Earnings Preview: Yum! Brands (YUM)

Yum! Brands, Inc. (NYSE: YUM) will report fourth quarter (2009) earnings after the market closes on Wednesday. The consensus EPS estimate is a gain of $0.48, which is a modest increase from the gain of $0.46 per share in the same quarter a year earlier.

Yum! Brands, Inc. has topped estimates in each of its last four quarters, by anywhere from one to twelve cents.