Yum! Brands Inc. stock outperforms market on strong trading day

Shares of Yum! Brands Inc. YUM rallied 1.45% to $128.51 Tuesday, on what proved to be an all-around mixed trading session for the stock market, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.31% to 33,733.96 and the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.07% to 4,016.95. This was the stock’s third consecutive day of gains. Yum! Brands Inc. closed $4.36 short of its 52-week high ($132.87), which the company reached on February 9th.

The stock outperformed some of its competitors Tuesday, as McDonald’s Corp. MCD rose 0.10% to $269.56,…