Short interest in Yum Brands Inc (NYSE:YUM) decreased during the last reporting period, falling from 7.23M to 6.51M. This put 2.33% of the company's publicly available shares short.

Short interest for Yum Brands gives investors a sense of the degree to which investors are betting on the decline of Yum Brands's stock. Short interest data is updated every two weeks.

Based on the recent average volume of 1.43M shares traded per day, it would take 4.55 day(s) for holders of this short interest to close out their positions without sending the stock sharply higher.