JPMorgan cuts target for Yum! Brands stock to USD 150.00

Published on 10/02/2026 at 14:35 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWS

JPMorgan cut its target to USD 150.00 on September 29, 2026. Yum! Brands stock stands at EUR 122.43 on October 2, 2026 versus EUR 121.58.

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Yum! Brands stock (ISIN US9884981013) was trading at EUR 122.43 at Lang & Schwarz on October 2, 2026 at 2:31 p.m. CEST, plus 0.70 percent versus the prior close of EUR 121.58. The latest analyst move came from JPMorgan, which cut its Yum! Brands price target from USD 160.00 to USD 150.00 while maintaining an Overweight rating on September 29, 2026, according to MarketBeat.

JPMorgan cuts its valuation case

The revised USD 150.00 target places the emphasis on execution rather than a fresh earnings surprise. Yum! Brands reported USD 2.17 billion of revenue in the second quarter of 2026, up 12.20 percent year over year, while earnings per share reached USD 1.62 against a USD 1.58 consensus estimate, MarketBeat reported.

The earnings comparison is mixed in an important way: earnings per share beat consensus by USD 0.04, but revenue came in below the USD 2.18 billion estimate. That gap helps explain why a strong reported growth rate has not translated into uniformly higher analyst targets.

Growth remains concentrated in key brands

In the second-quarter 2026 earnings call, Yum! Brands said system sales excluding Pizza Hut grew 7.00 percent, supported by 6.00 percent unit growth and 4.00 percent same-store sales growth. The transcript also said core operating profit increased 8.00 percent and Taco Bell U.S. restaurant-level margin expanded to 26.20 percent from a year earlier, according to Yahoo Finance.

The same call identified a counterweight to that growth. Taco Bell U.S. same-store sales were down 2.00 percent quarter to date through July 27, 2026, while management said sales trends were improving. For investors, the contrast between 7.00 percent system sales growth and the Taco Bell setback is central to the next earnings test.

Next earnings arrive November 3

Yum! Brands is scheduled to release third-quarter 2026 results on November 3, 2026, with a conference call the same day, according to the earnings-call transcript carried by Yahoo Finance. The date will put the recovery in Taco Bell U.S. alongside KFC development and digital sales growth under the market microscope.

Yum! Brands operates KFC, Taco Bell, Pizza Hut and The Habit Burger Grill through a largely franchised restaurant model. The company website lists more than 44,000 restaurants in 151 countries and territories, while the finance profile identifies the business as a consumer cyclical company in the restaurants industry.

Yum! Brands stock holds above its prior close

At Lang & Schwarz, Yum! Brands stock was trading at EUR 122.43 on October 2, 2026 at 2:31 p.m. CEST, plus 0.70 percent versus the EUR 121.58 prior close. Its primary listing is on the NYSE, and the latest market capitalization was USD 37.7 billion as of October 1, 2026.

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