A Preview Of Yum Brands's Earnings

On Thursday, July 30, Yum Brands YUM will release its latest earnings report. Benzinga's outlook for Yum Brands is included in the following report.

Earnings and Revenue

Based on management's projections, Yum Brands analysts model for earnings of $0.51 per share on sales of $1.17 billion. Yum Brands EPS in the same period a year ago totaled $0.930. Sales were $1.31 billion. If the company were to report in-line earnings when it publishes results Thursday, earnings would be down 45.16%. Revenue would be down 2.5% from the same quarter last year. Here's how the company's reported EPS has stacked up against analyst estimates in the past:

Stock Performance

Over the past 52-week period, shares of Yum Brands have declined 19.64%.

With these returns, shareholders are likely less than satisfied going into this earnings release.

Don't be surprised to see the stock move on comments made during its conference call. Yum Brands is scheduled to hold the call at 08:15:00 ET and can be accessed here: https://78449.choruscall.com/dataconf/productusers/yum/mediaframe/39083/indexr.html