加拿大皇家銀行助推百勝！品牌（紐約證券交易所代碼：YUM）的目標價為142.00美元

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM – Get Rating) had its price target lifted by Royal Bank of Canada from $137.00 to $142.00 in a research report sent to investors on Thursday, The Fly reports. They currently have a sector perform rating on the restaurant operator's stock.

A number of other equities analysts have also weighed in on the stock. Cowen reiterated an outperform rating and issued a $155.00 price target on shares of Yum! Brands in a research report on Wednesday, February 8th. Cowen boosted their target price on shares of Yum! Brands from $130.00 to $155.00 and gave the stock an outperform rating in a report on Monday, December 5th. Wells Fargo & Company began coverage on shares of Yum! Brands in a report on Monday, January 23rd. They issued an overweight rating and a $145.00 target price on the stock. Robert W. Baird boosted their target price on shares of Yum! Brands from $146.00 to $155.00 in a report on Wednesday, December 14th. Finally, Argus raised shares of Yum! Brands from a hold rating to a buy rating and set a $142.00 target price on the stock in a report on Wednesday, November 23rd. Five research analysts have rated the stock with a hold rating and nine have assigned a buy rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the company has a consensus rating of Moderate Buy and an average target price of $145.38.

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Yum! Brands Price Performance

YUM opened at $131.31 on Thursday. The firm has a market cap of $36.99 billion, a P/E ratio of 28.80, a PEG ratio of 2.23 and a beta of 0.98. Yum! Brands has a 1-year low of $103.96 and a 1-year high of $133.59. The company has a 50 day simple moving average of $129.14 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $120.93.

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM – Get Rating) last posted its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February 8th. The restaurant operator reported $1.31 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.26 by $0.05. The business had revenue of $2.04 billion during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $1.92 billion. Yum! Brands had a net margin of 19.37% and a negative return on equity of 15.16%. The company's revenue was up 8.0% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted $1.02 earnings per share. Equities analysts anticipate that Yum! Brands will post 5.1 earnings per share for the current year.

Yum! Brands Increases Dividend

The company also recently declared a quarterly dividend, which will be paid on Friday, March 10th. Investors of record on Wednesday, February 22nd will be paid a dividend of $0.605 per share. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, February 21st. This is a boost from Yum! Brands's previous quarterly dividend of $0.57. This represents a $2.42 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.84%. Yum! Brands's payout ratio is currently 53.07%.

Insider Buying and Selling

In other Yum! Brands news, CEO David W. Gibbs sold 4,259 shares of the business's stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, December 20th. The stock was sold at an average price of $128.52, for a total transaction of $547,366.68. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief executive officer now owns 31,715 shares in the company, valued at $4,076,011.80. The sale was disclosed in a document filed with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which can be accessed through this link. 0.37% of the stock is currently owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently modified their holdings of the business. U.S. Capital Wealth Advisors LLC purchased a new position in shares of Yum! Brands during the fourth quarter valued at approximately $26,000. Bell Investment Advisors Inc boosted its position in shares of Yum! Brands by 127.7% during the fourth quarter. Bell Investment Advisors Inc now owns 214 shares of the restaurant operator's stock valued at $27,000 after buying an additional 120 shares during the period. Dupont Capital Management Corp purchased a new stake in shares of Yum! Brands in the fourth quarter valued at approximately $29,000. Investors Asset Management of Georgia Inc. GA ADV purchased a new stake in shares of Yum! Brands in the second quarter valued at approximately $30,000. Finally, Sugarloaf Wealth Management LLC boosted its holdings in shares of Yum! Brands by 396.6% in the third quarter. Sugarloaf Wealth Management LLC now owns 288 shares of the restaurant operator's stock valued at $31,000 after purchasing an additional 230 shares during the period. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 77.54% of the company's stock.

About Yum! Brands

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Yum! Brands, Inc operates as a service restaurant company. The firm engages in the development, operation, franchise, and licenses of a system of restaurants. It operates through the following segments: KFC Division, Pizza Hut Division, Taco Bell Division, and Habit Burger Grill Division. The KFC Division segment consists of all operations of the KFC concept.

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