Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM)

jbobroff (32.16) Submitted: 2/12/07 3:07 PM : Start Price: $29.70 YUM Score: 34.62

I have been to China 3 times in the last year and have seen three very important things: 1) a lot of KFCs and Pizza Hut stores 2) Long lines including lines out the door at a Pizza Hut in Shanghai on a Saturday night and 3) a number of suppliers prod...

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2Cores (94.35) Submitted: 4/02/08 4:13 AM : Start Price: $38.36 YUM Score: 0.49

Chicken in China. Who knew? Just in time for a growing middle class and some finger licken Olympic crowds. Besides they need something other than a steady diet of pork. Pork fat may rule but have you seen Emeril lately? I've decided that anyone who e...

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ikkyu2 (97.86) Submitted: 12/17/06 9:01 PM : Start Price: $28.71 YUM Score: 38.16

The story here is not the American market, which is saturated with Taco Bell/KFC/Pizza Hut outlets.

And it's not E.coli - that's just a blip - nor is zero trans fats, the average Taco Bell eater doesn't care.

The story is expansion into foreign mar...

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PaddyFahey (94.74) Submitted: 9/28/06 7:01 PM : Start Price: $25.68 YUM Score: 47.88

Yum Foods are the dominant fast food in China. As China goes so goes Yum Foods. It appears that KFC and Pizza Hut are very popular so much so that a new store is being built a day in China.

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NetscribeRstrnts (< 20) Submitted: 12/12/06 9:00 AM : Start Price: $28.94 YUM Score: 36.49

Yum! is becoming “Yummier” day by day

Yum! Brands, Inc. is the world's largest restaurant company in terms of locations with over 34,000 restaurants in over 100 countries. Four of the company’s restaurant brands - KFC, Long John Silver's, Pizza Hut,...

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TheGreatSatan (99.99) Submitted: 12/11/06 5:43 PM : Start Price: $28.94 YUM Score: -36.49

Under this umberella can be found some of the nastiest restaurant chains on the planet. Underperform just on principle.

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esxokm (88.96) Submitted: 8/30/06 6:50 AM : Start Price: $24.07 YUM Score: 55.64

Yum! Brands is a collection of three of the best-known fast-food franchises: Pizza Hut, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Taco Bell (well, I suppose pizza isn't that fast).

The company's five-year chart is a thing of beauty. Long-term holders should be r...

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HonestK (99.51) Submitted: 10/23/06 10:31 AM : Start Price: $28.25 YUM Score: 36.06

An American company that is aggressively and successfully doing business in China. Good food, strong brands, lots of new hungry customers in emerging economies with hard earned cash to spend. What's not to like?

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monetandme (24.91) Submitted: 9/26/07 12:11 AM : Start Price: $33.15 YUM Score: 26.55

KFC has cultural acceptance and now has 1,400 restaurants in China.Today, there are close to 200 Pizza Hut restaurants in Mainland China, Pizza hut customers have been known to wait 2 hours in line waiting for a piece of Americana. They are planning ...

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DLai0001 (29.63) Submitted: 3/01/07 1:45 PM : Start Price: $27.96 YUM Score: 40.83

They took a bit of flak /w the rat problem, but it's a fairly isolated incident.





KFC seems to be doing very well in China, actually outpacing McDonalds. Not sure why, but I guess greesy breaded foods are popular /w the Chinese.

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