267.22 +0.02 +0.01%
Official Close 3/17/2023 NYSE

Is McDonald's stock a Buy, Sell or Hold? McDonald's stock has received a consensus rating of buy. The average rating score is Baa1 and is based on 64 buy ratings, 13 hold ratings, and 0 sell ratings.
What was the 52-week low for McDonald's stock? The low in the last 52 weeks of McDonald's stock was 228.34. According to the current price, McDonald's is 117.02% away from the 52-week low.
What was the 52-week high for McDonald's stock? The high in the last 52 weeks of McDonald's stock was 281.67. According to the current price, McDonald's is 94.86% away from the 52-week high.
What are analysts forecasts for McDonald's stock? The 77 analysts offering price forecasts for McDonald's have a median target of 274.86, with a high estimate of 306.00 and a low estimate of 225.00. The median estimate represents a 97.21 difference from the last price of 267.20.

McDonald's Stock Snapshot

267.22
Bid
100.00
Bid Size
267.27
Ask
1,200.00
Ask Size
3/17/2023
Date
4:15 PM
Time
2.44 M
Volume
270.57
Prev. Close
269.57
Open
194.92 B
Market Cap
731.50 M
Number of Shares
265.74
Day Low
269.90
Day High
267.20
228.34
52 Week Low
281.67
52 Week High
267.20
6.10
Dividend
2.30
Dividend Yield
26.43
P/E Ratio
99.85
Free Float in %
10.60
EPS 2023
-7.34
Book Value per Share
13.42
Cash Flow per Share

McDonald's Historical Prices

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McDonald's Analyst Data

Total Analysts: 77
Buy Ratings: 64 Neutral Ratings: 13 Sell Ratings: 0
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Price *Price Target
Lowest: 225.00 Median: 274.86 Highest: 306.00
*The average price target includes all analyst analysis, not just the most recent analysis presented in the chart.

McDonald's Analyst Opinions

02/03/23 RBC Capital Markets
Maintained Buy $283
02/01/23 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $300
02/01/23 Citigroup Corp.
Maintained Hold $277
01/31/23 Stephens Inc.
Maintained Buy $280
01/30/23 Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc.
Maintained Buy $270
01/25/23 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $298
01/24/23 Wells Fargo & Co
Maintained Hold $280
01/18/23 J.P. Morgan
Maintained Buy $262
01/18/23 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $305
12/01/22 Citigroup Corp.
Maintained Hold $270
10/28/22 Barclays Capital
Maintained Buy $295
10/28/22 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $285
10/28/22 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $292
10/28/22 Cowen and Company, LLC
Maintained Buy $293
10/28/22 Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.
Maintained Buy $300
10/19/22 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $272
10/11/22 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $274
10/11/22 Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc.
Maintained Buy $265
09/27/22 Citigroup Corp.
Maintained Hold $246
09/23/22 Stephens Inc.
Maintained Buy $280
09/08/22 Bernstein
Maintained Hold $267
09/07/22 Piper Sandler
Maintained Buy $270
08/16/22 BMO Capital Markets
Maintained Buy $300
07/27/22 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $287
07/27/22 Barclays Capital
Maintained Buy $285
07/27/22 Citigroup Corp.
Maintained Hold $275
07/27/22 BMO Capital Markets
Maintained Buy $285
07/27/22 Deutsche Bank
Downgraded to Hold $259
07/27/22 Cowen and Company, LLC
Maintained Buy $290
07/18/22 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $285
07/07/22 Deutsche Bank
Maintained Buy $263
06/29/22 Atlantic Equities
Upgraded to Buy $278
06/09/22 Barclays Capital
Maintained Buy $289
05/03/22 J.P. Morgan
Maintained Buy $275
04/29/22 MKM Partners
Maintained Buy $295
04/29/22 RBC Capital Markets
Maintained Buy $295
04/29/22 Citigroup Corp.
Maintained Hold $273
04/19/22 BTIG Research
Maintained Buy $280
03/30/22 UBS
Maintained Buy $290
03/28/22 Piper Sandler
Maintained Buy $250
03/17/22 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $287
03/10/22 Northcoast
Downgraded to Hold $297
01/14/22 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $294
01/03/22 Piper Sandler
Upgraded to Buy $282
12/30/21 Argus Research Company
Maintained Buy $300
10/29/21 Stephens Inc.
Maintained Hold $270
10/28/21 Morgan Stanley
Maintained Buy $275
10/28/21 Barclays Capital
Maintained Buy $298
10/28/21 Credit Suisse
Maintained Buy $281
10/28/21 RBC Capital Markets
Maintained Buy $280

