In recent trading session, McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) saw 0.99 million shares changing hands at last check today with its beta currently measuring 0.54. Company’s recent per share price level of $283.88 trading at -$1.67 or -0.59% at last check today assigns it a market valuation of $202.98B. That most recent trading price of MCD’s stock is at a discount of -14.95% from its 52-week high price of $326.32 and is indicating a premium of 14.21% from its 52-week low price of $243.53. Taking a look at company’s average trading volume for last 10-days demonstrates a volume of 4.07 million shares which gives us an average trading volume of 3.65 million if we extend that period to 3-months.
For McDonald’s Corp (MCD), analysts’ consensus is at an average recommendation of Buy while assigning it a mean rating of 2.24. Splitting up the data highlights that, out of 31 analysts covering the stock, 0 rated the stock as a Sell while 0 recommended an Overweight rating for the stock. 5 suggested the stock as a Hold whereas 26 see the stock as a Buy. 0 analyst(s) advised it as an Underweight.
McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) trade information
Upright in the red during last session for losing -0.59%, in the last five days MCD remained trading in the red while hitting it’s week-highest on Tuesday, 06/24/25 when the stock touched $283.88 price level, adding 2.81% to its value on the day. McDonald’s Corp’s shares saw a change of 9.02% in year-to-date performance and have moved -1.99% in past 5-day. McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) showed a performance of -9.87% in past 30-days. Number of shares sold short was 7.79 million shares which calculate 2.73 days to cover the short interests.
Wall Street analysts have assigned a consensus price target of 345 to the stock, which implies a rise of 17.72% to its recent value today. Analysts have been projecting 340 as a low price target for the stock while placing it at a high target of 350. It follows that stock’s current price would drop -19.77% in reaching the projected high whereas dropping to the targeted low would mean a loss of -19.77% for stock’s current value.
Weighing up company’s earnings over the past 5-year and in the next 5-year periods, we find the company posting an annual earnings growth rate of 7.66% during past 5 years. In 2025, company’s earnings growth rate is likely to be around 4.74% while estimates for its earnings growth in next 5 years are of 7.09%.
MCD Dividends
McDonald’s Corp is more likely to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-May-01 and investors are confident in the company announcing better current-quarter dividends despite the fact that it has been facing issues arising out of mounting debt. With an annual yield of 2.46%, the share has a forward dividend of 6.98 which implies that company’s dividend yield remained growing in trailing twelve months while having a 5 year average dividend yield of 2.22%.
McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD)’s Major holders
Insiders are in possession of 0.22% of company’s total shares while institution are holding 75.86 percent of that, with stock having share float percentage of 76.03%. Investors also watch the number of corporate investors in a company very closely, which is 75.86% institutions for McDonald’s Corp that are currently holding shares of the company. VANGUARD GROUP INC is the top institutional holder at MCD for having 69.51 million shares of worth $17.71 billion. And as of 2024-06-30, it was holding 9.6697 of the company’s outstanding shares.
The second largest institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., which was holding about 50.18 million shares on 2024-06-30. The number of shares represents firm’s hold over 6.9809 of outstanding shares, having a total worth of $12.79 billion.
On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund are the top two Mutual Funds which own company’s shares. As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager was holding 22.58 shares of worth $6.43 billion or 3.16% of the total outstanding shares. The later fund manager was in possession of 19.91 shares on Mar 31, 2025 , making its stake of worth around $5.67 billion in the company or a holder of 2.78% of company’s stock.
