---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950170-25-112668"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUMC"
cik: "0001673358"
company_name: "Yum China Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-17T08:34:30.480449+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.65
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yum China plans additional ~$270M share buybacks for 2025, total return expected ~$1.5B

## Summary
- Additional $270M open-market share repurchase program announced, starting Sept 3, 2025.
- 2025 total shareholder return now expected ~$1.5B: ~$360M dividends + ~$1.14B buybacks.
- Company on track to return $3B to shareholders from 2025-2026, plus $1.5B delivered in 2024.
- Prior 2025 repurchases: $356M in H1, plus $510M agreements for H2, before this addition.
- Cumulative shareholder return from 2017 to Sept 2, 2025, totals $5.2B.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950170-25-112668
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUMC
- cik: 0001673358
- company_name: Yum China Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-09-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.65
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.65
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1673358/000095017025112668/0000950170-25-112668-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1673358/000095017025112668/yumc-20250903.htm

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