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Fair value327.96Plus-16%237Price 275.43450
Q4 FY2026 · Earnings report
EPS estimate 3.20Revenue estimate 7.09B
Q4 FY2026 · Earnings report
EPS estimate 3.20Revenue estimate 7.09B
If you had invested in McDonald's ago, it would be worth $3,024 today, against $4,096 in SPY and $6,368 in QQQ.
Arincen ScoreWhat is the Arincen Score? The Arincen Score grades a company out of 100 from 30 checks on its own reported figures, five checks in each of six parts.Beta
80/100
Six parts of the company, five checks each, from its own reported figures. A part scores the checks it passes out of 10; the score is their average out of 100.
Profitability10
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Cash10
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Valuation8
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Growth8
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Financial strength6
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Shareholders6
Plus shows the checks behind each part of the score, what passed, what failed and the figure it read, for every stock.
Figures to FY2025; the price as of today.
McDonald's key facts
- StyleWhat does a stock's style mean? The style label sorts a stock as growth, value, dividend, blend or speculative, with a 1 to 10 meter showing how strongly it fits.
- Dividend stock · 7.2/10Growth 3.6 · Value 6.1 · Dividend 7.2
- Day range
- 273.13 – 275.62
- 52-week range
- 229.20 – 341.75
- Market capitalizationWhat is market capitalization? Market cap is what the stock market values a whole company at: its share price times the number of its shares outstanding.
- 194.39B USD
- P/EWhat is the P/E ratio? The P/E ratio divides a share's price by its earnings per share over the last year: what you pay for each dollar of profit.
- 21.76
- PEG ratioWhat is the PEG ratio? The PEG ratio divides the P/E by the yearly earnings growth analysts expect, to show how much you pay for each point of growth.
- 3.24
- EPSWhat is EPS (earnings per share)? EPS (earnings per share) is a company's net income divided by its number of shares: the profit that belongs to each share over a period.
- 12.66
- Div YieldWhat is dividend yield? Dividend yield is a year of dividends as a percentage of the share price: the income a shareholder receives for each dollar invested at today's price.
- 2.80%
- EPS growth forecast (FY2026)
- +6.1%
- Volume
- 21,093
- BetaWhat is beta in stocks? Beta measures how much a stock tends to move when the whole market moves: 1 moves with it, under 1 is calmer, over 1 swings more.
- 0.43
- ESG scoreWhat is an ESG score? An ESG score rates how a company handles the environment, its people and its governance, out of 100. Higher is better.
- 62.6/100Environment 58 · Social 61 · Governance 69
- Sector
- Consumer Cyclical
- Industry
- Restaurants
- CEO
- Christopher J. Kempczinski
- Employees
- 150K
- Website
- mcdonalds.com
- IPO date
- 21 Apr 1965
McDonald's earningsWhat is an earnings surprise? An earnings surprise is how far a company's reported EPS or revenue came above or below the analysts' average estimate, in percent.
