Brinker International
EAT · Restaurants
$182.70
3.9%Yum! Brands
YUM · Restaurants
$149.70
3.1%The short version
- Yum! Brands is the larger business, with $8.2B of revenue in fiscal 2025 against $5.8B for Brinker International.
- Yum! Brands grew revenue faster (8.8%, against 7.9%).
- Yum! Brands kept more of each dollar of sales as operating profit (31.3% operating margin, against 10.7% operating margin).
- Yum! Brands turned more of its sales into free cash flow (20.0% FCF margin, against 9.6% FCF margin).
- Brinker International earned a higher return on the capital invested in it (66.0%, against 54.8%).
- Investors pay more for each dollar of Yum! Brands’s earnings: a P/E of 18.8x against 16.8x for Brinker International.
| Latest fiscal year | EAT · FY26 | YUM · FY25 |
|---|---|---|
| Size | ||
| Market cap | $8.2B | $41.5B |
| Revenue | $5.8B | $8.2B |
| Free cash flow | $558M | $1.6B |
| Net income | $487M | $1.6B |
| Growth | ||
| Revenue growth | 7.9% | 8.8% |
| 5-year growth | 11.7% | 7.8% |
| Share count change | −2.8% | −1.4% |
| Profitability | ||
| Gross margin | — | 69.8% |
| Operating margin | 10.7% | 31.3% |
| Net margin | 8.4% | 19.0% |
| FCF margin | 9.6% | 20.0% |
| Return on capital | 66.0% | 54.8% |
| Return on equity | 119.6% | — |
| Balance sheet | ||
| Net debt | $335M | $11.3B |
| Net debt / EBITDA | 0.4x | 4.1x |
| Dividends and buybacks | $444M | $1.3B |
| Valuation & quality | ||
| P/E | 16.8x | 18.8x |
| Piotroski F-score | 8 | 6 |
FY17
EAT $3.2B
YUM $5.9B
FY18
EAT $3.1B
YUM $5.7B
FY19
EAT $3.2B
YUM $5.6B
FY20
EAT $3.1B
YUM $5.7B
FY21
EAT $3.3B
YUM $6.6B
FY22
EAT $3.8B
YUM $6.8B
FY23
EAT $4.1B
YUM $7.1B
FY24
EAT $4.4B
YUM $7.5B
FY25
EAT $5.4B
YUM $8.2B
FY26
EAT $5.8B
YUM —
EAT
YUM
FY17
EAT 8.1%
YUM 47.0%
FY18
EAT 7.2%
YUM 40.4%
FY19
EAT 7.2%
YUM 34.5%
FY20
EAT 2.0%
YUM 26.6%
FY21
EAT 6.0%
YUM 32.5%
FY22
EAT 4.2%
YUM 32.0%
FY23
EAT 3.5%
YUM 32.8%
FY24
EAT 5.2%
YUM 31.8%
FY25
EAT 9.5%
YUM 31.3%
FY26
EAT 10.7%
YUM —
EAT
YUM
FY17
EAT $213M
YUM $712M
FY18
EAT $183M
YUM $942M
FY19
EAT $45.1M
YUM $1.1B
FY20
EAT $141M
YUM $1.1B
FY21
EAT $276M
YUM $1.5B
FY22
EAT $102M
YUM $1.1B
FY23
EAT $71.4M
YUM $1.3B
FY24
EAT $223M
YUM $1.4B
FY25
EAT $414M
YUM $1.6B
FY26
EAT $558M
YUM —
EAT
YUM
FY17
EAT 23.0%
YUM 64.1%
FY18
EAT 21.3%
YUM 85.2%
FY19
EAT 34.6%
YUM 79.7%
FY20
EAT 11.2%
YUM 53.8%
FY21
EAT 27.6%
YUM 80.0%
FY22
EAT 23.8%
YUM 62.7%
FY23
EAT 19.4%
YUM 67.3%
FY24
EAT 28.1%
YUM 62.4%
FY25
EAT 54.3%
YUM 54.8%
FY26
EAT 66.0%
YUM —
EAT
YUM
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