Yum! Brands forward PE YUM

Share price divided by analysts' consensus earnings for the next twelve months, since 1997.

Today, Oct 23, 2026: 22.4×
10-year median: 25.7×
Against its 10-year history: 3rd; percentile: 0 is its lowest day, 100 its highest
10-year range: 18.2× to 36.2×
Peer median: 20.3×

Yum! Brands' forward PE is 22.4× as of Oct 23, 2026.

That is below its ten-year median of 25.7×, lower than on 97% of days in the last ten years.

Over that time it ranged from 18.2× in Oct 2016 to 36.2× in Sep 2019.

The median for 10 restaurant stocks of a similar size is 20.3×.

Forward PE over time

median 25.7×

The dashed line is the 10-year median and the shaded band the middle half of its days.

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Year by year

Year	End of year	Low	High
2026 so far	22.4×	20.2×	26.5×
2025	24.5×	21.1×	27.1×
2024	23.2×	22.5×	25.6×
2023	24.4×	22.4×	27.8×
2022	26.1×	22.3×	30.8×
2021	31.6×	25.9×	31.6×
2020	27.7×	19.2×	34.8×
2019	32.4×	25.0×	36.2×
2018	25.4×	23.5×	29.0×
2017	27.5×	24.9×	28.1×
2016	26.0×	13.8×	26.4×
2015	16.5×	15.7×	22.2×
2014	17.3×	15.0×	20.0×
2013	16.5×	14.9×	18.7×
2012	16.4×	13.8×	18.7×
2011	13.6×	11.4×	14.5×
2010	13.5×	10.4×	14.1×
2009	11.6×	9.8×	13.7×
2008	12.2×	9.8×	17.3×
2007	16.6×	14.3×	17.9×

Against its peers

Companies in Restaurants nearest Yum! Brands' size, closest first, today.

Company	Forward PE
YUMYum! Brands	22.4×
CMGChipotle Mexican Grill	21.7×
QSRRestaurant Brands International	17.8×
DRIDarden Restaurants	18.5×
YUMCYum China	n/m
SBUXStarbucks	33.8×
ARMKAramark	n/m
TXRHTexas Roadhouse	23.2×
MCDMcDonald's	18.9×
EATBrinker International	n/m
BROSDutch Bros	n/m
Peer median	20.3×

Where Yum! Brands ranks

#24of 40Consumer cyclical stocks with the lowest forward PE

What the forward PE tells you

Price divided by what analysts expect the company to earn over the next twelve months. It answers "what am I paying for next year" instead of last year.

Estimates are opinions. When forward PE is far below trailing PE, analysts expect a big jump in earnings. If that jump slips, the stock was not as cheap as it looked.

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Valuation data, not investment advice. Prices as of Oct 23, 2026. Reported figures come from the company's filings with the SEC.