Next earnings · Q4 FY2026
EPS estimate
3.20 USD
Revenue estimate
7.09B USD
Last quarter · Q3 FY2026
EPS3.57Beat +5.6%Revenue7.16BMissed -1.7%
Revenue
ReportedEstimate
EPS
ReportedEstimate
| Period | Report date | EPS estimate | Reported EPS | Surprise | EPS growth | Revenue estimate | Reported revenue | Surprise | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 FY2028 | 3.81 | — | — | — | 7.07B | — | — | — | |
| Q2 FY2028 | 3.67 | — | — | — | 7.01B | — | — | — | |
| Q1 FY2028 | 3.17 | — | — | — | 6.54B | — | — | — | |
| Q4 FY2026 | 3.20 | — | — | +2.56% | 7.09B | — | — | +1.19% | |
| Q3 FY2026 | 3.38 | 3.57 | +5.62% | +10.87% | 7.28B | 7.16B | -1.75% | +1.12% | |
| Q2 FY2026 | 3.32 | 3.38 | +1.81% | +5.96% | 7.13B | 7.10B | -0.42% | +3.74% | |
| Q1 FY2026 | 2.74 | 2.83 | +3.28% | +5.99% | 6.47B | 6.52B | +0.71% | +9.44% | |
| Q4 FY2025 | 3.05 | 3.12 | +2.30% | +10.25% | 6.84B | 7.01B | +2.50% | +9.72% | |
| Q3 FY2025 | 3.33 | 3.22 | -3.30% | -0.31% | 7.08B | 7.08B | -0.09% | +2.97% | |
| Q2 FY2025 | 3.14 | 3.19 | +1.59% | +7.41% | 6.70B | 6.84B | +2.17% | +5.44% |
| Period | EPS estimate | Reported EPS | Surprise | EPS growth | Revenue estimate | Reported revenue | Surprise | Revenue growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FY2028 | 14.52 | — | — | +5.97% | 27.45B | — | — | -2.52% |
| FY2027 | 13.70 | — | — | +5.88% | 28.16B | — | — | +1.00% |
| FY2026 | 12.94 | — | — | +6.08% | 27.88B | — | — | +3.72% |
| FY2025 | 12.14 | 12.20 | +0.50% | +4.01% | 26.69B | 26.89B | +0.73% | +3.72% |
| FY2024 | 11.76 | 11.73 | -0.29% | -1.76% | 25.99B | 25.92B | -0.26% | +1.68% |
| FY2023 | 11.80 | 11.94 | +1.19% | +18.22% | 25.53B | 25.49B | -0.15% | +9.97% |
| FY2022 | 9.97 | 10.10 | +1.27% | +8.84% | 22.99B | 23.18B | +0.86% | -0.17% |
Analysts' estimates for FY2026 over the last 7 days:EPS Revenue How the estimates moved
McDonald's analyst forecastWhat is the analyst rating? The analyst rating sums up what the analysts covering a stock recommend, from strong buy to strong sell, by the share of them rating it a buy.
12-month price target
283.58 USD
+2.96%
Analysts' 1-year price targets range from 230.00 to 325.00, with an average of 283.58.
Past year
1-year forecast
Strong sellStrong buy
Buy
25 ratings
| Buy | 15 | |
| Hold | 9 | |
| Sell | 1 |
12-month price target
| Highest target | 325.00 |
| Average target | 283.58 |
| Lowest target | 230.00 |
| Current price | 275.43 |
McDonald's valuationWhat is the P/E ratio? The P/E ratio divides a share's price by its earnings per share over the last year: what you pay for each dollar of profit.
- Price to earnings ratio (TTM)What is the P/E ratio? The P/E ratio divides a share's price by its earnings per share over the last year: what you pay for each dollar of profit.
- 21.76
- Forward P/E (FY2026)What is the forward P/E ratio? Forward P/E divides a share's price by the earnings per share analysts expect in the coming year, rather than last year's actual earnings.
- 21.28
- Price to sales (TTM)What is the P/S ratio? The price-to-sales ratio compares a company's market value with its revenue over the last year: what you pay for each dollar of sales.
- 7.00
- EV / EBITDA (TTM)What is EV/EBITDA? EV/EBITDA compares a company's whole value, debt included and cash taken off, with a year of its earnings before interest, tax and depreciation.
- 16.81
Capital structureWhat is enterprise value? Enterprise value is what the whole business costs: the market value of its shares plus its debt minus its cash. It is the price behind EV/EBITDA.
Market capitalization
194.39B USD
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Total debt
54.54B USD
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Cash and short-term investments
1.19B USD
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Enterprise value
247.74B USD
Valuation over time
P/EForward P/EForward P/E · EstimateEstimate
McDonald's against its own historyWhat does "against its own history" show? The company's latest margins, return on equity, growth, debt and P/E against its own last 5 years: the low, the median and the high, and whether this year is better or worse than usual.
Each figure in the latest fiscal year against the same figure from FY2021 to FY2025: the range, its median (the line) and the latest (the dot, green on the good side of the median). The P/E is today's against its daily readings of five years.
