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Yum Brands (YUM) EBIT Margin (2016 - 2025)

Yum Brands filings provide 17 years of EBIT Margin readings, the most recent being 29.34% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, EBIT Margin rose 153.0% to 29.34% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 31.34%, a 50.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 31.34%, down 50.0% from a year prior.
  • EBIT Margin hit 29.34% in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, down from 33.65% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, EBIT Margin ranged from a high of 36.54% in Q1 2021 to a low of 26.56% in Q4 2021.
  • Median EBIT Margin over the past 5 years was 32.86% (2021), compared with a mean of 32.3%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in EBIT Margin: soared 1675bps in 2021 and later tumbled -364bps in 2022.
  • Yum Brands' EBIT Margin stood at 26.56% in 2021, then rose by 8bps to 28.63% in 2022, then increased by 4bps to 29.91% in 2023, then decreased by -7bps to 27.82% in 2024, then grew by 5bps to 29.34% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for EBIT Margin were 29.34% (Q4 2025), 33.65% (Q3 2025), and 32.18% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.