This restaurant chain offers the worst bang for your buck, customers say

When it comes to dining out, customers say Shake Shack SHAK, +0.09% has gotten far too pricey for what it’s dishing out. And that’s despite the fact that it’s even not the most expensive of the fast-c...

Prudential, Corning, and 8 More Companies That Raised Their Stock Dividends

Prudential Financial, Phillips 66 Tractor Supply and Interpublic were among the various large companies that announced dividend increases this week. It continues to be a busy period for such moves as ...

McDonald’s, Taco Bell owner Yum rule amid high inflation

A girl waiting in line to pick up an order at a McDonald’s restaurant. Oleksii Chumachenko | SOPA Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Fast-food chains are looking like the big winners in the fou...

Yum China Provides A Look At China’s Consumer, Tik Tok Flip Flops On Food Delivery Launch

China Last Night KraneShares Key News Asian equities were largely higher overnight as Taiwan and South Korea outperformed while China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, and Thailand posted declines. Unfortu...

Yum! Brands Q4 2022 earnings beat estimates

Yum! Brands (YUM), which operates KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell, and Habit Burger Grill, posted its latest quarterly results that beat Wall Street estimates. In its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings results,...

Yum Brands (YUM) earnings Q4 2022

Vehicles wait in line at the drive through lane of a Yum! Brands Inc. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Taco Bell restaurant in Lockport, Illinois. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yum Brands on...

Yum China Profit Plunged 89% In 4th Qtr As Covid Wave Hurt Spending

A Pizza Hut and a KFC restaurant operated by Yum China in Shanghai last year. Photographer: Qilai … [+] Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Widespread Covid outbreaks in mainland China in...

Royal Caribbean Stock Could Rise 35%. How It Beat Other Cruise Lines With its Recovery.

These reports, excerpted and edited by Barron’s, were issued recently by investment and research firms. The reports are a sampling of analysts’ thinking; they should not be considered the views or rec...

Yum Brands (YUM) Q3 2022 earnings

Signage is displayed outside a Yum! Brands Inc. Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, U.S., on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2020. Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Image...

Senior KFC Executives Opt for Retirement as Interest Rates Hit Pension Payouts

Rising interest rates are adding to companies’ borrowing costs and triggering higher credit-card bills for consumers. At KFC, they are driving a turnover in senior management. The Louisville, Ky.-base...

I prefer McDonald’s over KFC parent Yum Brands

Verizon: “I’m not crazy about it. It does yield 5.85%. They have the ability to raise the dividend, but I think over time it’s a wasting asset. If it does jump to like $45 or $46, I ...

Ajisen Joins Yum China With Weak Results Amid Lockdowns

Pedestrians walk past a Japan-based fast food restaurants chain Ajisen Ramen restaurant in Shanghai … [+] in 2019. (Photo by Alex Tai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) SOPA Images/LightR...

Yum Brands (YUM) Q2 2022 earnings

A woman walks past a Taco Bell Cantina on July 30, 2020 in New York City. Alexi Rosenfeld | Getty Images Yum Brands on Wednesday reported mixed quarterly results, but said Taco Bell had stronger sales...

Starbucks, Uber, CVS to Report Earnings Amid Shrinking Economy

July 30, 2022 10:00 am ET Listen to article (2 minutes) CVS Health Starbucks and Uber Technologies are among the companies headlining another busy earnings week as investors look for signs of a recess...

Restaurant Stocks Are Finally Coming Back. This One Looks Like a Good Bet.

Text size A recession, if one comes, would be particularly bad news for full-service restaurants. Saul Martinez/Bloomberg Recent market volatility can make anyone’s stomach queasy. Some restaurant sto...

Yum Brands says it is close to selling its Russian KFC business

A woman walks near closed KFC and McDonald’s restaurants that suspended their business in Russia due to the military invasion of Ukraine, April 16, 2022, in Moscow, Russia. Konstantin Zavrazhin ...

Under Armour Stock Has Tanked. Director David Gibbs Scooped Up Shares.

