Morgan Stanley raised the firm’s price target on Yum! Brands (YUM) to $153 from $151 and keeps an Equal Weight rating on the shares. With industry demand improved, the firm sees a likely better quarter for restaurants and food distributors than Q1, the analyst tells investors in a research note. Ongoing policy noise remains a risk but middle/upper income customer cohorts remain solid, and costs are mostly benign, the firm argues.
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