McDonald`s Corp
NYSE: MCD
$291.10
-$1.53 (-0.5%)
Closing Price on November 18, 2024
MCD Articles
Just a couple of weeks ago McDonald’s (MCD) was the toast of the town. Same store sales were great and its breakfast menu was selling like hotcakes. It said it would put coffee bars in 14,000 US...
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Wall St. was taken by surprise when AT&T’s (T) chief said that the company was seeing soft home phone and internet business. So far, wireless spending seems OK. Since big company CEOs are...
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McDonald’s (MCD) will open coffee bars at 14,000 of its US outlets. According to The Wall Street Journal the "locations will install coffee bars with "baristas" serving cappuccinos, lattes, mochas...
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According to Reuters, Yahoo! (YHOO) is pushing the mobile handset as the next major target for its products. Reuters reports that analysts are trimming forecasts for the first and second quarter of...
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We are updating our list of tier-one Defensive Stocks since so many of these stocks have run up and since lists need continual updating. Our originally updated list of tier one defensive stocks was...
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Over in the world of baseball where steroid-built great apes hit 60 home runs a season, there is still a place for what is known as "small ball". That approach to the game is based on hitting...
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According to Reuters, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK) has bought control of Marmon Industries for $4.5 billion. Reuters writes that US retail sales were up a disappointing 3.6% for the holidays. Reuters...
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Like so many other US companies, Burger King (BKC) is looking to China for big growth. The US hamburger chain has about a third of its sales outside the US. It thinks it can move that to 50%. Chief...
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Any investor who held Starbucks (SBUX) shares last November and still has them today has lost about half of his or her money. SBUX hit $40.01 on November 16, 2006. After a downgrade from RBC today,...
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Most manufacturing has gone out of the US. TVs, cars, steel. What is left? Boeing (BA) and a service and technology economy. Companies like McDonald’s (MCD) can’t export cooking hamburgers and...
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Normally, when McDonald’s (MCD) comes out with strong same-store sales and attributes some of its success to revenue from premium coffee, shares in Starbucks (SBUX) sell off. MCD did just that,...
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McDonald’s (MCD) same-store worldwide sales rose 8.2% in November. Systemwide sales, including all stores, increased 16.3%. In the U.S., comparable sales increased 4.4% for the month as consumers...
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It is not bad enough that Consumer Reports said the McDonald’s (MCD) coffee tastes better than Starbucks (SBUX). Now, the fast good chain says it will introduce morning drinks that are so good that...
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We wanted to run some up and down scenarios for Starbucks now that the noise from the research calls have gotten out of the way and now that the post-earnings dust has settled. All calculations are...
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Despite reports that Wendy’s International Inc. (NYSE:WEN) would-be acquisition process is being hampered by liquidity concerns in the credit markets, its stock is actually up about 2% today. ...
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