Yum China Boosts Stock Buyback Program

by Shivani Kumaresan, Benzinga Staff Writer

March 17, 2022 6:27 AM | 1 min read |

Yum China Holdings Inc YUMC Board of Directors has increased the company's share repurchase authorization by $1 billion to about $2.4 billion.
The increase brings the total remaining authorization to approximately $1.4 billion. The company repurchased about 24 million shares of common stock for $971 million from 2017 to March 16, 2022.
"From 2017 to 2021, we generated operating cash flow of $5.6 billion and free cash flow of $3.2 billion," said CEO Joey Wat.
Yum China held ~ $4 billion in cash and equivalents as of December 31, 2021.
Price Action: YUMC shares are trading lower by 0.67% at $43.03 in premarket on the last check Thursday.

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