Its peers: Starbucks, Yum! Brands, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Restaurant Brands International, and Darden Restaurants, the US Restaurants companies closest to it in size, each in its own latest fiscal year: their median (the line) and its rank among them, first being the best.
- P/E (today)Below its median21.818.735.5
- Gross marginHighest in 5 years57.4%54.2%57.4%Against its peers: 2 of 6Peers' median 41.1%
- Operating marginHighest in 5 years46.1%40.4%46.1%Against its peers: 1 of 6Peers' median 16.9%
- Net marginAt its median31.9%26.6%33.2%Against its peers: 1 of 6Peers' median 9.1%
- Free cash flow marginAt its median26.7%23.7%30.6%Against its peers: 1 of 6Peers' median 12.1%
- Revenue growthAt its median3.7%-0.2%20.9%Against its peers: 5 of 6Peers' median 8.8%
- EPS growthAt its median4.9%-17.0%59.1%Against its peers: 4 of 6Peers' median 6.5%
- Debt to EBITDABelow its median3.73×3.72×4.47×Against its peers: 3 of 6Peers' median 3.83×
- Current ratioLowest in 5 years0.950.951.78Against its peers: 4 of 6Peers' median 0.98
Peers: US companies of the same industry (of its sector when the industry has too few) from a tenth to ten times its market value, the six closest in size. Updated weekly.
McDonald's growth and profitabilityWhat are gross, operating and net profit margins? A profit margin is the share of revenue kept as profit: gross margin after the cost of sales, operating margin after running costs, net margin after all costs.
- Revenue (TTM)What does TTM (trailing twelve months) mean? TTM (trailing twelve months) is a figure over the latest twelve months of reports: usually the last four quarters added together.
- 27.78B USD
- Net income (TTM)What is an income statement? The income statement shows a company's revenue, costs and profit over a quarter or a year, from sales at the top to net income at the bottom.
- 9.00B USD
- Gross marginWhat are gross, operating and net profit margins? A profit margin is the share of revenue kept as profit: gross margin after the cost of sales, operating margin after running costs, net margin after all costs.
- 57.20%
- Operating margin
- 46.94%
- Net margin
- 32.38%
Revenue / Net income
Revenue Net income Net margin
McDonald's revenue breakdown
By product
FY2025
50.7%High-Growth Markets40.3%UNITED STATES9.0%International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate
| Segment | Revenue | Share of revenue | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| High-Growth Markets | 13.63B | 50.7% | +8.0% |
| UNITED STATES | 10.83B | 40.3% | +1.8% |
| International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate | 2.43B | 9.0% | -8.8% |
By region
FY2025
50.7%International Operated Markets40.3%United States9.0%International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate
| Region | Revenue | Share of revenue | Change on the year |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Operated Markets | 13.63B | 50.7% | +8.0% |
| United States | 10.83B | 40.3% | +1.8% |
| International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate | 2.43B | 9.0% | -8.8% |
How McDonald's makes its moneyWhat is an income statement? The income statement shows a company's revenue, costs and profit over a quarter or a year, from sales at the top to net income at the bottom.
High-Growth Markets13.63B 50.7%
UNITED STATES10.83B 40.3%
International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate2.43B 9.0%
Revenue26.89B 100.0%
Cost of revenue11.45B 42.6%
Gross profit15.44B 57.4%
Selling and administration3.04B 11.3%
Other operating expenses3.00M 0.0%
Operating income12.39B 46.1%
Tax2.33B 8.7%
Other expense1.50B 5.6%
Net income8.56B 31.9%
FY2025, in USD. Each band is as wide as its money; the percentage is its share of revenue.
FY2025, in USD. Each band is as wide as its money; the percentage is its share of revenue.
McDonald's dividendsWhat is dividend yield? Dividend yield is a year of dividends as a percentage of the share price: the income a shareholder receives for each dollar invested at today's price.
- Annual dividend
- 7.72 USD
- Dividend yield (indicated)What is dividend yield? Dividend yield is a year of dividends as a percentage of the share price: the income a shareholder receives for each dollar invested at today's price.