McDonald's Estimates* in USD

  2023 2024 2025 2026
Revenue 24,327 25,910 27,528 29,497
Dividend 6.10 6.40 6.89 7.13
Dividend Yield (in %) 2.30 % 2.41 % 2.59 % 2.68 %
EPS 10.60 11.71 12.79 14.02
P/E Ratio 25.39 22.97 21.04 19.19
EBIT 11,025 11,910 12,805 13,613
EBITDA 12,979 13,953 14,931 16,267
Net Profit 7,694 8,363 9,002 9,711
Net Profit Adjusted 7,671 8,357 8,956 9,711
Pre-Tax Profit 9,744 10,614 11,458 12,332
Net Profit (Adjusted) 9,786 10,724 11,503 -
EPS (Non-GAAP) ex. SOE 10.60 11.71 12.79 14.02
EPS (GAAP) 10.57 11.77 12.85 14.02
Gross Income 13,089 13,899 15,775 -
Cash Flow from Investing -2,412 -2,302 -2,183 -2,022
Cash Flow from Operations 9,533 10,188 11,144 11,319
Cash Flow from Financing -8,005 -7,583 -8,396 -8,957
Cash Flow per Share 13.42 14.78 16.11 -
Free Cash Flow 6,825 7,379 8,964 -
Free Cash Flow per Share 6.94 6.74 - -
Book Value per Share -7.34 -6.33 49.27 -
Net Debt 34,040 33,586 35,189 -
Research & Development Exp. - - - -
Capital Expenditure 2,289 2,273 2,210 2,022
Selling, General & Admin. Exp. 2,872 2,971 3,226 3,326
Shareholder’s Equity -5,604 -4,871 -6,786 -5,081
Total Assets 49,526 50,302 50,404 51,104
  Previous Quarter
ending 12/31/22
Current Quarter
ending 03/31/23
Next Quarter
ending 06/30/23
Current Year
ending 12/31/23
Next Year
ending 12/31/24
Earnings Estimates
No. of Analysts 31 32 32 34 32
Average Estimate 2.455 USD 2.305 USD 2.654 USD 10.595 USD 11.713 USD
Year Ago 2.230 USD 2.280 USD 2.550 USD 10.100 USD 10.595 USD
Publish Date 1/31/2023 5/3/2023 7/27/2023 - -
Revenue Estimates
No. of Analysts 25 25 24 29 27
Average Estimate 5,720 USD 5,544 USD 6,089 USD 24,327 USD 25,910 USD
Year Ago 6,009 USD 5,666 USD 5,718 USD 23,183 USD 24,327 USD
Publish Date 1/31/2023 5/3/2023 7/27/2023 - -
* Average Estimates in Million (e.g. Revenue) or per share (e.g. Dividend). Source: FactSet

McDonald's Insider Activity

Name Date shares traded shares held Price type (sell/buy) option
Kempczinski Christopher J 02/22/2023 3,850.00 34,637.00 267.69 Sell No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 614.00 3,929.00 269.99 Sell No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 452.00 2,450.00 269.99 Sell No
Kempczinski Christopher J 02/17/2023 14,480.00 38,487.00 269.99 Sell No
Hoovel Catherine A. 02/17/2023 222.00 1,731.00 269.99 Sell No
Erlinger Joseph M. 02/17/2023 3,562.00 12,664.00 269.99 Sell No
Borden Ian Frederick 02/17/2023 3,538.00 10,387.42 269.99 Sell No
Steijaert Manuel JM 02/17/2023 756.00 3,402.00 269.99 Sell No
Steijaert Manuel JM 02/17/2023 1,769.00 2,631.00 269.99 Sell No
OZAN KEVIN M 02/17/2023 5,143.00 29,688.00 269.99 Sell No
Sempels Jo 02/17/2023 841.00 730.00 269.99 Sell No
Gross Marion K. 02/17/2023 575.00 1,605.15 269.99 Sell No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 144.00 4,543.00 n/a Buy No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 1,949.00 4,399.00 n/a Buy No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 102.00 2,902.00 n/a Buy No
Flatley Edith Morgan 02/17/2023 1,388.00 2,800.00 n/a Buy No
Kempczinski Christopher J 02/17/2023 2,330.00 52,967.00 n/a Buy No
Kempczinski Christopher J 02/17/2023 31,610.00 50,637.00 n/a Buy No
Hoovel Catherine A. 02/17/2023 53.00 1,953.00 n/a Buy No
Hoovel Catherine A. 02/17/2023 716.00 1,900.00 n/a Buy No
Erlinger Joseph M. 02/17/2023 552.00 16,226.00 n/a Buy No
Erlinger Joseph M. 02/17/2023 7,487.00 15,674.00 n/a Buy No
Borden Ian Frederick 02/17/2023 466.00 13,925.42 n/a Buy No
Borden Ian Frederick 02/17/2023 6,324.00 13,459.42 n/a Buy No
Steijaert Manuel JM 02/17/2023 105.00 4,158.00 n/a Buy No

