)
)
Edge16 Oct 2026
Winner, Winner: The Chicken McNugget Story
How a 1940s breeding contest, a Cornell food scientist, and a hedge by Ray Dalio helped McDonald's turn the Chicken McNugget into a fast-food icon.
KFC
KFC (3420) investor relations material
KFC Q2 2027 earnings summary
Complete event summary combining all related documents: earnings call transcript, report, and slide presentation.Q2 2027 earnings summary5 Nov, 2026
Executive summary
H1 FY2027 revenue fell 13.0% YoY to ¥10.69bn, while operating profit rose 116.3% to ¥575m, ordinary profit rose 110.0% to ¥670m and net income rose 112.3% to ¥457m.
Profitability benefited from completing additional contract agreements on certain large construction projects, including work started ahead of contract finalization.
Financial highlights
H1 revenue was ¥10.69bn versus ¥12.28bn a year earlier; operating profit was ¥575m versus ¥265m, ordinary profit ¥670m versus ¥319m, and net income ¥457m versus ¥215m.
Comprehensive income increased to ¥701m from ¥400m, including a ¥255m gain in other securities valuation differences.
Outlook and guidance
FY2027 guidance remains unchanged: revenue ¥27.0bn, operating profit ¥1.50bn, ordinary profit ¥1.60bn and net income ¥1.08bn.
FY2027 EPS guidance is ¥146.75; the forecast full-year dividend is ¥70 per share, versus ¥65 for FY2026.
Partial view of Summaries dataset, powered by Quartr API
AI can get things wrong. Verify important information.Research faster. Power your platform.
Latest events from KFC
- FY2023 earnings fell on project delays and cost inflation; FY2024 guidance projects a revenue rebound.3420
Q4 2023 - Net income jumped 122.9% year-over-year despite a 7.0% revenue decline in Q1 FY2027.3420Q1 2027
- Sales up 16.5% year-over-year, but higher costs resulted in a quarterly net loss.3420Q1 2025
- Revenue up 7.6% YoY, profit down over 50% on higher costs; outlook and dividend unchanged.3420Q2 2025
- Revenue up 5.2% year-over-year, but net income down 2.2% on higher costs.3420Q3 2025
- Revenue up 4.0% YoY, profits down; FY2026 sees modest growth and a ¥60 dividend.3420Q4 2025
- Q1 FY2026 saw 8.4% revenue growth and a return to profitability, with guidance maintained.3420Q1 2026
- Net income surged 126.3% year-over-year, driven by strong construction and fastener sales.3420Q2 2026
- Revenue fell 2.0%, but net income rose and strong profit growth is forecast for next year.3420Q4 2026
Next KFC earnings date
Q3 20274 Feb, 2027
KFC
Next KFC earnings date
Q3 20274 Feb, 2027
AI chat
Ask anything. Verify everything.
Ask across every event and document from public companies. Each answer links back to the exact line in the transcript, slide or filing it came from.Learn moreFind what matters
AI across all first-party IR material. Live calls, transcripts, slides, filings.)
Trust every finding
50m+ first-party documents. Every output traceable to its source.Find what matters
AI across all first-party IR material. Live calls, transcripts, slides, filings.Trust every finding
50m+ first-party documents. Every output traceable to its source.Automations
Zero in on what matters
Define the prompt once. It runs the moment a company publishes or on a schedule you set. Outputs map to the exact signals you choose.Learn more)
Event-triggered research
Runs when a company publishes new material. Trigger on the first published document for the earliest possible run, or wait for a specific one.)
Scheduled research
Runs on a recurring cadence you set. Daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, for aggregate reads across a period rather than a single event.Event-triggered research
Runs when a company publishes new material. Trigger on the first published document for the earliest possible run, or wait for a specific one.Scheduled research
Runs on a recurring cadence you set. Daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly, for aggregate reads across a period rather than a single event.Live audio & transcripts
Be first
Join any earnings call live in one click, with no manual registration. Follow the transcript as it happens and jump straight to the moments that matter.Learn more)
Live earnings calls
Join any call in one click. The audio keeps playing while you work elsewhere in Quartr.)
Live transcripts
Speaker-by-speaker, in real time. Searchable across every live and historical call.Live earnings calls
Join any call in one click. The audio keeps playing while you work elsewhere in Quartr.Live transcripts
Speaker-by-speaker, in real time. Searchable across every live and historical call.Quartr MCP connects your AI environment to 17K+ public companies
Pull live transcripts, filings, and slides into Claude or Codex via MCP. Combine Quartr's global IR data with any other dataset. Run agentic research and monitoring.
Included with Quartr Pro at no extra cost.Learn more
Quartr's AI stands out because it only pulls clean, first-party data from public companies. In investing, that's everything.
Jamie Ross
Investment Manager, GAM Investments
GAM
GAM
Research that used to take hours now takes seconds with Quartr Pro. Tracking shifts in tone or extracting tables, it's as simple as typing a query.
Tom O'Hara
Investment Director
Ciena
Ciena
Before Quartr we spent hours manually compiling insights through the peer earnings cycle. Now, these tasks are done faster, with greater precision.
Gregg Lampf
VP of Investor Relations
Protean
Protean
Being able to ask specific questions across years of transcripts and reports and instantly get verified answers is a game-changer.
Pontus Dackmo
CEO & Investment Manager
)
)