Ticker brief
YUM YUM! BRANDS INC
Consumer, Cyclical · Retail
last close
$149.70
1 day
-3.1%
14 days
+3.4%
mkt cap
$45.4B
signals 14d
18
authors 14d
17
crowd 14d
+0.4σ
Options inteloptions-surface reads · latest available day per source
| metric | reading | context |
|---|---|---|
| IV — ATM 30d | 31% rich · 98 pctile own 1y | IV/HV 1.49× |
| Skew — 25Δ RR 30d | -0.021 81 pctile own 1y | calls bid vs puts (call skew rich) |
| Net dealer OI (NDOI) | +0.20 elevated | 5-session Δ +0.03 (as of 2026-07-09) |
| OI alarm | quiet | last alarm 2025-11-04 (z=3.9) |
| Next earnings | 2026-11-03 (proj) | in 8d |
| CSP screen | rank #26 · $144.4 strike · 0.49% prem | on the CSP screen (2026-10-23) |
Sentiment — last 14 days
daily mean sentiment, 2026-10-03 → 2026-10-16 · now +0.18 (−1 bearish … +1 bullish)
Who spoke17
| author | grade | trader score | signals | mean sent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| @PeloSwing | C | +1.05 | 2 | +0.43 |
| @CHItrader | B | -0.22 | 1 | +0.15 |
| @markflowchatter | B | -0.76 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @jonathanmaze | A | +0.33 | 1 | -0.05 |
| @ConsensusGurus | B | -0.54 | 1 | +0.10 |
| @AIStockSavvy | C | -1.05 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @faststocknewss | C | +1.70 | 1 | +0.05 |
| @ttvresearch | C | +1.59 | 1 | +0.10 |
| @MikeZaccardi | B | +0.60 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @robertojirusta | C | -0.38 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @MarketNews_Feed | C | · | 1 | +0.10 |
| @CNBC | C | +0.31 | 1 | +0.10 |
| @gurgavin | C | -1.04 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @Globalmess65 | C | +1.68 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @CleaRank | C | -1.63 | 1 | +0.05 |
| @BarbarianCap | B | +1.97 | 1 | +0.00 |
| @DarthDividend23 | C | +0.32 | 1 | +0.10 |
Recent signals18of 18 in 14d — receipts included
| date (PT) | author | sent | what they said | since then | receipt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-16 | @DarthDividend23 | +0.10 | Reports KFC favoring Coca-Cola over Pepsi, implying a beverage-supplier relationship change. | -0.5% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-16 | @PeloSwing | +0.25 | Reports over $573K bought in November $160 calls. | -0.5% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @BarbarianCap | +0.00 | KFC is switching thousands of restaurants from Pepsi to Coca-Cola products. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @CleaRank | +0.05 | KFC confirmed a U.S. beverage switch from Pepsi to Coke by spring 2027. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @Globalmess65 | +0.00 | Reports PEP lost a major contract, its second loss to KO. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @gurgavin | +0.00 | Reports KFC ending its longstanding Pepsi partnership and switching U.S. locations to Coca-Cola products. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @CNBC | +0.10 | KFC will switch its U.S. restaurants to Coca-Cola beverages. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @MarketNews_Feed | +0.10 | KFC announced Coca-Cola as its US beverage partner beginning by spring 2027. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @robertojirusta | +0.00 | KFC may replace Pepsi with Coca-Cola as exclusive beverage supplier. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @MikeZaccardi | +0.00 | KFC is replacing Pepsi products with Coca-Cola, shifting a major restaurant beverage relationship. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @ttvresearch | +0.10 | KFC reportedly may replace PepsiCo with Coca-Cola across thousands of restaurants. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @faststocknewss | +0.05 | KFC is in talks to replace Pepsi with Coke at thousands of US restaurants. | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-15 | @AIStockSavvy | +0.00 | WSJ reports KFC plans to replace Pepsi with Coke | -0.7% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-12 | @ConsensusGurus | +0.10 | Questions whether Chipotle nearing Yum's price parity is justified. | +2.0% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-09 | @jonathanmaze | -0.05 | Compares prior-year restaurant same-store sales to identify difficult and easy earnings-season bases. | +3.4% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-06 | @markflowchatter | +0.00 | Labels an attached multi-stock take as pure speculation without stating its direction. | +7.1% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-03 | @CHItrader | +0.15 | Expresses positive AI-related enthusiasm while tagging MCD and YUM, but the connection is unclear. | +10.0% | tweet ↗ |
| 2026-10-03 | @PeloSwing | +0.60 | Says YUM is at converging trendline, horizontal and 200-week support where buyers should step in. | +10.0% | tweet ↗ |
“Since then” = price move from the close on the signal's date (PT) to the latest close — what happened after they said it, not a backtest. A — means no trading session has closed since the signal yet. Sentiment is our extracted per-tweet score, −1…+1.