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

Yum Brands filings provide 17 years of Gross Margin readings, the most recent being 67.59% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Gross Margin fell 163.0% to 67.59% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 69.78%, a 213.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 69.77%, down 215.0% from a year prior.
  • Gross Margin hit 67.59% in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, down from 70.34% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Gross Margin ranged from a high of 75.5% in Q1 2023 to a low of 67.59% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Gross Margin over the past 5 years was 73.8% (2021), compared with a mean of 73.1%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Gross Margin: surged 310bps in 2021 and later plummeted -450bps in 2024.
  • Yum Brands' Gross Margin stood at 73.81% in 2021, then increased by 0bps to 73.95% in 2022, then dropped by 0bps to 73.72% in 2023, then fell by -6bps to 69.22% in 2024, then dropped by -2bps to 67.59% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Gross Margin were 67.59% (Q4 2025), 70.34% (Q3 2025), and 71.03% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.