Yum China Holdings, Inc. (YUMC) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

Investor webinar replay

Replay transcript excerpt

Good day and thank you for standing by. Welcome to the Yum China first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. At this time all participants are in a listen only mode. After the speaker's presentation there will be a question and answer session. To ask a question during the session you will need to press star 1 and 1 on your telephone. You will then hear an automated message advising your hand is raised. To withdraw your question please press star 1 and 1 again. Please be advised, today's conference is being recorded. I'd now like to hand the conference over to your first speaker today, Senior IR Director, Florence Lipp. Please go ahead. Thank you, operator. Hello, everyone, and welcome to Yum! China's first quarter 2026 earnings conference call. With me on the call are our CEO, Ms. Joey Watt, and our CFO, Mr. Adrian Ding. Before we begin, I will remind everyone that our remarks and investor materials contain forward-looking statements. These are subject to future events and uncertainties, and actual results may differ materially. Please refer these forward-looking statements together with the cautionary statement in our earnings release and the risk factors included in our SEC filing. We'll also be talking about non-GAAP financial measures. We encourage you to review the comparable gap measures along with the reconciliation of non-gap and gap measures provided in our earnings release, which is available on our investor relations website at ir.yamchina.com. You can also find both the webcast replay and our PowerPoint presentation on our IR website. Please note that all year-over-year growth rates discussed today exclude the impact of foreign currency unless we mention otherwise. With that, I'll now turn the call over to Joey Watt, CEO of Yum China. Joey? Hello, everyo...