Text size Under Armour stock plunged in early May after the company reported a first-quarter loss. Brandon Bell/Getty Images/Getty Images Under Armour stock has tumbled in 2022, but director David W. ...

Yum! Brands Stock: Delicious Chart or Rotten Price Action?

Yum! Brands  (YUM) – Get Yum! Brands, Inc. Report has been on fire lately. While the stock is up just 1% on Friday, a gain today would cement the stock’s seventh straight daily gain. In that str...

Yum Brands’ Digital Sales Mix Exceeds 40%, While Pizza Hut U.S. Takes A Hit From Delivery Driver Shortages

LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – AUGUST 06: A ‘Now Hiring’ sign is posted at a Pizza Hut on August 06, 2021 … [+] in Los Angeles, California. The U.S. economy added over 900,000 jobs ...

Yum Brands (YUM) Q1 2022 earnings

Vehicles wait in line at the drive through lane of a Yum! Brands Inc. Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) and Taco Bell restaurant in Lockport, Illinois, U.S. Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yum Bran...

Beyond Meat Stock Jumps on Hopes McDonald’s Partnership Will Be Permanent

Text size A McDonald’s McPlant Beyond Meat burger. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Beyond Meat stock jumped on Wednesday, following reports that its McPlant partnership with restaurant behemoth McD...

KFC Owners Yum! Brands Files for NFT Trademarks, Plans to Join Metaverse – crypto.news

Yesterday, Mike Kondoudis tweeted that KFC, a food giant filed a trademark application for its name and logos for virtual drinks and food. Several other top food vendors recently applied for NFT relat...

Russian Prosecutors Warn Western Companies of Arrests, Asset Seizures

Russian prosecutors have issued warnings to Western companies in Russia, threatening to arrest corporate leaders there who criticize the government or to seize assets of companies that withdraw from t...

Chinese Stocks Plunge After SEC Stokes Delisting Concerns

A further step by the Securities and Exchange Commission toward forcing companies from China off American exchanges helped trigger the worst decline in U.S.-listed Chinese stocks since the global fina...

SEC-targeted Chinese companies slump; Yum China warns of 2024 delisting risk

Shares of Chinese companies flagged for possible delisting in the U.S. slid in Hong Kong and Shanghai trading Friday, a move that analysts said highlighted geopolitical tensions but would have little ...

What CEOs Are Saying: ‘We See Inflation Going Up Everywhere’

Here is what some of the world’s corporate leaders said in their quarterly earnings reports this week about inflation, pricing strategy and the pandemic. Coca-Cola Co. KO -1.78% Chief Executive James ...

Weekend reads: Inflation fear and opportunities for investors

U.S. consumer price inflation rose to a 40-year high of 7.5% in January. That pace is running way ahead of wage growth, and the official figures can mask even more pain, depending on a family’s circum...

Yum! Brands Sets Industry Development Record, Doubles Digital Sales In Two Years

A member of staff hands an order to a customer at a KFC drive-thru in Leicester as the fast food … [+] chain reopened hundreds of its restaurants as drive-thru and pick-up locations after the in...

Yum Brands (YUM) Q4 2021 earnings miss estimates

Customers wearing Taco Bell foam taco hats exit the company’s restaurant, a unit of Yum! Brands Inc. in Bangkok, Thailand. Brent Lewin | Bloomberg | Getty Images Yum Brands on Wednesday reported...

Covid Hurts Business At Yum China; Shares Plunge 4.3% In Hong Kong

A customer collects a take-out order in a KFC restaurant in Shanghai last September. Photographer: … [+] Qilai Shen/Bloomberg © 2021 Bloomberg Finance LP Multiple waves of Delta variant outbreak...

Beyond Meat Stock Is Climbing Because ‘Beyond Fried Chicken’ Is Coming to KFC

Text size KFC Beyond Bucket Courtesy of Beyond Meat Beyond Meat said its plant-based fried chicken product is coming to KFC locations in the U.S. next week. Shares of the meat substitute firm jumped i...