Yum China Holdings Inc (NYSE: YUMC) is 2.41% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $28.50 and a high of $52.00 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The YUMC stock was last observed hovering at around $49.11 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 0.22%.
Currently trading at $49.33, the stock is 1.23% and 5.17% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 2.48 million and changing 0.45% at the moment leaves the stock 20.08% off its SMA200. YUMC registered 19.59% gain for a year compared to 6-month gain of 44.83%.
The stock witnessed a 2.62% loss in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 1.65%, and is -2.18% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.35% over the week and 2.67% over the month.
Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) has around 350000 employees, a market worth around $18.55B and $11.30B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 21.20 and Fwd P/E is 16.98. Profit margin for the company is 8.06%. Distance from 52-week low is 73.09% and -5.13% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (12.00%).
with sales reaching $3.14B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 9.47% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 5.52% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 6.07% in year-over-year returns.
The shares outstanding are 378.00M, and float is at 362.36M with Short Float at 2.99%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is JPMORGAN CHASE & CO with over 19.62 million shares valued at $605.06 million. The investor’s holdings represent 5.0435 of the YUMC Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is BLACKROCK INC. with 17.37 million shares valued at $535.79 million to account for 4.3325 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are VANGUARD GROUP INC which holds 15.39 million shares representing 3.838 and valued at over $474.64 million, while INVESCO LTD. holds 3.7768 of the shares totaling 15.14 million with a market value of $467.07 million.
Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by Wat Joey, the company’s Chief Executive Officer. SEC filings show that Wat Joey sold 37,252 shares of the company’s common stock on Mar 05 ’25 at a price of $49.71 per share for a total of $1.85 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 0.38 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 17 ’25, Kuai Jeff (General Manager, Pizza Hut) disposed off 3,900 shares at an average price of $48.21 for $0.19 million. The insider now directly holds 0 shares of Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC).
