During 2018 Q4 the big money sentiment increased to 1.02. That’s change of 0.15, from 2018Q3’s 0.87. 44 investors sold all, 244 reduced holdings as YUM ratio increased. 202 increased holdings while 91 funds took holdings. Funds hold 222.53 million shares thus 5.77% more from 2018Q3’s 210.38 million shares. National Bank Of Montreal Can holds 290,245 shs. Legal General Gru Public Ltd stated it has 1.92 million shs. Piedmont Advsr Inc holds 11,244 shs or 0.05% of its capital. Oppenheimer & Company Inc stated it has 0.07% of its capital in YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM). Coastline Trust invested in 59,624 shs. Apriem, a California-based fund reported 2,306 shs. Thomasville National Bank & Trust has 0.05% invested in YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) for 2,732 shs. Mackay Shields Limited Liability Corporation reported 59,989 shs. Pennsylvania Tru owns 0.06% invested in YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) for 14,088 shs. Pnc Fincl Service accumulated 356,947 shs. Intrust Commercial Bank Na reported 7,334 shs. Burt Wealth Advsr invested in 0.02% or 500 shs. 57,982 were reported by State Of Alaska Department Of Revenue. Cornerstone Advisors Inc stated it has 9,500 shs. Parametrica Mgmt Ltd invested 0.25% of its capital in YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM).

YUM registered $9.16 million net activity with 1 buy and 9 selling transactions since October 15, 2018. Another trade for 2,889 shs valued at $259,808 was sold by Lowings Anthony. 2,652 shs were bought by Domier Tanya L, worth $249,888. On Monday, February 11 Creed Greg sold $1.32M worth of YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) or 13,986 shs. $148,611 worth of stock was sold by Skeans Tracy L on Thursday, November 1. Another trade for 745 shs valued at $67,050 was sold by Catlett Scott. Eaton Roger G. sold $4.06 million worth of stock or 44,823 shs.

The holdings In Yum Brands Inc Com (YUM) was upped owned by Cibc World Markets Corp. According to 2018Q4 SEC form the reduction is 486.5%. The company’s stock rose 3.72% with the market as Cibc World Markets Corp bought 513,709 shares. At the end of 2018Q4, the institutional investor held 619,302 shares of the consumer services company, valued at $56.93 million, up from 105,593 at the end of the previous reported quarter. $31.02 billion is the MC of Yum Brands Inc Com. The stock increased 0.63% or $0.63 during the last trading session, touching $101.4.Currently YUM! Brands, Inc. is uptrending after 19.37% change in last April 14, 2018. YUM has 1.19M shares volume. YUM outperformed the S&P500 by 15.00%.

According to a filing the Cibc World Markets Corp’s stake in Occidental Pete Corp Del (NYSE:OXY) was reduced by 59,276 shares to 633,406 shares valued at $38.88M in 2018Q4. It manages about $10.74B US Long portfolio. For a total of 79,476 shares it reduced its holding in Ishares Tr China Lg (FXI) by 172,424 shares in the quarter, and has cut its stake in Illinois Tool Wks Inc Com (NYSE:ITW).

For more YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) news released recently go to: Fool.com, Investorplace.com, Benzinga.com, Bizjournals.com or Seekingalpha.com. The titles are as follows: “3 Things Yum China’s Management Wants You to Know – The Motley Fool” released on March 20, 2019, “McDonald’s Now Is in the Tech Game but It Won’t Matter for MCD Stock – Investorplace.com” on March 29, 2019, “JPMorgan Now Prefers Domino’s Over Taco Bell (NYSE:DPZ)(NYSE:YUM) – Benzinga” with a publish date: March 19, 2019, “Yum Brands CEO’s pay rose 13 percent last year – Louisville Business First” and the last “Pizza M&A delivered up – Seeking Alpha” with publication date: April 11, 2019.

YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) Ratings Coverage

Total analysts of 9 have positions in Yum Brands (NYSE:YUM) as follows: 2 rated it a “Buy”, 2 with “Sell” and 5 with “Hold”. The positive are 22%. Since October 18, 2018 according to StockzIntelligence Inc Yum Brands has 12 analyst reports. On Thursday, October 18 the stock has “In-Line” rating by Evercore. In Tuesday, March 19 report J.P. Morgan downgraded it to “Hold” rating and $94 target. On Tuesday, March 19 the rating was maintained by Argus Research with “Buy”. On Wednesday, March 20 Mizuho downgraded YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) rating. Mizuho has “Sell” rating and $84 target. On Thursday, April 4 Citigroup maintained YUM! Brands, Inc. (NYSE:YUM) with “Neutral” rating. The company rating was maintained by Oppenheimer on Thursday, November 29. On Wednesday, October 24 the rating was downgraded by Stifel Nicolaus to “Hold”. The company rating was downgraded by Goldman Sachs on Friday, January 11.