McDonald's Dividend Calendar

Date Name Dividend *yield Currency
2022 McDonald's Corp. 5.66 2.15 USD
2021 McDonald's Corp. 5.25 1.96 USD
2020 McDonald's Corp. 5.04 2.35 USD
2019 McDonald's Corp. 4.73 2.39 USD
2018 McDonald's Corp. 4.19 2.36 USD
2017 McDonald's Corp. 3.83 2.23 USD
2016 McDonald's Corp. 3.61 2.97 USD
2015 McDonald's Corp. 3.44 2.91 USD
2014 McDonald's Corp. 3.28 3.50 USD
2013 McDonald's Corp. 3.12 3.22 USD
2012 McDonald's Corp. 2.87 3.25 USD
2011 McDonald's Corp. 2.53 2.52 USD
2010 McDonald's Corp. 2.26 2.94 USD
2009 McDonald's Corp. 2.05 3.28 USD
2008 McDonald's Corp. 1.63 2.62 USD
2007 McDonald's Corp. 1.50 2.55 USD
2006 McDonald's Corp. 1.00 2.26 USD
2005 McDonald's Corp. 0.67 1.99 USD
2004 McDonald's Corp. 0.55 1.72 USD
2003 McDonald's Corp. 0.40 1.61 USD
2002 McDonald's Corp. 0.24 1.49 USD
2001 McDonald's Corp. 0.23 0.87 USD
2000 McDonald's Corp. 0.22 0.65 USD
1999 McDonald's Corp. 0.20 0.50 USD
*Yield of the Respective Date

McDonald's Corp. Calendar

Event Estimate Info Date
Earnings Report 2.305 USD Q1 2023 Earnings Release 05/03/2023
Earnings Report 2.654 USD Q2 2023 Earnings Release 07/27/2023
Earnings Report - Q3 2023 Earnings Release 10/24/2023
Earnings Report - Q4 2023 Earnings Release 01/30/2024

McDonald's Corp. Past Events

Event Actual EPS Info Date
Earnings Report 2.590 USD Q4 2022 Earnings Release 01/31/2023
Shareholders' Meeting - - 05/26/2022

McDonald's Profile

McDonald's Corp. engages in the operation and franchising of restaurants. It operates through the following segments: U. S. , International Operated Markets, and International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate. The U. S. segment focuses its operations on the United States.

McDonald`s Stock Price History By Markets Insider

The World’s largest burger chain has come a long way since its humble 1940 beginnings along Route 66 in San Bernardino, California.

Ray Kroc, who built McDonald’s into the fast food giant it is today, wasn’t actually the founder. He did, however open the first McDonald’s franchise location in his home of Des Plaines, Illinois. (read more)

Kroc would eventually buy the company from the original founders, brothers Maurice and Richard McDonald, for $2.7 million in 1961. That’s the equivalent of $22 million in today’s dollars—still a tiny fraction of McDonald’s $100 billion+ market cap today.

In 1963, there were 500 McDonald’s restaurants operating nationwide and the chain sold its one billionth hamburger. It still wasn’t a public company.

McDonald’s Corporation went public on April 21 1965, it’s 10th anniversary. Stock was sold at $22.50 per share. After the first day of trading, Mcdonald’s stock price had soared to $30 per share.

There have been 12 stock splits for McDonald’s throughout the decades, meaning that 100 shares purchased at the IPO price would have been 74,360 shares worth over $5.7 million.

Before the end of the 1960’s McDonald’s had expanded to all 50 U.S. states through agile product shifts, like the Filet-O-Fish, which was developed for Catholic after Ray Kroc noticed a significant drop off in burger sales during Friday’s of lent (when practicing Catholics traditionally do not eat meat).

The chain went international in 1967, opening its first restaurants abroad in Canada in Puerto Rico. Today there are McDonald’s restaurants in over 115 countries around the world, according to the company’s website.

In 1968, the Big Mac was introduced. Fast food would never be the same. But it was only the start for McDonald’s fast food innovation.

McDonald’s pioneered the breakfast fast food segment when the Egg Muffin made its debut in 1972. It was a hit in test markets like New York City, leading to a full rollout of McDonald’s breakfast nationwide three years later.

McDonald’s stock fared well throughout the next 20 years, rising almost constantly up until the stock market crash and subsequent recession of the early 1990’s.

After a peak of $38.37 in November of 1999, McDonald’s stock price would not rise above that number for eight years until 2007. After weathering the financial crisis of 2008 relatively well, McDonald’s stock would rise again until the early 2010’s, when trouble was in store.

Breakfast to the rescue. Again.

After years of an up-and-down stock price, McDonald’s needed anything to show investors growth once again. So in 2015, McDonald’s rolled out all-day breakfast to smashing success.

