Yum! Brands Ownership | Who Owns Yum! Brands?

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Yum! Brands Ownership Summary

Yum! Brands is owned by 83.88% institutional investors, 0.15% insiders, and 15.97% retail investors. Vanguard group is the largest institutional shareholder, holding 11.92% of YUM shares. American Funds Washington Mutual A is the top mutual fund, with 3.27% of its assets in Yum! Brands shares.

YUM Ownership Benchmark

Type	Name	% Inst	% Insiders	% Retail
Stock	Yum! Brands	83.88%	0.15%	15.97%
Sector	Consumer Cyclical Stocks	60.36%	14.27%	25.37%
Industry	Restaurants Stocks	71.15%	11.83%	17.02%

Institutional Shareholders

Top Institutional Shareholders by Total Shares

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Value
Vanguard group	33.63M	11.92%	$4.51B
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	27.32M	9.79%	$4.05B
Blackrock	23.59M	8.36%	$3.12B
Jpmorgan chase	22.99M	8.15%	$3.08B
Capital investors	15.69M	5.62%	$2.33B
State street	12.74M	4.52%	$1.69B
T. rowe price investment management	10.78M	3.86%	$1.60B
Geode capital management	7.60M	2.70%	$1.02B
Morgan stanley	3.91M	1.39%	$517.46M
Loomis sayles & co l p	3.84M	1.38%	$569.72M

Top Institutional Shareholders by % of Total Assets

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Value
Paralel advisors	858.00K	4.91%	$115.11M
Platinum investment management	434.28K	4.28%	$64.35M
Magellan asset management	2.31M	3.91%	$341.84M
Gallacher capital management	44.72K	3.07%	$6.63M
Pavion blue capital	37.56K	2.47%	$5.57M
Lipe & dalton	28.00K	2.24%	$4.15M
Sustainable growth advisers, lp	2.63M	2.01%	$389.83M
Cantillon capital management	2.06M	1.77%	$305.72M
Horrell capital management	28.14K	1.69%	$4.17M
Enterprise financial services	22.00K	1.64%	$2.95M

Top Buyers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Norges bank	3.12M	0.05%	3.12M
T. rowe price investment management	10.78M	1.01%	1.51M
Blackrock funding, inc. /de	27.32M	0.08%	1.05M
Amundi	1.31M	0.07%	703.89K
Magellan asset management	2.31M	3.91%	609.22K

Top Sellers

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change
Capital world investors	3.41M	0.07%	-2.18M
Soroban capital partners lp	-	-	-1.64M
Victory capital management	190.16K	0.03%	-1.24M
Sustainable growth advisers, lp	2.63M	2.01%	-903.48K
Hs management partners	-	-	-874.81K

New Positions

Holder	Shares	% Assets	Change	Value
Norges bank	3.12M	0.05%	3.12M	$418.69M
Candlestick capital management lp	541.24K	1.53%	541.24K	$80.20M
Platinum investment management	434.28K	4.28%	434.28K	$64.35M
Anchor capital advisors	224.35K	0.86%	224.35K	$30.10M
Qube research	207.81K	0.03%	207.81K	$30.79M

Sold Out

Holder	Change
Dz bank ag deutsche zentral genossenschafts bank, frankfurt am main	-1.00
Abich financial wealth management	-1.00
Mendota financial group	-2.00
Parallax volatility advisers	-2.00
Tfo-tdc	-2.00

Institutional Ownership Trends

Date	Holdings	Change %	Shares	Change %	Ownership	Change %	Increased Position	Change %	Decreased Position	Change %
Jun 30, 2025	1,356	-1.88%	234,013,126	2.01%	83	1.25%	586	-0.68%	402	-14.29%
Mar 31, 2025	1,366	5.32%	228,776,404	-3.27%	81	1.16%	584	8.55%	462	9.74%
Dec 31, 2024	1,173	-7.49%	219,783,547	-6.25%	77	1.13%	478	-0.62%	382	-14.54%
Sep 30, 2024	1,251	1.05%	234,221,367	-2.81%	83	1.14%	477	-4.22%	440	11.11%
Jun 30, 2024	1,216	-3.80%	240,807,187	1.99%	85	1.22%	488	-3.75%	393	-5.07%

Top Mutual Funds Shareholders

Holder	Shares	% Holding	Change
American Funds Washington Mutual A	9.08M	3.27%	-2.09M
Capital Group Wash Mutual Invtrs Comp	9.08M	3.27%	-2.09M
Vanguard US Total Market Shares ETF	8.88M	3.18%	-54.76K
Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Inv	8.73M	3.14%	-203.64K
Vanguard Institutional 500 Index Trust	7.94M	2.86%	56.68K
Vanguard 500 Index Investor	6.88M	2.48%	-1.01M
Vanguard Mid Cap Index Institutional	6.20M	2.23%	66.80K
JPMorgan Equity Premium Income ETF	3.61M	1.30%	-
Fidelity 500 Index	3.52M	1.27%	999.00
SPDR® S&P 500 ETF	3.47M	1.24%	-50.84K

Recent Insider Transactions

Date	Name	Role	Activity	Value
Aug 15, 2025	Skeans Tracy L	COO and CPO	Sell	$1.81M
Aug 15, 2025	Gibbs David W	Chief Executive Officer	Sell	$286.93K
Aug 14, 2025	GRADDICK WEIR MIRIAN M	-	Sell	$296.12K
Aug 06, 2025	Cornell Brian C	-	Sell	$12.17K
Aug 06, 2025	Mezvinsky Scott	KFC Division CEO	Sell	$36.80K

Insider Transactions Trends

Date	Buy	Sell
2026 Q3	-	-
2024 Q3	-	14
2024 Q2	-	8
2024 Q1	-	8
2023 Q4	-	4

YUM Ownership FAQ

Who Owns Yum! Brands?

Yum! Brands shareholders are primarily institutional investors at 83.88%, followed by 0.15% insiders and 15.97% retail investors. The average institutional ownership in Yum! Brands's industry, Restaurants Stocks , is 71.15%, which Yum! Brands exceeds.

Who owns the most shares of Yum! Brands?

Yum! Brands’s largest shareholders are Vanguard group (33.63M shares, 11.92%), Blackrock funding, inc. /de (27.32M shares, 9.79%), and Blackrock (23.59M shares, 8.36%). Together, they hold 30.08% of Yum! Brands’s total shares outstanding.

Does Blackrock own Yum! Brands?

Yes, BlackRock owns 8.36% of Yum! Brands, totaling 23.59M shares as of Jun 2024. This represents 0.07% of BlackRock's total assets, with a market value of 3.12B$. In the last quarter, BlackRock increased its holdings by 48.66K shares, a 0.21% change.

Who is Yum! Brands’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested?

Paralel advisors is Yum! Brands’s biggest shareholder by percentage of total assets invested, with 4.91% of its assets in 858K Yum! Brands shares, valued at 115.11M$.

Who is the top mutual fund holder of Yum! Brands shares?

American Funds Washington Mutual A is the top mutual fund holder of Yum! Brands shares, with 3.27% of its total shares outstanding invested in 9.08M Yum! Brands shares.

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