McDonald's Corporation (MCD)

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McDonald's Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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McDonald's Corporation's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $25 billion in fiscal 2016 to $27 billion in fiscal 2025, up 1% a year; it rose in 5 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 22% from fiscal 2016 to fiscal 2020; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, McDonald's Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 76% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 22 sales (19 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-12 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, McDonald's Corporation's shareholders' equity was below zero, so the profit on it is not read. Leverage: it owed about 103 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 0.8% over the year (the filed statements).

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McDonald's Corporation's standing among 43 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $27 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 1% by size; a net margin of 31.9% ranks in the top 1%; revenue growth of 5.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 45% (its annual reports).

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McDonald's Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Kempczinski, Christopher J (Chairman and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2019-11-06, 7 years (top 26% of its family); most of the 24 officers and directors filing now have filed since the record of its people begins (2022-09-02), a floor of 4.2 years the record cannot see past, so that part is not read; 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 24 people in charge now (top 32%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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McDonald's Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $774 million against debt of $40 billion leaves -65.9% of its assets as net cash, bottom 9% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 26.7% of revenue (top 1%) (its annual report).

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McDonald's Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew 5.1% a year over the last three filed years against 1% over all 10, speeding up (top 13% of its family); the newest year grew 3.7% (bottom 42%); capital spending grew 21% a year (top 18%) (its annual reports). McDonald's Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: International Operated Markets at $14 billion (51%), US Market at $11 billion (40%), International Developmental Licensed Markets and Corporate at $2.4 billion (9%); 2 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).

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McDonald's Corporation's newest year against its own record: revenue of $27 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 1.9% below the $27 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 42% of its family); net income of $8.6 billion against a prior three-year average of $7.6 billion (top 35%); a net margin of 31.9% against 30.5% before (top 19%) (its annual reports).