Yum! Brands News & Media
Pizza Hut parent dips, Papa John's continues ascent
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
As Pizza Hut's parent company, Yum Brands, dipped, Papa John's remained in an upward climb.
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Pizza Inn, Pie Five parent dives, Papa John's soars to all-time high
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The struggle to stay listed on the Nasdaq continues for Rave Restaurant Group, which took another step backward last week, but in Papa John's home turf of…
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Encouraged traders hoist Domino's, Papa John's, Yum Brands stock values
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Though it was a rough week for Pizza Inn and Pie Five parent, Rave Restaurant Group, other major publicly traded pizza companies fared well over the shortened…
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Pizza stocks riding the roller coaster
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
With half of 2020 in the books, Pizza Marketplace looked at stock values for four publicly traded pizza restaurant companies. On paper, the ups and downs…
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Yum Brands lone loser in last week's pizza stock trading
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Most pizza commodity prices, however, made relatively minute moves downward.
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Aside from Domino's, US pizza stocks fall
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Domino's made some gains in stock price last week, though investors were tighter with their purse strings with the remaining publicly traded U.S. pizza brands…
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Domino's dips, as competitors, commodities trade up
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Last week was a bit depressing for Domino's investors as the stock price for the pizza powerhouse dropped almost $10 over the week's trading. But all other…
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Wendy's bears brunt of social media slam around franchisee's Trump donations
June 3, 2020
A large donation to President Donald Trump's reelection PAC made by a franchisee of hundreds of U.S. Wendy's, Taco Bells and Pizza Huts has triggered a social…
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Pleased pizza investors pump up prices of publicly held brands
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
The pandemic has proven that people will get their pizza come hell or high water, and that's continuing to prompt pizza company investors to take positive…
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Cheese, wheat, gas prices climb, as year's top pizza stocks fall
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
All the staple ingredients that pizza restaurant companies depend on were trending up in price last week, indicating the industry's increasing pace forward on…
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Cheese prices soar as restaurants seek more
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
As restaurant pandemic restrictions ease nationally and pizza restaurants continue to add business, cheese producers are getting significantly higher prices…
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Yum Brands announces 47-cent dividend
May 15, 2020
Yum! Brands, Inc. board of directors declared a dividend of 47 cents per share of common stock. The quarterly dividend will be distributed June 12 to…
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Papa is pleased: Good week for pizza trading is great week for Papa John's
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Last week's positive Q1 earnings report for Louisville, Kentucky-based Papa John's made for very happy investors, as the brand posted a pick-up in value over…
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Pizza stocks, gas + cheese prices reverse price trends in topsy-turvy trading week
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza share prices and commodities trading last week were in a role-reversal kind of mood, with some of the winning brands of recent weeks falling in value…
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Taco Bell shines as sole bright spot in Yum Brands Q1 sales
April 30, 2020
Though KFC, Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and The Habit Burger Grille parent, Yum Brands, recorded a Q1 same-store sales decline of 7% after the tumultuous first…
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Pizza brand trading proves Americans can get through anything with 'nice, hot slice or two'
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
As most Americans head into yet another week of stay-at-home orders, pizza trading shows investors know that for a lot of us, ordering pizza has become a key…
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All things considered? A pretty good week to be a pizza restaurateur
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Domino's and Papa John's, as well as the parent companies of Pizza Hut, Pie Five and Pizza Inn, all played favorites with investors last week, with the…
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Something to smile about: Domino's, Pizza Hut, Papa John's, Rave shares all up
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Pizza brand stock values are up and gas prices keep going down. So, how's that for something to take the gray right out of a locked-down, mid-pandemic day's…
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Yum Brands CEO relinquishes salary to fund GM bonuses, employee aid fund
March 31, 2020
The CEO of Louisville-based QSR and pizza brand parent, Yum Brands, is contributing his salary for the remainder of the year to fund one-time $1,000 bonuses…
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Domino's climbs, Rave crashes in volatile pandemic-era pizza trading
by S.A. Whitehead — Food Editor, Net World Media Group
Scale and an owned delivery system are both paying off for pizza brand, Domino's, as skittish investors show their support for the world's biggest pizza…
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