Aramark vs Yum China Holdings, Inc., two Restaurants stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Yum China operates KFC and Pizza Hut across China and generates cash the way Aramark cannot. Yum China throws off a 6.44% free cash flow yield, keeps 7.83% of revenue, returns 15.49% on equity, and runs debt-free while paying a 2.35% dividend. Aramark, a contract caterer and facilities firm, keeps just 1.84% of sales, carries 1.85 debt-to-equity, and posts a negative 5.24% cash yield. On price the gap is wide: Yum China trades at 15.64 times earnings, Aramark at 41.85 times. Both are large, with Yum China at $14.5B and Aramark at $14.9B, but the earnings quality favors the operator in China.
Comparison updated 2026-07-11.
| Metric | ARMK | YUMC |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $57.89 | $43.04 |
| Market cap | $15.4B | $15.2B |
| Sector | Restaurants | Restaurants |
| Stage | Mature | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +23.6% | -1.8% |
| P/E | 43.2 | 16.5 |
| P/B | 4.70 | 2.49 |
| P/S | 0.79 | 1.26 |
| EV/EBITDA | 19.2 | 8.2 |
| Revenue growth | +10.2% | +6.7% |
| Operating margin | 4.5% | 13.7% |
| Net margin | 1.8% | 7.8% |
| Return on equity | 10.9% | 15.5% |
| Return on assets | 2.6% | 8.7% |
| Return on invested capital | 6.7% | 15.9% |
| FCF yield | -5.1% | 6.1% |
| Dividend yield | 0.7% | 2.2% |
| Debt / equity | 1.85 | 0.00 |
| Current ratio | 1.21 | 1.01 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 7.57 | 3.42 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 8 / 9 |
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