Last updated 31 Jul 2026, 19:51 UTC · updated through the trading day
Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index Today
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index today is 68/100, showing Greed. CFGI measures current Yum Brands market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Greed for 2 days. Get the next update by email, free
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The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index today is 68/100 (Greed), down from 75/100 (Greed) yesterday and up 29 points from last week's reading of 39 (Fear).
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Live Yum Brands Price and Sentiment Chart
Yum Brands price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.
This daily chart compares Yum Brands price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.
During the last 894 days, Yum Brands sentiment ranged from 11 (Extreme Fear) to 85 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 68.
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What Is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index Today?
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Yum Brands market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.
Current Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index Value
The current Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Yum Brands market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.
- Daily Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index: 68/100, showing Greed for the wider market trend.
- 4-hour Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index: 46/100, showing Neutral for the medium-term market trend.
- 1-hour Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index: 56/100, showing Neutral for the short-term market trend.
- 15-minute Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index: 48/100, showing Neutral for the intraday and day trading.
These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Yum Brands sentiment in one place.
What Does the Current Yum Brands Fear and Greed Score Mean?
Greed on the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index means confidence and risk appetite are rising. Participants are leaning bullish, though elevated greed can also point to crowded positioning.
Is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.
Which Yum Brands Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?
Use the daily reading for the wider Yum Brands market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.
How Often Is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index Updated?
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from YUM's price action and nine other signals.
How to Read the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index Chart
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Yum Brands sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.
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How CFGI Calculates the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index
CFGI combines live Yum Brands market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Yum Brands score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.
Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.
Yum Brands Fear and Greed Components
- Price Score: 51 (Neutral)
- Volatility Score: 90 (Extreme Greed)
- Volume Score: 89 (Extreme Greed)
- Impulse Score: 89 (Extreme Greed)
- Technical Score: 62 (Greed)
- Social Score: 42 (Neutral)
- Dominance Score: 54 (Neutral)
- Search Score: 65 (Greed)
- Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
- Order Book Score: 51 (Neutral)
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Yum Brands Market Sentiment Today
Yum Brands market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Yum Brands sentiment is changing throughout the day.
Compare Yum Brands with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.
What Is Yum Brands?
A boring year, then this.
Yum Brands is the franchisor behind KFC and Taco Bell, and until 2026 behind Pizza Hut too: in the spring it agreed to sell the pizza chain, ending a decades-long three-brand structure. What remains is a faster company, with Taco Bell in the United States running well ahead of the wider quick-service sector and KFC borrowing its playbook. On the CFGI Yum Brands fear and greed index, the crowd has spent July 2026 trying to price exactly that.
The CFGI read: Yum ran its entire emotional range inside ten days this month. On 7 July 2026 it hit 82 out of 100 at $165.99, its only Extreme Greed session in 273 scored days. On 17 July 2026 it hit 16 out of 100 at $148.59, its floor. Between them came a 32-point drop on 9 July, from 82 to 50, then a slide into two days of Extreme Fear and a nine-session run in Fear or worse that was still going when the window closed on 24 July at 39.
Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index History
Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.
For most of the preceding year it was unremarkable. Yum averaged 49 out of 100, spent 102 of 273 sessions in Neutral and divided the rest almost evenly, 84 days in Fear or worse against 87 in Greed or better. Its longest good stretch was the opening fortnight we scored, 11 sessions in Greed or better from 25 June to 10 July 2025, and its biggest daily gain was 41 points on 4 November 2025, from 33 to 74.
The share price is the flattest part of the record. Yum opened at $141.39 and closed at $148.18, a gain of 4.8% across thirteen months, with a low of $138.21 on 31 October 2025 and a high of $168.16 on 27 February 2026. A thirty-dollar band, and a score that travelled from 16 to 82 inside it. Three Extreme Fear days rank it 132nd of the stocks we track, and two of the three arrived in the final fortnight.
So it ends the window mid-argument. A franchise crowd that had been thoroughly bored for a year found an opinion in the same month the Pizza Hut sale was due to complete, and on the combined crypto and stock Fear and Greed Index that late July stretch is the loudest fortnight Yum has given us. The floor on 17 July was not a market event either: 94 assets across the board were in Fear or worse that day and just 7 in Extreme Fear.
Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
| Extreme Fear | Fear | Neutral | Greed | Extreme Greed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Extreme Fear: 3 | Fear: 75 | Neutral: 95 | Greed: 76 | Extreme Greed: 1 |
Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 31 Jul 2026. Updates daily.
For the market Yum Brands trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.
Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials
Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.
