Fast-food company Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) will be reporting results tomorrow morning. Here’s what investors should know.
Yum! Brands missed analysts’ revenue expectations by 3.8% last quarter, reporting revenues of $1.83 billion, up 6.9% year on year. It was a softer quarter for the company, with a miss of analysts’ same-store sales estimates and a slight miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates.
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This quarter, analysts are expecting Yum! Brands’s revenue to grow 15.5% year on year to $2.35 billion, improving from its flat revenue in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $1.60 per share.
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 restaurants segment, some have already reported their Q4 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Starbucks posted flat year-on-year revenue, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.9%, and Brinker International reported revenues up 26.5%, topping estimates by 9.6%. Starbucks traded up 8.2% following the results while Brinker International was also up 18%.
Read our full analysis of Starbucks’s results here and Brinker International’s results here.
There has been positive sentiment among investors in the restaurants segment, with share prices up 11.7% on average over the last month. Yum! Brands is up 2.3% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $142.03 (compared to the current share price of $131.47).
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