Shares of Yum! Brands Inc. YUM, -2.09% dropped 0.92% to $122.58 Monday, on what proved to be an all-around grim trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX, -1.55% falling 0.24% to 4,373.94 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -1.76% falling 0.49% to 33,892.60. Yum! Brands Inc. closed $17.27 short of its 52-week high ($139.85), which the company achieved on December 29th.
The stock demonstrated a mixed performance when compared to some of its competitors Monday, as McDonald’s Corp. MCD, -2.10% fell 1.33% to $244.77, Starbucks Corp. SBUX, -1.80% fell 0.85% to $91.79, and Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG, -2.32% rose 1.76% to $1,523.35. Trading volume (2.2 M) eclipsed its 50-day average volume of 1.9 M.