Yum China Holdings Inc. (NYSE:YUMC) currently has a daily average trading volume of 1.84M but it saw 1470013 shares traded on Thursday. With a market cap of 25.03B USD, stock’s current market price of $60.98 came rising about 0.89 while comparing to the previous closing price of $60.44. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $63.06 and as low as $36.05. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $61.49 while lowest mark touched by it was $59.92.
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Taking a look at 20-day trading activity of Yum China Holdings Inc. (YUMC) gives us an average price of $60.17, while its current price level is -3.30% below from 52-week high level whereas it is 69.16% above from lowest level seen by the stock during that period. Simple moving average of 50 days or SMA-50 of the stock’s closing price is $60.06 while that of 200 days or SMA-200 reads an average of $51.50. A closer look into the stock’s movement over the week reveals that its volatility is standing at 2.85% during that period while stretching the period over a month that decreases to 2.56%. It is also necessary to take a look into other indicators of a stock too, to get a better idea about its price movement. And in doing so, we find stock’s 14-day relative strength index (RSI) standing at 53.95 which implies that the stock is in neutral territory.
Yum China Holdings Inc. (YUMC)’s stock is currently under the radar of 28 analysts who are in consensus at a 12-month price target range of between $44.00 and $89.00 for company’s shares. The average price target assigned by the average number of analysts to a stock is a way to gauge worth of any stock in next 52 weeks. And in assigning price target to a stock, some analysts adopt a bearish approach by advocating lower-than-average price target which in this case is $44.00 while some adopt bullish approach by assigning higher-than-average price target which reads the price to top $89.00. Average price target assigned by them is $70.51 which highlights an upside potential of 13.52% for the stock over that period. And to attain the median price target of $71.00 assigned by those analysts, stock has to add about 14.11% of value to its current levels.
Data by FactSet Research shows that 28 analysts have issued their ratings for the stock. 1 of them are in opinions that stock is a Sell, while 8 are advising it as an Overweight. 17 analysts suggested the investors to Buy the stock while 2 advised them to Hold. Recommendations by all of those brokerages imply a consensus rating of Overweight for the stock and that issued by Wall Street to investors is Strong Buy.
Atlantic Equities issued its recommendations for the stock as it initiated the price target for the stock is $72.
Over the week, YUMC’s stock price is moving 5.79% up while it is 0.83% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 11.58% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 54.11%.
The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report in 05/02/2023, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of $0 while estimate for next year EPS is $14.66. For YUMC, analysts are forecasting an EPS-growth rate of 77.90% for current year and estimate for EPS growth in next year is 20.30%. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $89.28 billion for current-quarter revenue.
Currently, Yum China Holdings Inc.’s total number of outstanding shares is 418.00M with 0.19% of that held by the insiders while 84.57% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 8.00% and return on equity (ROE) at 6.70%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 58.63 while having a 25.33 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.52. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 3.93 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.62. Its return on asset (ROA) is 3.70% on average.
As per SEC documents, Invesco Developing Markets Fund sought 30,183,310 of company’s common stock of worth $1.77 billion as per recent closing price of the stock. Invesco Developing Markets Fund is not the only institutional holder which restructured its stake in Yum China Holdings Inc., as Vanguard Emerging Markets Stock I picked 5,834,219 shares of worth $342.64 million to bring its holdings to a total of 46000.0 shares. In the most recent quarter, Government Pension Fund – Global came rising its stake by 38.35% in the company and now holds 5.69 million or 1.36% of the company’s stake having worth of about 334.04 million.
