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Equity Bottom-Up

<ul><li>Evaluating Yum!</li><li>Brands' 2024 second quarter results reveals a mixed performance, highlighting both significant strides and notable challenges in the company’s operational and growth efforts.</li><li>Yum!</li></ul>

Evaluating Yum!Brands' 2024 second quarter results reveals a mixed performance, highlighting both significant strides and notable challenges in the company’s operational and growth efforts.Yum!

Yum! Brands Inc.: A Story Of Robust Franchise and Store Development! - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Yum!</li><li>Brands, Inc.'s Q1 2024 Earnings highlighted a mixed performance, demonstrating the resilience of the business amidst a challenging operating environment.</li><li>The company saw a growth rate of 6% in its core operating profit this quarter.</li></ul>

Yum!Brands, Inc.'s Q1 2024 Earnings highlighted a mixed performance, demonstrating the resilience of the business amidst a challenging operating environment.The company saw a growth rate of 6% in its core operating profit this quarter.

Yum! Brands Inc.: How Is Their Global Expansion of Franchise Locations Going? - Major Drivers

<ul><li>Yum!</li><li>Brands delivered impressive performances across its various business units, despite geopolitical tensions and socio-economic hurdles worldwide.</li><li>The company crossed the $60 billion system sales threshold and surpassed all aspects of its long-term growth algorithm, setting an industry benchmark for the third consecutive year.</li></ul>

Yum!Brands delivered impressive performances across its various business units, despite geopolitical tensions and socio-economic hurdles worldwide.The company crossed the $60 billion system sales threshold and surpassed all aspects of its long-term growth algorithm, setting an industry benchmark for the third consecutive year.

Yum! Brands Inc:  Bold Restaurant Development Growth & Other Major Drivers

<ul><li>Brands, Inc. delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter, with revenues below the analyst consensus.</li><li>Notably, the quarter marked a significant milestone with the unveiling 1,130 gross new units, a testament to their robust unit development strategy.</li><li>Yum's focus on growth drivers, namely Relevant, Easy, and Distinctive (RED) Brands and Unrivaled Culture and Talent, took center stage.</li></ul>

Brands, Inc. delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter, with revenues below the analyst consensus.Notably, the quarter marked a significant milestone with the unveiling 1,130 gross new units, a testament to their robust unit development strategy.Yum's focus on growth drivers, namely Relevant, Easy, and Distinctive (RED) Brands and Unrivaled Culture and Talent, took center stage.

Yum! Brands Inc.: Technology-Driven Profitable Growth & Franchisee Economics! - Major Drivers

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Sumeet Singh

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We cover all listing across the Asia Pacific along with follow-up placements. As of Dec 2020, our team had covered 539 IPOs with a hit rate of 73.5% and 685 placements with a hit rate of 66.8%.

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<a href="https://www.smartkarma.com/entities/guzman-y-gomez" target="_blank" data-smartkarma-citation="entities:43656:1" rel="noopener">Guzman Y Gomez</a> plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO.</li>
<li>GYG is a quick service restaurant business with more than 200 restaurants globally. It mainly focuses on fresh, made-to-order, Mexican-inspired food.</li>
<li>In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.</li>
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Guzman Y Gomez plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO.
GYG is a quick service restaurant business with more than 200 restaurants globally. It mainly focuses on fresh, made-to-order, Mexican-inspired food.
In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.


Guzman Y Gomez IPO - The Negatives - Lawsuits and Management Churn

United States

Yum! Brands, Inc, owns and franchises quick-service restaurants worldwide.  The Company develops, operates, franchises and licenses a worldwide system of restaurants which prepare, package and sell a menu of food items.

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Yum! Brands Inc (YUM US)

Yum! Brands Inc.: A Story Of Robust Franchise and Store Development! - Major Drivers

Evaluating Yum! Brands' 2024 second quarter results reveals a mixed performance, highlighting both significant strides and notable challenges in...

Baptista Research

Yum! Brands Inc.: How Is Their Global Expansion of Franchise Locations Going? - Major Drivers

Yum! Brands, Inc.'s Q1 2024 Earnings highlighted a mixed performance, demonstrating the resilience of the business amidst a challenging operating...

Baptista Research

Yum! Brands Inc: Bold Restaurant Development Growth & Other Major Drivers

Yum! Brands delivered impressive performances across its various business units, despite geopolitical tensions and socio-economic hurdles...

Baptista Research

Yum! Brands Inc.: Technology-Driven Profitable Growth & Franchisee Economics! - Major Drivers

Brands, Inc. delivered a mixed set of results for the previous quarter, with revenues below the analyst consensus. Notably, the quarter marked a...

Baptista Research

Guzman Y Gomez IPO - The Negatives - Lawsuits and Management Churn

Guzman Y Gomez plans to raise around US$160m in its Australian IPO. In this note, we talk about the not-so-positive aspects of the deal.

Sumeet Singh

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