MCD · NYSE · Consumer Discretionary · Restaurants
Next earnings: November 4, 2026
$236.50-0.2%Sep 25 close
McDonald’s sells meals and drinks through company-run restaurants and earns rent, royalties and fees from franchised and licensed restaurants.
Built from McDonald's Corp.’s own filings with the SEC. Figures are as reported, with per-share history restated onto today’s share basis. This describes a business — it is not investment advice and not a recommendation to buy or sell anything.
McDonald’s serves food and drinks at restaurants it owns and runs, and through restaurants run by franchisees and licensees. For many conventional franchises, McDonald’s owns or leases the restaurant site and earns rent and royalties based partly on sales. Licensees generally provide the restaurant investment and pay royalties based on sales.
Shares of revenue are estimates for quarter ended March 31, 2026, high confidence, not figures from a filing.
Core beef, chicken and beverage menu
The main food and drink categories McDonald’s identifies as central to its menu.
McValue menu and Extra Value Meals
Everyday value-priced menu choices and bundled meals sold at participating restaurants.
Beverage range
A range that includes crafted sodas, refreshers, cold coffee and energy drinks.
McCrispy
A chicken sandwich featured in market-specific menu promotions.
K-Pop Demon Hunters meal
A limited-time promotional meal that restaurants prepared and promoted during the quarter discussed on the earnings call.
Three ratings, each a percentile against the 50 companies we cover in Restaurants. Deliberately kept apart rather than blended into one score — cheap, rising and well-run are three different facts, and a single number would hide which one is which.
Middle of its industry
The most recent month is left out on purpose: returns tend to persist over 7–12 months and the newest one tends to reverse. This describes what the price has done, and says nothing about what it will do.
Middle of its industry
Yields, so higher means cheaper — a loss-making company ranks last instead of dropping out. Cheap is not the same as good: a high yield is often a price that fell for a reason. Blended from 4 of 5 measures.
1 check not reported
What management does with the money — scored on whatever the filings answer, never as a share of the total.
A description of where this company sits among its competitors, not a recommendation. Ratings updated Sep 26, 2026.
Is the business getting bigger, and does it generate real cash?
Showing 2 of 41 quarters of McDonald's Corp.’s grade history. The other 39 go back to September 2016.