McDonald`s Corp

NYSE: MCD
$303.65
+$3.18 (+1.1%)
Closing Price on September 26, 2024

MCD Articles

There are several ways in which companies can return money to shareholders, but the two most common methods of returning cash to shareholders are dividends and stock buybacks.  Dividends are rarely...
One theory of economics says that any market can return to a point where it has been in the past. The Great Recession was, by some measures as bad as the Great Depression. Unemployment was 3.6% in...
Wages worldwide have stagnated and consumer spending has been pressured by rising commodities prices. People may not be able to afford to buy cars and houses. It turns out, however, that they can...
The world of casual dining and dining is one which has survived bad times and thrived in good times.  It turns out that some of the casual dining segment, particularly the fast food segment, offers...
From California, to the New York Island; from the redwood forest, to the Gulf Stream waters, this land is filled with fatties, lard butts and people large enough to have their own gravitational...
Wendy’s/Arby’s Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN) is soon to just be Wendy’s again, sort of.  The company has been exploring alternatives to try to unlock the value of the two unsuccessfully merged...
As is the case with crude oil, people just can’t seem to get enough coffee. Global consumption of coffee rose 2.4% in 2010, to 134 million bags (each bag weighs about 132 pounds). Demand continues...
These are some of the top analyst upgrades, downgrades, and initiations seen from Wall Street research calls this Thursday morning. American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) Started as Buy at...
Twitter  has, by most estimates, 175 million members, which makes it one of the largest social networks in the world. All major media companies are on Twitter and some have more than one million...
Yum! Brands (NYSE: YUM) buried some of its essential P&L data and information about its US operations in its first quarter earnings release. Most of the highlights of the report are about China....
Attention America’s obese children:  Your parents made you fat.  Ronald McDonald is probably not to blame. That’s not the message that America’s food police — nutritional do-gooders — who...
Now that the 10-Year Treasury Note has been back to close to the 3.00% yields again, we wanted to see which Dow Jones Industrial Average components had a higher dividend yield than the 10-Year...
With all the hubbub surrounding the IPO of professional social networking site LinkedIn, along with rumored deals involving Facebook and Twitter, it’s worth remembering that there are some...
Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) earnings were below expectations, but those of Dell (NYSE: DELL) were above. (Reuters) The FCC asked Google (NASDAQ: GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ: AAP) to attend a meeting on...
IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn was charged with sexual assault in NYC (Reuters) Glencore raised the mid-point of the price range of its IPO (Reuters) Research In Motion (NASDAQ: RIMM) recalled 1,000...