McDonald's and Yum! Brands are expanding digital, value and global growth strategies as investors compare restaurant stock opportunities.

Yum! Brands was seeing an improvement in sales even before announcing this sale. Meanwhile, McDonald's is closing in on 50 straight years of dividend increases.

Yum! Brands is selling Pizza Hut in two separate transactions. Yum! authorized a $4 billion share repurchase.

After experiencing underwhelming to outright poor performance recently, several big names in the consumer discretionary sector are loading up on buyback capacity. All three of these moves signal management's confidence in their ability to turn the tide, but each also comes with a unique set of circumstances.

Yum! Brands is selling its Pizza Hut business in two transactions totaling $2.7 billion. The deal allows Yum!

Watch how Pizza Hut lost its grasp on the U.S. pizza market to Domino's, leading to its sale in two separate deals.

Following a review of strategic alternatives initiated earlier this year, Domo, Inc. (NASDAQ:DOMO) said its board has determined that pursuing a strategic transaction is the most effective path to maximize shareholder value.

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YUM is selling Pizza Hut in a $2.7B deal, aiming to streamline operations, boost flexibility and return more capital to shareholders.

“They struggled to figure out what the next big thing was,” an analyst says in the wake of a recently announced private-equity buyout.