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Yum! Brands

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Yum! Brands has retired 17.9% of its shares since 2017, from 332,513,103 to 272,901,085.

17.9%retired since 2017
6.9%last 5 years
1.7%last 12 months
273Mshares today
Shares outstanding, 2017 to todaysplit adjusted, from SEC filings
333M shares, 2017273M20182020202220242026
2017, 332,513,1032026-07-30, 272,901,085
A share bought in 2017
1.2× more of Yum! Brands today, without buying another share. It was one of 332,513,103 shares then. It is one of 272,901,085 now.
Every filing we read9 fiscal years, split adjusted
Fiscal yearDateShares outstandingFiling
20172018-02-14332,513,10310-K
20182019-02-13306,414,17510-K
20192020-02-12300,822,32210-K
20202021-02-12300,055,31210-K
20212022-02-15288,980,98210-K
20222023-02-17280,107,86310-K
20232024-02-16281,336,28010-K
20242025-02-17279,101,93610-K
20252026-02-17276,430,13010-K

Source: all 10-K filings of Yum! Brands on EDGAR. Download this series as CSV. Licence CC BY 4.0, credit Buyback Radar.

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Yum! Brands buybacks, answered

Is Yum! Brands buying back its stock?

Yes. Yum! Brands has 1.7% fewer shares outstanding than twelve months ago, 272,901,085 as of July 30, 2026. Over five years the share count is down 6.9%.

How many shares has Yum! Brands bought back?

Net of every new share it issued, Yum! Brands has 59.6 million fewer shares than at its 2017 peak. That is 17.9% of the company. Since fiscal 2018 alone it bought back about 68.9 million shares, while the count fell by 33.5 million. The difference went to employees and other new shares.

How many shares does Yum! Brands have outstanding?

272,901,085 shares, as of July 30, 2026, from the cover page of its latest 10-Q. At the 2017 peak it had 332,513,103.

What do Yum! Brands' buybacks mean for a shareholder?

Each share is a bigger slice of the company. Someone who held Yum! Brands stock in 2017 owns 1.2 times as much of the business today without buying another share. Whether that was a good use of cash depends on the price paid.

How does Yum! Brands compare with other cannibal stocks?

Yum! Brands ranks No. 226 of 251 companies on Buyback Radar by share of the company retired since its peak. Close to it on the list: Ingevity (18.4%), Ingredion (18.4%), Howmet Aerospace (17.8%), Zoetis (17.5%).

Every answer is computed from Yum! Brands' own SEC filings and rebuilt every Monday. Latest count: 10-Q on EDGAR.

Superinvestors who own it

Tom GaynerMarkel Group245,213 shares, $39.2M, Q2 2026
Terry SmithFundsmith556,107 shares, $88.9M, Q2 2026

From the latest 13F filings. All superinvestors.

Insider buying, last 12 months

No open-market purchases reported in the last 12 months.

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