Smith & Nephew plc vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? Smith & Nephew plc trades at $30.45 (market cap $12.64B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $148 (market cap $40.62B). The key difference: Yum! Brands, Inc. is far larger — about 3.2× Smith & Nephew plc's market cap, and Smith & Nephew plc pays the higher dividend (2.57%). Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SNN | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $12.64B | $40.62B |
Sector | Health | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $38.70 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $28.73 | $138.21 |
Enterprise Value | $15.41B | $51.88B |
Dividend Yield | 2.57% | 2.04% |
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Latest headlines on both assets
Smith & Nephew designs, manufactures, and markets orthopedic devices, sports medicine and arthroscopic technologies, and wound-care solutions. Roughly 42% of the U.K.-based firm's revenue comes from orthopedic products, and another 30% is sports medicine and ENT. The remaining 28% of revenue is from the advanced wound therapy segment. Roughly half of Smith & Nephew's total revenue comes from the United States, just over 30% is from other developed markets, and emerging markets account for the remainder.
Read more on SNN →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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