CVS Health Corp vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? CVS Health Corp trades at $93.32 (market cap $122.36B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $144.75 (market cap $39.66B). The key difference: CVS Health Corp is far larger — about 3.1× Yum! Brands, Inc.'s market cap, and CVS Health Corp pays the higher dividend (2.78%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| CVS | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $122.36B | $39.66B |
Sector | Health | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $110.60 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $65.51 | $138.21 |
Enterprise Value | $184.71B | $51.26B |
Dividend Yield | 2.78% | 2.06% |
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Following its acquisition of Aetna in late 2018, CVS Health now provides an even more integrated healthcare-services offering for its members. Legacy CVS combined both the largest pharmacy benefit manager, processing over 2 billion adjusted claims annually, and a sizable pharmacy operation, including nearly 10,000 retail pharmacy locations primarily in the U.S. Adding a managed-care organization with 24 million medical members gives the company a strong position in the insurance industry and should help CVS better control overall healthcare costs for its clients.
Read more on CVS →Yum Brands is a U.S.-based restaurant operator featuring a portfolio of four brands: KFC (26,930 global units), Pizza Hut (18,380 units), Taco Bell (7,790 units), and The Habit Burger (310 units) at year-end 2021. With $58 billion in 2021 systemwide sales, the firm is the second-largest restaurant company in the world, behind McDonald's ($112.5 billion) but ahead of Restaurant Brands International ($36 billion) and Starbucks ($25 billion). Yum is 98% franchised, with the largest franchisee, Yum China, created via a 2016 spinoff transaction (after which Yum China agreed to pay 3% royalties to Yum Brands in perpetuity). Yum is the newest evolution of Tricon Brands, formerly a division of PepsiCo, and generates the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and marketing contributions.
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