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McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant brand, with nearly $131 billion in systemwide sales across more than 44,000 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 61%), with the remainder stemming from company-operated restaurants across three segments: the United States (41% of systemwide sales), international operated markets (34%), and international developmental/licensed markets (25%).
McDonald's trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MCD.
As of January 20, 2026, MCD stock price declined to $302.84 with 2,596,754 million shares trading.
MCD has a beta of 0.22, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MCD has a correlation of 0.06 to the broad based SPY ETF.
MCD has a market cap of $216.37 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.
Last quarter McDonald's reported $7 billion in Revenue and $3.22 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-4 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.12.
In the last 3 years, MCD traded as high as $326.32 and as low as $236.77.
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 return of +10.8%, while the SPY ETF gained +15.8%. In the last 3 month period, MCD fell short of the market, returning -0.2%, while SPY returned +2.9%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MCD has outperformed the stock market by returning -0.1%, while SPY returned -0.8%.
MCD support price is $304.43 and resistance is $310.43 (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.
