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Yum Brands (YUM) FCF Payout Ratio (2016 - 2025)

Yum Brands filings provide 17 years of FCF Payout Ratio readings, the most recent being 0.41 for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Payout Ratio fell 10.62% to 0.41 in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 0.48, a 8.23% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 0.48, down 8.58% from a year prior.
  • FCF Payout Ratio hit 0.41 in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, down from 0.44 in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Payout Ratio ranged from a high of 0.78 in Q1 2022 to a low of 0.32 in Q3 2021.
  • Median FCF Payout Ratio over the past 5 years was 0.49 (2022), compared with a mean of 0.52.
  • Biggest five-year swings in FCF Payout Ratio: plummeted 76.45% in 2021 and later skyrocketed 110.88% in 2022.
  • Yum Brands' FCF Payout Ratio stood at 0.46 in 2021, then grew by 3.85% to 0.48 in 2022, then increased by 4.13% to 0.5 in 2023, then fell by 7.07% to 0.46 in 2024, then decreased by 10.62% to 0.41 in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for FCF Payout Ratio were 0.41 (Q4 2025), 0.44 (Q3 2025), and 0.53 (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.