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McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant brand, with nearly $139 billion in systemwide sales across more than 45,000 restaurants and over 100 markets. The quick-service chain built its early reputation on speed, consistency, and affordable hamburgers, and today its global menu spans burgers, chicken, breakfast, and beverages that have helped popularize American fast-food cuisine worldwide. The firm derives the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and rent (about 62%), with the remainder stemming from company-operated restaurants across three segments: the United States (39% of systemwide sales), international operated markets (35%), and international developmental/licensed markets (26%).
McDonald's trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MCD.
As of April 24, 2026, MCD stock price declined to $299.36 with 3,408,427 million shares trading.
MCD has a beta of 0.25, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MCD has a correlation of 0.05 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MCD has a market cap of $213.88 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
Last quarter McDonald's reported $7 billion in Revenue and $3.12 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $177 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.07.
In the last 3 years, MCD traded as high as $341.75 and as low as $243.53.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that MCD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, VUG.
MCD has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -3.0% while the SPY ETF gained +31.9%. MCD has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -2.6% and -2.1%, respectively, while the SPY returned +3.8% and +5.1%, respectively.
MCD support price is $299.32 and resistance is $305.74 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that MCD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
