per share of common stock. The quarterly dividend will be distributed February 1, 2013, to shareholders of record at the close of [...]

Yum Brands is the owner of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut fast food restaurants. -Seven Year Revenue Growth Rate: 4.9% -Seven Year EPS Growth Rate: 12.4% -Recent Dividend Growth Rate: 17.5% -Current Dividend Yield: 1.92% -Balance Sheet Strength: Moderate Overview Yum Brands operates the brands of Kentucky Fried Chicken, Taco Bell, and Pizza hut, with over 37,000 restaurants in over 120 countries. The company was spun off from Pepsico in 1997, and maintains a...

Today, Yum Brands Inc. (YUM) raised its quarterly dividend by 18%, the current dividend yield is close to 2%. Yum Brands has been performing well, especially in China, despite the slow-down in economic growth. "Yum's consistent performance and substantial free-cash-flow generation allows us to return significant cash to our shareholders through a meaningful quarterly dividend and share [...]

On Wednesday, McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD) reported a disappointing July sales report with stores open at least 13 months, unchanged globally. This came in lower than analysts estimates of a 2.3 percent increase. Domestic sales also dropped, 0.1. percent; this was also lower than 2.2 percent forecasts. The U.S. decline represents the weakest performance for McDonald's since [...]

  The newly appointed CEO of McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD)'s, Don Thompson, is betting on chicken items to revive the growth. He says snack items like Chicken McBites would help attract cash-conscious customers as chicken is a lot cheaper than beef right now. Fast food chains around the world are troubled by the decreasing consumer confidence in the US, [...]

This morning, many of the leading restaurant stocks are declining lower. Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc (NYSE:CMG) has been one of the stronger restaurant stocks in the market. This leading stock sold off sharply on April 19, 2012 when it traded as high as $439.40 a share. Today, CMG stock is trading lower by $4.61 to [...]

After the close on Wednesday, Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) reported earnings. The report showed that Yum! Brands, Inc. earned $0.76. Wall Street was expecting big things from YUM, which is dubbed the largest fast-food company. YUM  Raised FY Growth View to At Least 12%. Yum Q1 revenue was $2.74 bln vs $2.43 bln estimates. Analysts polled were looking for [...]

QUALCOMM, Inc. (NASDAQ:QCOM) reports earnings today. The company is expected to report $0.95-$0.99 profit per share. While the analysts have given their opinions, I find it far more accurate to analyze the charts. First, the stock has surged dramatically in 2012. It has jumped from $54.70 to a recent 52 week high of $68.87. This move [...]

This morning, the leading fast food stock McDonald's Corp (NYSE:MCD) is trading lower by $1.06 to $97.50 a share. This leading restaurant stock is one of the only stocks in the sector to decline while the major stock indexes are rallying higher. Short term traders should watch for intra-day support around the $97.00 area. The [...]

by Renee O'Farrell The ubiquitous food product commonly known as "pink slime" is all over the media right now. Pink slime, which is known in the industry as "finely textured beef," is made from the scraps that are left over after choice cuts such as steaks and chops have been carved from a carcass. It has [...]

By Larry Gellar I have identified five interesting stocks that recently reported earnings. While food companies Yum Brands (YUM) and Sysco (SYY) did well, Humana (HUM) and Loews (L) faced headwinds. Meanwhile, HCA's (HCA) profits beat expectations by a very large margin. Now that the fog of earnings has dissipated, each one of these companies offers [...]

Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE: YUM) today (Monday) reported fourth-quarter earnings that beat The Street, highlighting the impact a strong emerging market presence can have on soaring profits. The quick-service restaurant business that owns KFC, Taco Bell and Pizza Hut chains saw quarterly profit rise 34% to 75 cents a share. Revenue for the quarter climbed 15% to $4.11 billion. Yum's results beat Wall Street's expectations of 74 cents a share and a 13.1% revenue increase to $4.03...

There is perhaps nothing more ubiquitous in America than McDonald's (NYSE: MCD). The fast food giant has restaurants it seems in virtually every town and city in the country. One of McDonald's rivals, Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM), dreams one day of having a restaurant in every town across the country. Yum Brands owns a number of fast food brands including KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. But the country Yum management is dreaming about is not the United States where the company continues to...

The fast-food industry is somewhat impervious to recessions, making stock market investments in these companies a safer haven for investors

A healthy amount of fear is slowly creeping back into the markets today. Stocks are firmly in the red for the first time since the post-Thanksgiving rally began. The indexes aren’t off by much- but it’s enough to slow the torrid rally that has lifted equities for the past two weeks. Pullbacks like this one can [...]

Stock Performance: Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) plunged by 0.07% and closed at $56.25 whereas overall traded volume stood at 2.95 million shares for the last Friday closing day as compare to its average volume stood at 4.23 million. The RSI value of 63.77 times depicts that the current share value is in overbought level. The share [...]

Louisville, Kentucky-based Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) recently announced that its board has approved the share repurchase of an additional $750 million. The company has been consistently enhancing shareholders’ returns. The world’s largest restaurant company will buy back shares over the next 18 months. The owner of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell chains currently has $250 [...]

