MCD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (McDonald's | NYSE:MCD)

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 globally. 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), internationally operated markets (35%), and internationally developmental/licensed segments (26%).

McDonald's trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol MCD.

As of November 4, 2026, MCD stock price climbed to $280.22 with 10,385,866 million shares trading.

MCD has a beta of 0.17, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. MCD has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

MCD has a market cap of $200.21 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter McDonald's reported $7 billion in Revenue and $3.38 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-57 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.04.

In the last 3 years, MCD traded as high as $341.75 and as low as $229.20.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that MCD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, IVV, SPY, DIA.

MCD has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -2.9%, while SPY returned +13.3%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in MCD shares. However, MCD has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +6.4% and +13.7%, while SPY returned +1.5% and -0.3%, respectively. This indicates MCD has been having a stronger performance recently.

MCD support price is $259.08 and resistance is $267.00 (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.