Yum! Brands (YUM) Reports Q3: Everything You Need To Know Ahead Of Earnings

Fast-food company Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) will be announcing earnings results this Tuesday before the bell. Here’s what to look for.

Yum! Brands met analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.93 billion, up 9.6% year on year. It was a mixed quarter for the company, with a slight miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Yum! Brands’s revenue to grow 9.7% year on year to $2.00 billion, improving from the 6.9% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.48 per share.Yum! Brands Total Revenue

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings.

Looking at Yum! Brands’s peers in the traditional fast food segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Restaurant Brands delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.9%, beating analysts’ expectations by 2.4%, and Domino's reported revenues up 6.2%, topping estimates by 0.9%. Restaurant Brands’s stock price was unchanged after the resultswhile Domino's was up 2.2%.

Read our full analysis of Restaurant Brands’s results here and Domino’s results here.

Debates around the economy’s health and the impact of potential tariffs and corporate tax cuts have caused much uncertainty in 2025. While some of the traditional fast food stocks have shown solid performance in this choppy environment, the group has generally underperformed, with share prices down 6.1% on average over the last month. Yum! Brands is down 7.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $161.36 (compared to the current share price of $137.90).

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