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Yum Brands (YUM) Shares Repurchased (2016 - 2025)

Yum Brands filings provide 16 years of Shares Repurchased readings, the most recent being $178.0 million for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, Shares Repurchased rose 56.14% to $178.0 million in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was $552.0 million, a 25.17% increase, with the full-year FY2025 number at $552.0 million, up 25.17% from a year prior.
  • Shares Repurchased hit $178.0 million in Q4 2025 for Yum Brands, up from $36.0 million in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, Shares Repurchased ranged from a high of $734.0 million in Q4 2021 to a low of $36.0 million in Q3 2025.
  • Median Shares Repurchased over the past 5 years was $221.5 million (2022), compared with a mean of $239.6 million.
  • Biggest five-year swings in Shares Repurchased: skyrocketed 207.11% in 2021 and later tumbled 87.0% in 2025.
  • Yum Brands' Shares Repurchased stood at $734.0 million in 2021, then plummeted by 33.79% to $486.0 million in 2022, then tumbled by 89.71% to $50.0 million in 2023, then skyrocketed by 128.0% to $114.0 million in 2024, then soared by 56.14% to $178.0 million in 2025.
  • The last three reported values for Shares Repurchased were $178.0 million (Q4 2025), $36.0 million (Q3 2025), and $109.0 million (Q2 2025) per Business Quant data.