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McDonalds vs Yum Brands

MCD and YUM side by side, both in eating and drinking places. Figures are trailing twelve months unless noted, from SEC filings and end-of-day prices.

How MCD and YUM compare

Yum Brands is the larger company, worth 230110 times as much as McDonalds ($42.4B against $184K).

Yum Brands grew revenue faster over the last twelve months (10.3% versus 6.3% for McDonalds).

McDonalds keeps more of each dollar of sales as profit, with a net margin of 31.7% compared with 25.4% at Yum Brands.

Both pay dividends: McDonalds yields 2.9% and Yum Brands 1.9%.

McDonalds scores higher on the StockData Score (17 against 13 for Yum Brands), which adds up 30 checks on valuation, growth, past performance, financial health and dividends.

Key numbers

A dot marks the better figure where higher or lower is clearly better.

MetricMCDYUM
Size and price
Market cap$184K$42.4B
Share price$258.12$155.40
Change, 1 year−14.6%11.6%
Change, 5 years1.3%22.7%
Beta (5Y)0.480.52
Employees150K49K
StockData Score
Total score17 (better)13
Valuation score44
Growth score22
Performance score44
Health score3 (better)0
Dividend score4 (better)3
Valuation
P/E–19.6×
P/S0.0× (better)4.9×
EV/EBITDA2.9× (better)19.3×
P/FCF0.0× (better)25.3×
PEG–2.93
FCF yield4211120% (better)4.0%
Fair value$158484000.00$160.79
Margin of safety100.0% (better)3.4%
Growth
Revenue growth (TTM)6.3%10.3% (better)
Revenue growth, 5Y average7.0%7.8% (better)
Net income growth (TTM)4.7%54.8% (better)
EPS growth (TTM)–56.9%
EPS growth, 5Y average13.6% (better)13.6%
Profitability
Gross margin–68.1%
Operating margin46.2% (better)31.0%
Net margin31.7% (better)25.4%
FCF margin28.0% (better)19.3%
Return on invested capital27.1%48.3% (better)
Financial health
Net debt / EBITDA2.94 (better)4.91
Interest coverage7.9×–
Current ratio1.08 (better)0.59
Altman Z-score2.86 (better)2.30
Piotroski F-score7 (better)6
Dividends and buybacks
Dividend yield2.9% (better)1.9%
Payout ratio59.5%36.4%
Years of dividend growth16 (better)8
Dividend growth, 5Y average7.3%8.6% (better)
Buyback yield1262090% (better)2.1%
Shareholder yield1262090% (better)4.0%
Ownership
Held by institutions74.6%89.5%
Held by insiders0.03%0.15%
Insider net buying, 12 months−$40.5M−$13.2M (better)
Superinvestors holding33
Short interest, % of float2.0%4.6%

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