McDonald’s (MCD) closed at $198.15 in the latest trading session, marking a -0.55% move from the prior day. This change was narrower than the S&P 500’s 1.32% loss on the day. Meanwhile, the Dow lost 1.41%, and the Nasdaq, a tech-heavy index, lost 1.51%.
Coming into today, shares of the world’s biggest hamburger chain had gained 2.38% in the past month. In that same time, the Retail-Wholesale sector lost 7.4%, while the S&P 500 lost 5.09%.
Wall Street will be looking for positivity from MCD as it approaches its next earnings report date. The company is expected to report EPS of $2.05, up 3.02% from the prior-year quarter. Meanwhile, the Zacks Consensus Estimate for revenue is projecting net sales of $5.30 billion, down 1.02% from the year-ago period.
MCD’s full-year Zacks Consensus Estimates are calling for earnings of $8.04 per share and revenue of $21 billion. These results would represent year-over-year changes of +1.77% and -0.14%, respectively.
Any recent changes to analyst estimates for MCD should also be noted by investors. These revisions help to show the ever-changing nature of near-term business trends. As a result, we can interpret positive estimate revisions as a good sign for the company’s business outlook.
Our research shows that these estimate changes are directly correlated with near-term stock prices. We developed the Zacks Rank to capitalize on this phenomenon. Our system takes these estimate changes into account and delivers a clear, actionable rating model.
Ranging from #1 (Strong Buy) to #5 (Strong Sell), the Zacks Rank system has a proven, outside-audited track record of outperformance, with #1 stocks returning an average of +25% annually since 1988. Over the past month, the Zacks Consensus EPS estimate has moved 0.11% higher. MCD is currently a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold).
Looking at its valuation, MCD is holding a Forward P/E ratio of 24.77. For comparison, its industry has an average Forward P/E of 22.03, which means MCD is trading at a premium to the group.
Meanwhile, MCD’s PEG ratio is currently 2.79. The PEG ratio is similar to the widely-used P/E ratio, but this metric also takes the company’s expected earnings growth rate into account. The Retail – Restaurants was holding an average PEG ratio of 2.04 at yesterday’s closing price.
The Retail – Restaurants industry is part of the Retail-Wholesale sector. This group has a Zacks Industry Rank of 186, putting it in the bottom 28% of all 250+ industries.
The Zacks Industry Rank gauges the strength of our individual industry groups by measuring the average Zacks Rank of the individual stocks within the groups. Our research shows that the top 50% rated industries outperform the bottom half by a factor of 2 to 1.
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