Yum China Holdings Inc. (NYSE:YUMC) saw an upside of 1.77% to $53.41 after adding $0.93on Wednesday. The 5-day average trading volume is 1,653,521 shares of the company’s common stock. It has gained $54.82 in the past week and touched a new high 1 time within the past 5 days. An average of 1,858,340 shares of the company has been traded in the last 20 days, and the 50-day average volume stands at 1,656,832.
YUMC’s 1-month performance is -8.79% or -$4.89 on its low of $51.10 reached on 08/18/23. The company’s shares have touched a 52-week low of $38.58 and high of $64.70, with the stock’s rally to the 52-week high happening on 04/12/23. YTD, YUMC has lost -2.27% or -$1.28 and has reached a new high 14 times. However, the current price is down -17.45% from the 52-week high price.
Insider Transactions
YUMC stock investors last saw insider trading activity on May 11.Wat Joey (Chief Executive Officer) most recently sold 95,171 shares at $61.94 per share on May 11. This transaction cost the insider $5,894,521. Chief Executive Officer, Wat Joey, sold 2,800 shares at a price of $61.94 on May 10. Then, on May 09, Director BASSI PETER A sold 17,500 shares at a price of $60.96 per share. This transaction amounted to $1,066,852.
Valuation Metrics
YUMC stock has a beta of 0.58. Moving on to other valuation ratios, the trailing price-to-sales (P/S) ratio is 2.22 while the price-to-book (PB) in the most recent quarter is 3.41, with the price to cash flow ratio at 21.56.
Yum China Holdings Inc.’s quick ratio for the period ended June 29 was 1.50, with the current ratio over the same period at 1.70. As well, the company’s long term debt to equity for the quarter ending June 29 was 0.01, while the total debt to equity was 0.01. In terms of profitability, the gross margin trailing 12 months is 43.30%. The trailing 12-month EBITDA margin is 19.48% while for the period ending June 29, Yum China Holdings Inc.’s operating margin was 10.40%. The firm’s gross profit as reported stood at $1.74 billion against revenue of $9.57 billion.
Earnings Surprise
For the quarterly period ending June 29 this year, Net income and sales went down compared to those figures reported in the previous quarter. Net income grew 57.87% to $197.0 million, while revenue of $289.0 million was -46.7% off the previous quarter. Analysts expected YUMC to announce $0.46 per share in earnings in its latest quarter, but it posted $0.47, representing a 2.20% surprise. EBITDA for the quarter stood at more than $369.0 million. YUMC stock balance sheet for the quarter ending June 29 shows that total liabilities totaled 4.47 billion, with total debt at $2.22 billion. Shareholders hold equity totaling $416.86 million.
Let’s look briefly at Yum China Holdings Inc. (YUMC) price momentum from a technical analysis perspective. The 9-day relative strength index as at close on 22 August was 36.75% to suggest the stock is trending Neutral, with historical volatility in this time period at 20.75%.
The stock’s 5-day moving average is $53.20, reflecting a -0.93% or -$0.50 change from its current price. YUMC is currently trading -11.06% above its 20-day SMA, -15.27% above its 100-day SMA. However, the stock’s current price level is away from the SMA50 by -10.35% and SMA200 by+12.88%.
Stochastic %K and %D was 26.36% and 22.68% and the average true range (ATR) pointed at 1.39. The RSI (14) points at 38.06%, while the 14-day stochastic is at 32.11% with the period’s ATR at 1.42. The stock’s 9-day MACD Oscillator is pointing at -0.92 and -1.84 on the 14-day charts.
Analyst Ratings
In the most recent analyst report for Yum China Holdings Inc. (NYSE: YUMC), Jefferies downgraded it to a Hold rating. They previously had a Buy rating on the stock.
