YUM Technical Analysis - YUM! BRANDS INC

Technical Rating and Analysis

We assign a technical rating of 6 out of 10 to YUM. In the last year, YUM was an average performer in the market. There are positive signs in the very recent evolution, but the medium term picture is still mixed.

The short term trend is positive, while the long term trend is neutral. So this is evolving in the right direction.

YUM is currently trading in the upper part of its 52 week range. The S&P500 Index however is currently trading near a new high, so YUM is lagging the market slightly.

In the last month YUM has a been trading in the 142.35 - 152.81 range, which is quite wide. It is currently trading near the high of this range.

YUM has an average volume of 2015210 traded shares per day. This is a good sign as it is always nice to have a liquid stock.

When compared to the yearly performance of all other stocks, YUM outperforms 55% of them, which is more or less in line with the market.

YUM is part of the Hotels, Restaurants & Leisure industry. There are 134 other stocks in this industry, YUM did better than 66% of them.

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Setup Rating and Analysis

YUM has an average technical rating and it also does not offer a high quality setup at the moment. Price movement has been a little bit too volatile to find a nice entry and exit point. It is probably a good idea to wait for a consolidation first.

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Support and Resistance Analysis

123.10

154.23

We found 6 important support areas.

Support @152.35 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 143.76 to 148.74. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines and important moving averages in multiple time frames.
Strong support @141.38 from a horizontal line in the daily time frame.
A support zone ranging from 138.35 to 139.05. This zone is formed by a combination of multiple trend lines in multiple time frames.
Support @126.93 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.
Support @124.34 from a horizontal line in the weekly time frame.

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Technical Indicator Signal Analysis

The Technical Rating and Setup analysis above combine different indicators and trends in different timeframes. Individual signals from indicators may give more contradictive signals and should always be interpreted in the more global context.

Indicator	Value	Signal	Comment
ChartMill Long Term Trend Indicator	NEUTRAL	NEUTRAL	The long term trend for YUM is neutral.
ChartMill Short Term Trend Indicator	UP	POSITIVE	The short term trend for YUM is up.
ChartMill Relative Strength	55.77	NEUTRAL	YUM is not amongst the best or worst performers on the market.
Simple Moving Average/SMA (20)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of YUM is above the rising SMA(20).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (50)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of YUM is above the rising SMA(50).
Simple Moving Average/SMA (200)	UP	POSITIVE	The current price of YUM is above the rising SMA(200).
Relative Strength Index/RSI (14)	63.82	NEUTRAL	The RSI value for YUM is a neutral value.
Moving Average Convergence Divergence/MACD (12, 26, 9)	0.47	POSITIVE	The MACD value suggests YUM has a positive trend.
Stochastics (14,3)	91.71	OVERBOUGHT	The high Stochastics value suggests YUM may be overbought.
Average True Range in percent/ATR (20)	1.7	LOW VOLATILITY	The low ATR as a percentage value for YUM suggests low volalility.
Average Directional Index/ADX (14)	12.96	NEGATIVE	The low ADX value for YUM suggests a weak or negative trend.