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Yum! Brands (YUM) is back in focus after being flagged as a cash producing stock, with investors weighing its expansion plans, cost controls, and free cash flow against recent share price weakness. Recent trading tells a different story to Yum! Brands’ cash generation. The share price has slipped around 11% over the past month and roughly 17% over the last quarter, while the 1-year total shareholder return is down about 9%. However, the 3 and 5-year total returns remain positive, suggesting...

The fried chicken chain operates more than 800 stores across 17 states.

New COO Shauna McKenzie-Lee is leveraging her Starbucks experience to ensure guests are at the center of the fast-casual burger chain’s operating system.

Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG) trades at 28.7 times its past year's earnings, the second-highest price-to-earnings ratio among six large restaurant chains. A price that high makes sense only if Chipotle grows faster or earns more than the chains priced below it. So does Chipotle deliver enough to be worth more than its rivals.

While the S&P 500 (^GSPC) includes industry leaders, not every stock in the index is a winner. Some companies are past their prime, weighed down by poor execution, weak financials, or structural headwinds.

Dutch Bros (BROS) stock lost 47% over the past three months, while the S&P 500 gained 5.6% (as of September 25, 2026). The shares still cost 55.2 times the coffee chain's yearly profit, against 22.1 times for the S&P 500. The question now is how much lower Dutch Bros stock could go if the whole market falls too.

Chipotle shares rise after unveiling the return, for a limited time, of its classic margaritas, which were discontinued in 2019.

The fact Yum! Brands divested Pizza Hut earlier this month, splitting the chain from KFC for the first time in nearly four decades, should signal the company is prepared to make bold moves, CFO Ranjith Roy said. Could that include adding another concept to accompany the chicken giant, Taco Bell, and fast casual Habit Burger […]

McDonald's just raised its dividend again even as its stock hit a multiyear low and U.S. foot traffic turned negative. The reason has almost nothing to do with selling burgers.

While strong cash flow is a key indicator of stability, it doesn’t always translate to superior returns. Some cash-heavy businesses struggle with inefficient spending, slowing demand, or weak competitive positioning.

Yum! Brands (NYSE:YUM) has backed a new KFC "Open House" restaurant concept in Texas that functions as a live test kitchen. The Open House site pilots table service for dine in guests alongside a dedicated mobile order lane for faster pick ups. KFC is using the location to trial expanded menu options under its broader "Kentucky Fried comeback" effort before any wider U.S. rollout. The KFC Open House experiment in Texas is only one piece of the wider story at Yum! Brands today. Take a look at...

Yum! Brands has seen its share price drift lower this year even as the business leans into new concepts at KFC and works through a traffic setback at Taco Bell, which puts the spotlight firmly on what investors are paying for its cash flows. With the stock last closing at US$138.63, the key issue is whether that market price lines up with what a Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) view of the company’s future cash generation suggests. Over the past 5 years the stock has returned 23.3%, which raises...

Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) appointed Sabir Sami to its Board of Directors, effective immediately. Sami previously held senior leadership roles at Yum! Brands, including positions across major global quick service restaurant chains. His background includes international market oversight and operational leadership across multiple regions for franchise-driven restaurant systems. The addition of Sabir Sami to Chipotle's board is only one factor that matters for the business. Check out 2...

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) owns KFC and Taco Bell. Restaurant Brands International Inc. (NYSE:QSR) owns Burger King, Popeyes, and Tim Hortons. Both collect royalties from franchisees rather than running the restaurants themselves. Yum is the larger of the two at roughly $38 billion against about $25 billion, and both trade near eighteen times their past […]

If you own Starbucks (SBUX), the headline revenue number can mislead you. Revenue fell 1.4% from a year earlier in the latest quarter, its only drop in four quarters, but Starbucks said the decline came mainly from turning its China stores into a licensed joint venture. Comparable store sales rose 7.9%, though management said close to half of that came from store closures, sales transfers, and delivery. That matters because the stock costs far more per dollar of profit than the S&P 500. The ques

KFC — one of the chains owned by Yum! Brands (YUM) — is opening a new test kitchen in Texas, where it will experiment with new menu items. KFC US President Catherine Tan-Gillespie sits down with Yahoo Finance's Brooke DiPalma to discuss the brand's "Kentucky Fried comeback."

McDonald's (MCD) has a pricing problem in the United States, its second-largest business. Its value menu of 10 items for under $3 each has not delivered what management expected. The shares lost 19.3% over the past year (as of September 23, 2026), while the S&P 500 returned 13%. The fix is not settled, because it depends on franchisees charging the prices McDonald's recommends.

New restaurants give McDonald's (MCD) more growth than its weak U.S. results suggest. Value meals and slow visits are part of the story, but not all of it. McDonald's shares fell 4.8% on September 23, the day the company laid out a new plan at its Investor Day. The price appears to reflect the U.S. troubles and the plan's cost. So how much are the new restaurants actually adding.