Lumen Technologies Inc vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? Lumen Technologies Inc trades at $6.76 (market cap $6.47B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $148 (market cap $40.62B). The key difference: Yum! Brands, Inc. is far larger — about 6.3× Lumen Technologies Inc's market cap, and Yum! Brands, Inc. pays a 2.04% dividend while Lumen Technologies Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| LUMN | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $6.47B | $40.62B |
Sector | Media | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $11.83 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $3.70 | $138.21 |
Enterprise Value | $18.10B | $51.88B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.04% |
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With 450,000 route miles of fiber, including over 35,000 route miles of subsea fiber connecting Europe, Asia, and Latin America, Lumen Technologies is one of the United States' largest telecommunications carriers serving global enterprises. Its merger with Level 3 further shifted the company's operations toward businesses (over 70% of revenue) and away from its legacy consumer business. Lumen offers businesses a full menu of communications services, providing colocation and data center services, data transportation, and end-user phone and internet service. On the consumer side, Lumen provides broadband and phone service across 37 states, where it has 4.5 million broadband customers.
Read more on LUMN →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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