- 2.80%
- Payout ratioWhat is the payout ratio? The payout ratio is the share of a company's earnings paid out as dividends: dividends per share divided by earnings per share (EPS).
- 74.01%
- Years of dividend growthWhat are years of dividend growth? The years in a row a company has raised its dividend per share. 25 years make an S&P 500 company a Dividend Aristocrat; 50 make a Dividend King.
- 50
- Frequency
- Quarterly
- Next payment
- 1.93 USD
- Next ex-dividend dateWhat is the ex-dividend date? The ex-dividend date is the first day a stock trades without its next dividend: buy before it to receive the payment; buy on or after it and the seller gets it.
- 1 Dec 2026
- Next payment date
- 15 Dec 2026
Dividends per share
McDonald's financial health
- Cash and short-term investments
- 1.19B USD
- Total debt
- 54.54B USD
- Net cash
- -53.34B USD
- Free cash flow (TTM)What is free cash flow (FCF)? Free cash flow is the cash a company's operations bring in minus what it spends on long-term assets (capex): cash left for debt, dividends and buybacks.
- 7.49B USD
- Current ratioWhat is the current ratio? The current ratio is current assets divided by current liabilities: whether what a company will turn into cash within a year covers what it owes within a year.
- 1.23
- Piotroski scoreWhat is the Piotroski F-Score? The Piotroski F-Score rates a company's financial strength from 0 to 9: one point for each of nine tests of profit, debt and efficiency it passes.
- 7 / 9
- Altman Z-scoreWhat is the Altman Z-Score? The Altman Z-Score rolls five financial ratios into one number that signals a company's risk of bankruptcy: over 3 is safe, under 1.8 is distress.
- 4.80
Cash, debt and free cash flow
Cash and short-term investments Total debt Free cash flow
McDonald's ownershipWhat is institutional ownership? Institutional ownership is the share of a company's stock held by funds, banks and other investment managers, as they report it each quarter on Form 13F.
- InstitutionsWhat is institutional ownership? Institutional ownership is the share of a company's stock held by funds, banks and other investment managers, as they report it each quarter on Form 13F.
- 75.09%
- Institutional holders
- 3,588 (-109)
- Free floatWhat is free float? Free float is the part of a company's shares that anyone can buy and sell: all its shares minus those held by insiders, founders and owners of over 5%.
- 99.95%
Who owns the shares
Institutions 75.1% Others 24.9%
As of 30 Jun 2026
Shares free to trade
Free float 705.46M shares ·100.0% Closely held 326.07K shares ·0.0%
Closely held shares belong to insiders, founders and owners of more than 5%, and seldom change hands. The free float is the rest: the shares anyone can buy and sell.
Insider trading
| Quarter | Purchases | Sales | Shares acquired | Shares disposed of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Q3 2026 | 0 | 0 | 1.45K | 1.34K |
| Q2 2026 | 0 | 5 | 8.23K | 19.19K |
| Q1 2026 | 0 | 11 | 545.35K | 222.26K |
| Q4 2025 | 0 | 6 | 49.32K | 84.42K |
Shares outstanding
Basic shares Diluted shares Change in diluted shares
Source: Financial Modeling PrepVerified against SEC filings
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Title: McDonald's Corp
Sector: Consumer Cyclical
Industry: Restaurants
McDonald’s Corporation is an American fast-food chain founded in 1940 by brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald in San Bernardino, California. The company is synonymous around the world for its signature hamburgers, known as Big Macs. McDonald’s is headquartered in Chicago. The first ever McDonald’s restaurant was a drive-in that offered a wide selection of items. However, in 1948, the founding brothers revamped the business as a hamburger joint that could be franchised. The company’s famous logo, consisting of Golden Arches, was introduced in 1953. Today, McDonald's is the world's largest restaurant chain by revenue, serving as many as 70 million customers a day in over 100 countries. With over 40,000 branches around the world, the company earns significant revenues from the rent, royalties, and fees paid by the franchisees, notwithstanding the profits from its own in-store operations.