---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001041061-24-000029"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "YUM"
cik: "0001041061"
company_name: "YUM BRANDS INC"
filed_at: "2024-08-06T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-31T12:05:45.283051+00:00"
event_type: "earnings"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Yum! Brands Q2 core operating profit +10%, Taco Bell US same-store sales +5%

## Summary
- GAAP EPS $1.28, EPS excluding Special Items $1.35; GAAP operating profit +6%, core operating profit +10%.
- Worldwide system sales +3% ex F/X; same-store sales -1%; digital sales nearly $8B (>50% mix).
- Taco Bell US same-store sales +5%; KFC opened 598 gross new restaurants (+8% unit growth).
- Pizza Hut system sales flat ex F/X; Habit Burger system sales -1%, same-store sales -6%.
- CEO reaffirms FY2024 outlook for at least 8% core operating profit growth.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001041061-24-000029
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: YUM
- cik: 0001041061
- company_name: YUM BRANDS INC
- filed_at: 2024-08-06T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: earnings
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 2.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106124000029/0001041061-24-000029-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1041061/000104106124000029/yum-20240806.htm

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