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Company snapshot — Yum China Holdings Inc

YUMC in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Yum China owns, runs and franchises restaurants across China under KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Lavazza, Little Sheep and Huang Ji Huang, plus online delivery. It reports through KFC, Pizza Hut and All Other segments and is headquartered in Shanghai.
Where it sits in the stack
Yum China carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices; it sits in the diary's Consumer Cyclical sleeve, grouped with US-listed restaurant and consumer names rather than any part of the AI build-out.
Who it is priced against
Closelook's peer group places it with US Consumer Cyclical names scored in the same sector and country, including Maplebear, Deckers Outdoor, Brinker International, SharkNinja and Lululemon; the market also compares it with McDonald's on China exposure.
Why Closelook tracks it
It carries a Closelook score with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest, though it holds no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices and has drawn no mentions in the dailies.
What the diary watches
The diary watches whether momentum recovers from its current weak reading and whether the gap to the 50-day and 200-day levels narrows or widens.

Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC) trades on US exchanges, classified under Consumer Cyclical.

The Closelook company score reads 53/100 composite (momentum 23, quality 46, valuation 69) across 7 modules — the full breakdown, chart structure and analog history load live above.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for YUMC, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Restaurants · US · 8 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Restaurants · US

Names in the same industry from the Closelook universe; scored names rank on their Closelook score, the rest on trend state.

Compared against YUMC on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.70%, quarterly · buybacks 1.14 bn USD in FY2025

Dividends and capital return

What YUMC pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 1.11 USD per share · a 2.70% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +53.0% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 0.73 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.29 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-08-27
  • By calendar year 2025: 0.97 USD (partial) · 2026: 0.87 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2025-03-06
  • Dividends paid, FY2025 353 m USD 41% of earnings
  • Buybacks, FY2025 1.14 bn USD 8.1% of today's market value
  • Share count −7.9% in FY2025 42 m USD of stock-based compensation in the year
  • Capital returned 1.50 bn USD · 178% of free cash flow dividends and buybacks together, against the year’s free cash flow

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 4 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sector × region …

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sector × region Consumer discretionary in US: −1.7% week · −6.4% month · −5.0% quarter · −4.2% yearThe Sector Engine cell this name lives in, from XLY.US; the 11 × 4 matrix shows where its sector is being bought and where it is being sold. Sector Engine → 2026-09-20
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is Yum China Holdings Inc (YUMC)?

Yum China Holdings Inc trades as YUMC on the US exchange (US) and is classified under Consumer Cyclical in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is YUMC in a Closelook index?

Not currently — Yum China Holdings Inc is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

What is Yum China Holdings Inc's Closelook composite score?

53 out of 100, with momentum 23, quality 46 and valuation 69 sub-scores, as of 2026-09-19. Scores are Closelook's own research readings, not ratings or investment advice.

Where does YUMC trade against its moving averages?

Downtrend stack: Trades -8.7% vs the 50-day and -12.5% vs the 200-day average, 28.3% below the 52-week high and +3% off the 52-week low; a death cross printed 74 sessions ago. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does Yum China Holdings Inc do?

Yum China owns, runs and franchises restaurants across China under KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, Lavazza, Little Sheep and Huang Ji Huang, plus online delivery. It reports through KFC, Pizza Hut and All Other segments and is headquartered in Shanghai. Closelook's peer group places it with US Consumer Cyclical names scored in the same sector and country, including Maplebear, Deckers Outdoor, Brinker International, SharkNinja and Lululemon; the market also compares it with McDonald's on China exposure.

Where does Yum China Holdings Inc sit in the AI build-out?

Yum China carries no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices; it sits in the diary's Consumer Cyclical sleeve, grouped with US-listed restaurant and consumer names rather than any part of the AI build-out. It carries a Closelook score with valuation the strongest module and momentum the weakest, though it holds no seat in our Rubin or Halo indices and has drawn no mentions in the dailies.

Does Yum China Holdings Inc pay a dividend?

Yum China Holdings Inc has paid 1.11 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.70% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.29 USD on 2026-08-27. In fiscal 2025 the company paid 353 m USD in dividends and bought back 1.14 bn USD of its own shares, 178% of that year’s free cash flow. The share count fell 7.9% over the fiscal year. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for YUMC, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Related in the Closelook universe

then Restaurants, then Consumer Cyclical. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.