YUMC vs. YUM, QSR, DRI, WING, TXRH, CAVA, ARMK, MAIN, SG, and EAT
Should you be buying Yum China stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of Yum China include Yum! Brands (YUM), Restaurant Brands International (QSR), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Wingstop (WING), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), CAVA Group (CAVA), Aramark (ARMK), Main Street Capital (MAIN), Sweetgreen (SG), and Brinker International (EAT). These companies are all part of the "eating places" industry.
Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) and Yum China (NYSE:YUMC) are both large-cap retail/wholesale companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, profitability, dividends, risk, media sentiment, earnings and community ranking.
Yum! Brands received 680 more outperform votes than Yum China when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 65.30% of users gave Yum! Brands an outperform vote while only 64.19% of users gave Yum China an outperform vote.
82.4% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 85.6% of Yum China shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.3% of Yum! Brands shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 0.3% of Yum China shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.
Yum! Brands has a net margin of 22.92% compared to Yum! Brands' net margin of 7.49%. Yum! Brands' return on equity of 11.90% beat Yum China's return on equity.
Yum! Brands has a beta of 1.07, meaning that its stock price is 7% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Yum China has a beta of 0.46, meaning that its stock price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500.
Yum! Brands presently has a consensus target price of $143.27, indicating a potential upside of 4.25%. Yum China has a consensus target price of $54.65, indicating a potential upside of 52.82%. Given Yum! Brands' stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, analysts clearly believe Yum China is more favorable than Yum! Brands.
In the previous week, Yum! Brands had 4 more articles in the media than Yum China. MarketBeat recorded 10 mentions for Yum! Brands and 6 mentions for Yum China. Yum! Brands' average media sentiment score of 0.82 beat Yum China's score of 0.71 indicating that Yum China is being referred to more favorably in the news media.
Yum! Brands pays an annual dividend of $2.68 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.0%. Yum China pays an annual dividend of $0.64 per share and has a dividend yield of 1.8%. Yum! Brands pays out 47.5% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Yum China pays out 32.2% of its earnings in the form of a dividend. Both companies have healthy payout ratios and should be able to cover their dividend payments with earnings for the next several years. Yum! Brands has raised its dividend for 7 consecutive years and Yum China has raised its dividend for 4 consecutive years. Yum! Brands is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and longer track record of dividend growth.
Yum! Brands has higher earnings, but lower revenue than Yum China. Yum China is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Yum! Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.
Summary
Yum! Brands beats Yum China on 14 of the 21 factors compared between the two stocks.
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