How is McDonald's (MCD) doing?

McDonald's is a company in the restaurants industry, based in Chicago, IL, worth $167.1B. Here is how its shares and business compare with the rest of the market, and where it shows up on our dashboards.

Updated Oct 9, 2026

P3 score

Weak

McDonald's shares are down 20% over the past year, 31 points behind the S&P 500. Its type is Broken Year. Among large US stocks and funds it ranks in the 16th percentile on market beat, the 24th on staying power and the 47th on business growth. It appears on 8 of our dashboards.

$235.23−20% in a yearWorth $167.1B

Compare with QSR · YUM · WEN · WING · CMG · DPZ · SBUX

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Past year

The past year

Price against the S&P 500, each set to $100 a year ago. Score is its weekly rank against the market. Select a tile for that score month by month.

MCD against the S&P 500, past year

$100 a year ago. McDonald's −20%, the S&P 500 +16%.

MCDS&P 500

What kind of stock is it?

Its type on Stox Atlas, from its four scores: beating or lagging the market, a steady or erratic rank, a growing or slowing business, and whether buyers or sellers lead.

Broken Year

LaggingErraticSlowingSold

Lagging, erratic, a soft business, and sellers in charge.

NovDecJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepNow

Broken Year this month; Wallflower before that.

Also Broken Year (94 in all): CTAS · MSI · UNH · LHX · RSG · COR

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How is it doing against its group?

Its group is Aerospace-defense, 41 large US stocks and funds whose prices tend to move together. Defense primes and steady-demand contractors.

MCD, past year−20%29 of 41 in the group

Rest of the group0%equal-weighted

S&P 500+16%past year

McDonald's is −20% over the past year, against flat for the rest of the group and +16% for the S&P 500. It ranks 29th of 41 in Aerospace-defense.

MCDRest of the group

Best in the groupCNC Centene+70%COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated+64%CAH Cardinal Health+51%

Worst in the groupPSN Parsons−50%ROL Rollins−45%AXON Axon Enterprise−42%

Its closest rivalsQSR Restaurant Brands International+5%YUM Yum! Brands−1%WEN Wendy's−31%WING Wingstop−51%

Aerospace-defense on Stox ›

How much does it move?

Its typical daily move, against its own past year, the market and other large stocks. Swings describe risk, not direction.

About usual McDonald's typically moves 1.9% in a day, about usual for it, and it swings less than 97% of large US stocks.

Typical day1.9%about $4.39 a share

Its usual1.8%about usual, 1.1× its year’s average

Against the S&P 5001.6×the index’s typical day is 1.1%

Unusual day±3.7%twice its typical day

Deepest fall, past year−32%now 31% below its high

In the S&P’s down weeks43%of the index’s fall, three years; beta 0.3

Typical daily move (ATR)Its year’s average 1.76%

MCD on our dashboards

Every question where McDonald's appears, in the order of the home page, with its reading and place in that table. Select a question to open it with MCD highlighted. Select a column to sort.

Question	Reading	Place	Details
How much are stocks swinging? Market health	87Stormy	34 of 60	Daily move now 1.5% · Usual 1.2% · 1M change −7%
Which stocks are setting new lows? Market health	18Bottom	26 of 33	1Y −20% · 3M −14% · Days at a low 12
Which stocks keep losing? Leading stocks	9031 of 52 wks	53 of 60	vs S&P, 1Y −36 pts
Which companies earn the most on their capital? Business quality	89Excellent	46 of 60	Return on capital 25% · Gross margin 57% · Cash margin 26%
Which stocks are cheap against their own history? Value	99Cheap	15 of 60	P/E now 19.1x · 10-yr median 25.9x · Earnings, 1Y +5%
Which companies raise their dividend every year? Dividends and buybacks	98Decades	10 of 60	Years raised 49+ years · Growth, 5Y +7% a yr · Yield 3.1%
What is Congress trading? Who’s buying and selling	5Sold	7 of 60	Buying 1 · Selling 4 · Bought $8K
Where is trading volume surging? Who’s buying and selling	89Normal	54 of 60	vs normal 1.2x · Traded a day $1.5B · 5D +1.4%

Go deeper on Stox

MCD’s full profile: financial statements, earnings and analysts’ estimates, valuation against its sector, recent news with a summary, and its scores in detail.

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How to read this page

How it’s measured. Scores from Stox rank the stock against about 1,200 S&P 500, Nasdaq-100 and Russell 1000 stocks and popular funds, where 100 is best; market beat and staying power use prices, business growth uses revenue, margins and cash flow. Readings on other dashboards come from this site’s pages.

Sources. Daily prices and company financial statements from Financial Modeling Prep; scores and co-movement groups from Stox.

Scores are percentiles: 80 means the stock ranks above 80% of the others on that measure. They describe the recent past and are not advice or a forecast.

Its type follows Stox Atlas: each of the four scores is split at 50. “Steady” means its rank has held, high or low, so it says nothing on its own about direction.

Its group is the cluster of large US stocks whose prices have moved together over five years, with the market’s own moves taken out. The typical daily move is the average true range over 14 days, a measure of how far the price travels in a day including overnight gaps.

For financial statements, earnings and news, see MCD’s full profile on Stox.

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