Yum Brands Inc (YUM): Today's Featured Leisure Laggard

Yum Brands (YUM) pushed the Leisure industry lower today making it today's featured Leisure laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.9%. By the end of trading, Yum Brands fell 53 cents (-0.8%) to $66.58 on light volume. Throughout the day, 3.2 million shares of Yum Brands exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 4.6 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $66-$66.84 after having opened the day at $66.39 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $67.11. Other companies within the Leisure industry that declined today were: Orbitz Worldwide (OWW), down 25.5%, Priceline.com (PCLN), down 17.3%, Fiesta Restaurant Group (FRGI), down 6.4%, and Arcos Dorados Holdings (ARCO), down 6.1%.

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YUM! Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, operates as a quick service restaurant company in the United States and internationally. Yum Brands has a market cap of $30.69 billion and is part of the services sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 21.3, above the average leisure industry P/E ratio of 21 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 13.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 14 analysts that rate Yum Brands a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Yum Brands as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, solid stock price performance and growth in earnings per share. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally poor debt management on most measures that we evaluated.

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On the positive front, Caribou Coffee Company (CBOU), up 5.3%, Pizza Inn Holdings (PZZI), up 4.8%, Full House Resorts (FLL), up 4.5%, and Asia Entertainment & Resources (AERL), up 4.3%, were all gainers within the leisure industry with Darden Restaurants (DRI) being today's featured leisure industry leader.

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For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the leisure industry could consider PowerShares Dynamic Leisure&Entert (PEJ) while those bearish on the leisure industry could consider ProShares Ultra Sht Consumer Services (SCC).

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