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 3, 2026, MCD stock price declined to $263.04 with 5,632,934 million shares trading.

MCD has a beta of 0.15, 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 $187.93 billion. This is considered a Large 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 -9.4%, while the SPY ETF gained +11.7%. In the last 3 month period, MCD fell short of the market, returning -2.1%, while SPY returned +1.2%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks MCD has outperformed the stock market by returning +8.4%, while SPY returned -1.6%.

MCD support price is $261.70 and resistance is $269.58 (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.