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Yum Brands (YUM) Return on Capital Employed (2016 - 2025)

Yum Brands filings provide 17 years of Return on Capital Employed readings, the most recent being 41.66% for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Return on Capital Employed fell 347.0% to 41.66% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 41.66%, a 347.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 43.29%, down 283.0% from a year prior.
  • Return on Capital Employed hit 41.66% in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, down from 43.33% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Return on Capital Employed ranged from a high of 53.65% in Q2 2025 to a low of 41.66% in Q4 2025.
  • Median Return on Capital Employed over the past 5 years was 45.64% (2022), compared with a mean of 47.04%.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Return on Capital Employed: surged 1806bps in 2021 and later plummeted -640bps in 2024.
  • Yum Brands' Return on Capital Employed stood at 44.77% in 2021, then rose by 18bps to 52.73% in 2022, then decreased by -10bps to 47.56% in 2023, then dropped by -5bps to 45.13% in 2024, then dropped by -8bps to 41.66% in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Return on Capital Employed were 41.66% (Q4 2025), 43.33% (Q3 2025), and 53.65% (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.