Yum! Brands, Inc. filings document the public-company record for a franchised restaurant operator with KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Habit Burger brands. Form 8-K reports cover quarterly and annual results, earnings releases, board changes, bylaw amendments and material agreements tied to the company's restaurant-system financing structure.
Proxy materials describe director elections, executive compensation, shareholder-meeting procedures and governance practices. Other disclosures address Yum!'s NYSE-listed common stock, subsidiary financing arrangements, senior secured notes, restricted-group debt information and capital-structure matters associated with a large global quick-service restaurant franchisor.
Yum! Brands director Connor M. Christopher received 1,841.2815 phantom stock units on February 6, 2026. The award was granted at a price of $0 per unit and is reported as directly owned, bringing his total phantom stock holdings to 1,841.2815 units.
The phantom stock converts into Yum! Brands common stock on a one-for-one basis and is issued under the Director Deferred Compensation Plan. According to the disclosure, these phantom units do not have expiration dates, and payments will be made in line with elections on file.
YUM! Brands director Brian C. Cornell reported receiving phantom stock awards. On February 6, 2026, he acquired 1,718.5294 phantom stock units and a separate grant of 1,043.3929 units at a price of $0 per unit.
The phantom stock converts into YUM! Brands common stock on a one-for-one basis, with payments made according to elections on file under the company’s Director Deferred Compensation Plan. These phantom units do not have expiration dates and are held as direct derivative holdings.
Yum Brands Chief Financial Officer Roy Ranjith reported new equity awards. On February 6, 2026, he received 2,686 restricted stock units, each convertible into one share of common stock. These units vest 25% per year beginning one year from the grant date and have no expiration date.
He was also granted 11,279 stock appreciation rights with an exercise price of $162.93 per share, expiring on February 6, 2036. All awards are held directly, and the filing reports no share sales, only these grants.
YUM! Brands executive Scott Mezvinsky reported multiple equity awards dated 02/06/2026. He received 4,604 restricted stock units and a stock appreciation right for 19,335 shares with a conversion or exercise price of $162.93. Both convert into common stock on a one-for-one basis.
The awards vest 25% per year beginning one year from the grant date. Mezvinsky was also credited with 6,361.9346 and 2,120.6449 phantom stock units under the YUM! Brands Executive Income Deferral Program, which are settled in common stock according to elections on file and do not have expiration dates.
YUM Brands director Annie Young-Scrivner reported receiving additional common shares in the company. On February 6, 2026, she acquired 1,718 shares of YUM Brands common stock at a reported price of $0.00 per share. After this transaction, she directly owned 3,897 shares of YUM Brands common stock.
YUM Brands Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary Erika Burkhardt reported new equity awards granted on February 6, 2026. She received 2,072 restricted stock units that convert into common shares on a one-for-one basis and vest 25% per year beginning one year from the grant date.
She was also granted a stock appreciation right over 8,701 shares exercisable until February 6, 2036, and 1,471.2208 phantom stock units under the YUM! Brands Executive Income Deferral Program. All awards were reported as acquired at a price of $0, reflecting compensatory grants rather than open-market purchases.
Yum Brands Inc. reported an insider stock sale by Aaron Powell, CEO of Pizza Hut. On February 5, 2026, he sold 12,000 shares of common stock at $161.44 per share. After this transaction, he directly owns 14,650.48 shares of Yum Brands common stock.
YUM Brands shareholder Aaron Powell has filed a notice to sell 12,000 shares of YUM common stock through Merrill Lynch on the NYSE, with an aggregate market value of 1937370.73. The filing lists 277535696 YUM common shares outstanding and an approximate sale date of 02/05/2026.
The shares to be sold were acquired through multiple restricted stock vesting events from 02/11/2023 through 11/12/2024, including lots of 763, 4512, 797, 804, and 5124 shares. Over the past three months, Powell previously sold 2790 YUM common shares on 11/11/2025 for gross proceeds of 419845.9.
Yum! Brands, Inc. filed a Form 8-K to report that it issued a press release covering its financial results for the quarter and year ended December 31, 2025. The company attached this press release as Exhibit 99.1, along with an Inline XBRL cover page file as Exhibit 104.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. filed an amended Schedule 13G to report its beneficial ownership of common stock of Yum! Brands, Inc. (listed as “! BRANDS, INC.”). JPMorgan reports beneficial ownership of 20,055,649 shares, representing 7.2% of the outstanding common stock as of the event date 12/31/2025.
The filing breaks down JPMorgan’s powers over these shares, including sole voting power over 17,678,445 shares and shared voting power over 215,513 shares. It also reports sole dispositive power over 19,951,509 shares and shared dispositive power over 104,060 shares.
JPMorgan certifies that the shares were acquired and are held in the ordinary course of business and not for the purpose of changing or influencing control of Yum! Brands, consistent with a passive institutional investor filing on Schedule 13G.