About Yum! Brands, Inc.
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Restaurants
- CEO
- Christopher Lee Turner
- Employees
- 49,000
- Exchange
- NYSE
- Headquarters
- Louisville, KY, US
- Listed
- Sep 17, 1997
- Website
- www.yum.com
Key Stats & Valuation
- Market cap
- $42.2B
- P/E (TTM)
- 19.1
- P/B
- -5.83
- Net margin
- 25.42%
- Beta
- 0.56
- Dividend yield
- 1.91%
- 52-week range
- $137 – $170
- 49% of range
Analyst Ratings & Price Target
What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 51 independent equity analysts covering YUM.
Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.
Earnings
Next earnings: Nov 3, 2026 · EPS estimate $1.62 per share.
| Reported | EPS actual | Estimate | Surprise |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 30, 2026 | $1.62 | $1.58 | +3% |
| Apr 29, 2026 | $1.50 | $1.38 | +9% |
| Feb 4, 2026 | $1.73 | $1.76 | -2% |
| Nov 4, 2025 | $1.58 | $1.49 | +6% |
EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.
Financials
Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.
| Year | Revenue | Growth | Net income | EPS |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $8.21B | +9% | $1.56B | $5.59 |
| 2024 | $7.55B | +7% | $1.49B | $5.28 |
| 2023 | $7.08B | +3% | $1.60B | $5.68 |
| 2022 | $6.84B | +4% | $1.32B | $4.63 |
| 2021 | $6.58B | +16% | $1.57B | $5.30 |
| 2020 | $5.65B | +1% | $904.0M | $2.99 |
| 2019 | $5.60B | -2% | $1.29B | $4.23 |
| 2018 | $5.69B | -3% | $1.54B | $4.79 |
| 2017 | $5.88B | -8% | $1.34B | $3.86 |
| 2016 | $6.36B | -1% | $1.64B | $4.17 |
| 2015 | $6.42B | -52% | $1.29B | $2.95 |
| 2014 | $13.28B | +1% | $1.05B | $2.37 |
| 2013 | $13.08B | -4% | $1.09B | $2.41 |
| 2012 | $13.63B | +8% | $1.60B | $3.46 |
| 2011 | $12.63B | +11% | $1.32B | $2.81 |
| 2010 | $11.34B | +5% | $1.16B | $2.44 |
| 2009 | $10.84B | -4% | $1.07B | $2.28 |
| 2008 | $11.28B | +8% | $964.0M | $2.03 |
| 2007 | $10.42B | +9% | $909.0M | $1.74 |
| 2006 | $9.56B | +2% | $824.0M | $1.51 |
| 2005 | $9.35B | +4% | $762.0M | $1.33 |
| 2004 | $9.01B | +8% | $740.0M | $1.27 |
| 2003 | $8.38B | +8% | $617.0M | $1.05 |
| 2002 | $7.76B | +12% | $583.0M | $0.99 |
| 2001 | $6.95B | -2% | $492.0M | $0.84 |
| 2000 | $7.09B | -9% | $413.0M | $0.70 |
| 1999 | $7.82B | -8% | $627.0M | $1.02 |
| 1998 | $8.47B | -13% | $445.0M | $0.73 |
| 1997 | $9.68B | — | $-111.0M | $-0.19 |
Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.
Dividends
- Dividend yield
- 1.91%
- Last dividend
- $0.75
- Ex-date
- May 27, 2026
Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index FAQ
What is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index today?
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index today is 68/100 on the daily view, showing Greed. It summarizes live Yum Brands market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.
How is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index calculated?
CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Yum Brands fear and greed reading.
What is a good Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index reading?
There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.
How accurate is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index?
It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the Yum Brands market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.
What does the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index measure?
It measures the emotional state of the Yum Brands market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.
How do I use the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index?
Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.
How often is the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index updated?
The Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as Yum Brands market conditions shift.
What does a low Yum Brands Fear and Greed score mean?
A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the Yum Brands market.
What does a high Yum Brands Fear and Greed score mean?
A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the Yum Brands market.
Can I get alerts when the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index changes?
Yes. CFGI alerts let you track Yum Brands sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index score changes.
Can I add the Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index to my website?
Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live Yum Brands Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current Yum Brands sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.
Can I use Yum Brands Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?
Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to Yum Brands sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.
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About CFGI
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CFGI is a market sentiment data company that scores crowd emotion from 0 to 100 across crypto and stock markets. Crypto readings cover the whole market and hundreds of individual assets across 15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily views. The stock index gives a live daily reading for wider stock market sentiment.
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