McDonald’s stock price went once again on a roll (or a McMuffin?) thanks to the menu shift, and hit new all time highs. In 2017 McDonald’s stock price was at a record price of over $150.

Moody’s Daily Credit Risk Score

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McDonald's Shareholder

Owner in %
Freefloat 99.85
Vanguard Group, Inc. (Subfiler) 8.89
State Street Corp. 4.65
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund 3.08
BlackRock Fund Advisors 2.69
Vanguard 500 Index Fund 2.33
BlackRock Institutional Trust Co. NA 2.22
Wellington Management Co. LLP 2.20
Geode Capital Management LLC 1.87
JPMorgan Investment Management, Inc. 1.27
Norges Bank (13F) 1.21
Government Pension Fund - Global (The) 1.19
T. Rowe Price Associates, Inc. (Investment Management) 1.18
Fidelity 500 Index Fund 1.10
SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust 1.08
Shareholder percentage totals can add to more than 100% because some holders are included in the free float.

McDonald's Management

Name Job
Andrew J. McKenna Chairman-Emeritus
Catherine A. Hoovel Chief Accounting Officer & Vice President
Manuel Steijaert Chief Customer Officer & Executive VP
Reginald Miller Chief Diversity-Equity & Inclusion Officer
Ian Borden Chief Financial Officer & Executive Vice President
Tariq H. Hassan Chief Marketing & Customer Experience Officer
Mason Smoot Chief Restaurant Officer & Senior Vice President
Marion Gross Chief Supply Chain Officer & Executive VP
Joseph Diozzi Development Director
Bruce Crown Development Officer-Central Division
Anthony G. Capuano Director
Mark Hertel Director
Amy E. Weaver Director
Jennifer Taubert Director
Vivian Valdivia Director-Development
Sylvia Aguilera Director-Global Government & Public Affairs
David Kearns Director-Portfolio Management
Gina B. Wolfe Director-President Council
Steve Creer Director-Worldwide Development
Val Mathelier General Counsel
Mahrukh Hussain General Counsel-USA
Brian S. Rice Global Chief Information Officer & Executive VP
Heidi B. Capozzi Global Chief People Officer & Executive VP
Enrique Hernandez Independent Chairman
Miles D. White Independent Director
John Washington Rogers Independent Director
Lloyd H. Dean Independent Director
Robert A. Eckert Independent Director
Catherine M. Engelbert Independent Director
Mary Margaret Hastings Georgiadis Independent Director
Kareem Daniel Independent Director
John J. Mulligan Independent Director
Richard H. Lenny Independent Director
Paul Steven Walsh Independent Non-Executive Director
John D'Anna Lead Development Director-Atlantic Group
Gina Hardy Lead Real Estate Portfolio Manager-Pacific
Brooke Sugaski-Hartman Manager-Field Real Estate
Melissa Peace Manager-National Real Estate
Troy Faulkner Manager-National Real Estate
Richard Davis Manager-National Real Estate
Lori Nunez Manager-National Real Estate
Gilda Amini Manager-Portfolio Asset
Melissa Schmidt Manager-Real Estate
Matt Cullen Manager-Real Estate
Brad Dean Manager-Real Estate Asset
Clark Lambdin National Area Real Estate Manager
Nancy Dittmeier National Excess Property Supervisor
Meredith LeNoir National Real Estate Lead
Darla Bowen National Real Estate Manager
Gary Blau National Real Estate Manager
Zachary Pagel National Real Estate Manager
Ray Clopton National Real Estate Manager
Robert O'Connell National Real Estate Manager
Lisa Walker National Real Estate Manager
Sandra W. Martel Portfolio Manager-Stamford Field Office
Jami Hays Portfolio Property Manager
Christopher J. Kempczinski President, Chief Executive Officer & Director
Joseph Matthew Erlinger President-McDonalds USA
Mary Cleveland Real Estate Asset Manager
Greg Brown Real Estate Asset Manager
Maurice King Real Estate Manager-Chicago Area
Mary Dolby Real Estate Manager-Eastern Great Lakes
Katrina Rainey Real Estate Portfolio Manager
Desiree Ralls-Morrison Secretary, Executive VP & General Counsel
Sheida Ahmadzadeh Senior Counsel
Bryan Kent Maguire Senior Counsel
Michael Meyer Senior Counsel-Asset Management
Brian Sheedy Senior Counsel-Restaurant Development
John Wendel Senior Director-Development
Jenny McColloch Senior Director-Global CSR
Kevin M. Ozan Senior Executive VP-Strategic Initiatives
Connie Roncone Senior Paralegal
Colin Mitchell Senior Vice President-Global Marketing
Ashley Robins-Johnson Training Supervisor
Melvin Mance US Development Director
Jeffrey J. Pochowicz Vice President & Assistant Secretary
Denise A. Horne Vice President & Associate General Counsel
Mike Cieplak Vice President-Investor Relations