Yum! Brands, Inc., known for KFC and Pizza Hut fast-food, won approval by China's Ministry of Commerce to buy Mongolian hot-pot seller Little Sheep Group Ltd...Yum! Increases China Exposure... >>

Anti-monopoly regulators are turning Yum! Brands Inc.’s acquisition of a chain of Mongolian hot-pot restaurants into the most profitable bet inChina. Little Sheep Group Ltd. (968) has tumbled after saying last week that China’s Ministry of Commerce extended a review of Yum’s HK$4.4 billion ($573 million) takeover by two months. Little Sheep, which rose to within 25 [...]

Fresh off its decision to build its own LTE network, [company id="s"] reported its Q3 earnings this morning.  Revenues of $8.33B were slightly on the light side, while loss per share of $0.10 was better than expected.  Their cash levels checked in at $4B, enough to make good progress on that LTE buildout assuming they [...]

Go into a Taco Bell, or a KFC, or a Pizza Hut, and a diner will be eating food from the plates of Yum! Brands Inc (YUM).

It was another seesaw day in the market, but for a second-consecutive day, stocks finished solidly to the upside. While certainly not great, the economic data was once again largely better than expected and an indication that the U.S. economy is not suddenly heading towards a steep recessionary cliff. A report from London's [...]

Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) today reported results for the third quarter ended September 3, 2011 including EPS of $0.83, excluding Special Items. After a Special Items loss of $0.03, reported EPS was $0.80. As a result of strong performance in China and other emerging markets, Yum! reconfirms full year EPS growth forecast of at least 12%, excluding special items. THIRD-QUARTER HIGHLIGHTS Operating profit grew 7% in China and 3% at Yum! Restaurants International...

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Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM) has finally found the right candidate for the sale of its brands –– Long John Silver’s and A&W. The company recently inked definitive agreements with two separate buyers led by key franchisee leaders for these divestitures. The deal is expected to close in the fourth quarter of 2011 and have no [...]

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Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) has been recognized by Black Enterprise’s "40 Best Companies for Diversity" list for seventh consecutive year.Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) Gets Diversity AwardYum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM), the world's largest restaurant company and parent of KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell, has been named by Black enterprise magazine's "40 Best Companies for Diversity" [...]

Stocks stopped a three-day slide, but ended well off the highs on Wednesday as investors took the suggestion of further Federal Reserve stimulus as a mixed blessing. Stock index futures dropped after Moody's Investors Service said it may cut the United States' triple-A rating due to the rising chance its debt ceiling [...]

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Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) is scheduled to release its second-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday, July 13, 2011. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report earnings of 61 cents per share on revenue of $2.70 billion. In the year ago period, the company reported earnings of 58 cents per share on revenue of $2.57 billion. YUM! Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a quick service restaurant company worldwide. Through the five concepts of...

We maintain our Neutral rating on Yum! Brands Inc. (YUM). While we are optimistic on the company’s lucrative China division and solid unit growth, negative impact from Taco Bell U.S. as well as commodity inflation compel us to remain on the sidelines. We see the company’s overseas expansion as one of its key growth drivers. Moreover, [...]

Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) is soon to just be Wendy’s again, sort of.  The company has been exploring alternatives to try to unlock the value of the two unsuccessfully merged Wendy’s and Arby’s brands and there is now...

Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM) is just one U.S. company that is realizing the potential of overseas growth, as emerging middle classes are rising. The company has recently expanded in China and India, with double digit growth spurring on further plans. Yum is ...

Fast-food restaurant owner Yum Brands is offering to buy most of the remaining shares of Chinese hot pot chain Little Sheep. Restaurant growth overseas, particularly in China, has been a key driver for Yum's profit growth. The Louisville, Kentucky-based operator of the Taco Bell and KFC chains is offering 6.50 Hong Kong dollars (83 cents) per share [...]

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Restaurant giant Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) has made a preliminary offer to acquire China’s Little Sheep Group Ltd. and its 300 or so stores in China, the US, and Japan. Yum already owns 27.2% of Little Sheep Group. The preliminary offer for L...

Earnings season is in full swing. Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) easily topped expectations. It sold nearly 19 million iPhones in the first three months of the year. That's a 113% jump from a year ago. About 4.7 million iPads were sold in a quarter where a new iPad went on sale. There's some speculation supply issues may [...]

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) said late Wednesday that its first quarter profit increased to $264 million, or 54 cents a share, from $241 million,or 50 cents a share, in the year-earlier quarter. On an adjusted basis, the company earned 63 cents a share in the latest quarter. Revenue increased 3% to $2.43 billion from $2.34 billion. Analysts, on average, expected the company to report earnings of 64 cents per share on revenue of $2.40 billion. Worldwide operating profit grew 5%, prior...

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) is scheduled to release its first-quarter earnings after the closing bell on Wednesday, April 20, 2011. Analysts, on average, expect the company to report earnings of 64 cents per share on revenue of $2.40 billion. In the year ago period, the company reported earnings of 59 cents per share on revenue of $2.34 billion. YUM! Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a quick service restaurant company worldwide. Through the five concepts of...

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