Banco Santander SA vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? Banco Santander SA trades at $13.74 (market cap $191.46B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $148 (market cap $40.62B). The key difference: Banco Santander SA is far larger — about 4.7× Yum! Brands, Inc.'s market cap, and Banco Santander SA pays the higher dividend (2.09%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAN | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $191.46B | $40.62B |
Sector | Financials | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $14.37 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $8.40 | $138.21 |
Dividend Yield | 2.09% | 2.04% |
Enterprise Value | — | $51.88B |
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Santander's focus is on retail and commercial banking. Latin America is geographically the largest operation, with Brazil by far the largest. Its continental European business is still mainly Iberian. Santander's U.K. presence is the result of the acquisition of building society Abbey. In the U.S., Santander operates a vehicle finance business and a regional bank focused on the Northeastern states.
Read more on SAN →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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