McDonald’s Corp (MCD) concluded trading on Thursday at a closing price of $298.39, with 5.37 million shares of worth about $1.6 billion changed hands on the day. Half year performance of the stock remained positive as price took a surge of 2.13% during that period and on July 10, 2025 the price saw a gain of about 1.83%. Currently the company’s common shares owned by public are about 715.00M shares, out of which, 714.44M shares are available for trading.
Stock saw a price change of 1.28% in past 5 days and over the past one month there was a price change of -2.10%. Year-to-date (YTD), MCD shares are showing a performance of 20.39% which increased to 2.93% when we look at its performance for past 12 months. Over the period of past 52 weeks, stock dropped to lowest price of $245.90 but also hit the highest price of $326.32 during that period. The average intraday trading volume for McDonald’s Corp shares is 3.47 million. The stock is currently trading 1.65% above its 20-day simple moving average (SMA20), while that difference is down -2.28% for SMA50 and it goes to -1.06% lower than SMA200.
McDonald’s Corp (NYSE: MCD) currently have 715.00M outstanding shares and institutions hold larger chunk of about 75.28% of that.
The stock has a current market capitalization of $213.36B and its 3Y-monthly beta is at 0.52. PE ratio of stock for trailing 12 months is 26.32, while it has posted earnings per share of $11.34 in the same period. Its PEG reads 3.75 and has Quick Ratio of 1.17. Volatility of a stock is a metric used to know how much the price of that stock is under influence and for MCD, volatility over the week remained 1.12% while standing at 1.54% over the month.
Stock’s fiscal year EPS is expected to rise by 4.71% while it is estimated to increase by 8.11% in next year. EPS is likely to shrink at an annualized rate of 7.02% for next 5-years, compared to annual growth of 7.66% made by the stock over the past 5-years.
Digging deeper we find that several firms have released their research notes about the support levels of the stock. Most recent of them is a note released by Goldman on July 10, 2025 offering a Buy rating for the stock and assigned a target price of $345 to it. On June 10, 2025, Redburn Atlantic Downgrade their recommendations, while on June 09, 2025, Morgan Stanley Downgrade their ratings for the stock with a price target of $324. Stock get a Hold rating from Loop Capital on June 06, 2025.
