The lesson of this story is that you will most likely stumble upon one or two great companies
like MCD in your lifetime.
Before I even started to read I immediatly thought that this looks exactly
like the McD version, which I love.
It's
like the McD All - American game.
It seems
like MCD is catching back up.
It didn't make any sense in a world of new, fast casual dining offering healthy, organic and fresh fare but alas, fast food giants
like MCD, YUM, JACK, WEN and more adapted and changed and are back to being the kings.
Not exact matches
It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory -
like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (
mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.
But the presence of chipotle pulled pork betrays the café's real purpose:
McD's aims to be more
like a certain surging burrito - shilling rival.
Other major employers who have distinct (and worse) policies for hourly workers include AT&T (t), Darden Restaurants, McDonald's (
mcd), Starbucks (sbux), Supervalu, and Yum!Brands (which owns brands
like Taco Bell and Pizza Hut).
But the trend of digital ordering will only accelerate, forcing big players
like McDonald's (
mcd) to think about what mobile ordering should look
like as this trend becomes more pervasive.
That includes major American brands
like McDonald's (
mcd) and Coca Cola (ko).
McDonald's (
MCD) is having a devil of time breaking a three - year funk, but the struggling restaurant chain thinks that tactics
like toasting buns longer and changing how it sears its burgers could very well be the moves that put the iconic burger chain back on the path to growth.
Other chains have also been on this reformulation journey — companies
like McDonald's (
mcd) and Subway have also made similar announcements — though Panera's reformulations have been far more comprehensive.
Subway,
like McDonald's (
mcd), Dunkin Brands (dnkn) and several others, has vowed to switch to cage - free eggs.
The rhetoric in filings always makes risks seem more daunting than they are in practice, but this is an opportunity for
MCD to deliver (no pun intended) on a front that its customers have wanted for years — really since the
likes of GrubHub (NYSE: GRUB) and Seamless went mainstream.
Increased competition from fast casual restaurants
like Chipotle (CMG) and Panera (PNRA) that appealed to health - conscious diners compressed
MCD's margins and sent its sales slumping.
McDonald's (
MCD)- Although shares have popped a little since my last purchase, I'd
like to add more on a pullback as I have just a small position.
While
MCD doesn't have as much of a margin of safety in the share price as I'd normally
like, with a very long - term investing horizon, I feel comfortable paying up a little for a quality stock as I detailed here.
I
like the company a lot long term and think it will continue adapting to new consumer tastes as
MCD did / does and HRL too for that matter.
The play here is to start buying distressed poor American assets and forming farms, ranches or even islands dedicating to housing them and fattening them on low cost / calorie inputs
like McDonald's (NYSE:
MCD) dollar menu and corn syrup IVs.
Many managers currently favor companies
like Pfizer (PFE), Microsoft (MSFT), McDonald's (
MCD), etc..
I
like what you are saying, but am confused about the «
McD» references.
They don't mention
McD's name, but they use clown imagery, and reference things
like a «Meh Muffin» (which might sound to a jury of one's peers
like a slurred version of the word «Mc - Muffin»).
That is why
McD's can label their burger as 100 % beef, when they were more
like 70 % beef and 30 % nasty pink slime.
And if you go there every week
like I do, then you are going to want to give it a little thought rather than let
McD decide your family's diet.
I also have a friend who was a HS and college track star, and she had always refused the same foods that I had, wouldn't go into
McD's,
like me.
Add it all up and you're looking at potentially capturing 10 % - plus yields from world class stocks
like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (
MCD), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Pepsi (PEP) and more.
A stock
like McDonald's (Ticker:
MCD) or Coca - Cola (Ticker: KO) does not need to reinvest ALL of their cash back into the business.
Put simply, a «10 % Trade» is a conservative, income - oriented trade that typically lasts just six to 10 weeks and that, if repeated over the course of a year, can generate at least 10 % yields from companies
like Microsoft (MSFT), Coca - Cola (KO), McDonald's (
MCD), Apple (AAPL), Wal - Mart (WMT), Target (TGT), General Electric (GE), Wells Fargo (WFC) and more.
Blue - chip businesses
like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) and McDonald's (
MCD) are so large and liquid that their share prices don't tend to move much.
First, I probably
like WMT long - term slightly more than
MCD.
Add it all up and you're looking at potentially capturing 10 % - plus yields from world class stocks
like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (
MCD), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Coca - Cola (KO), Pepsi (PEP) and more.
I don't know of one person in my life that eats at
MCD very often, or even
likes eating there — other than myself.
Add it all up and you're looking at potentially capturing 10 % - plus annualized yields from world class stocks
like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (
MCD), Apple (AAPL), IBM (IBM), Microsoft (MSFT), Pepsi (PEP) and more.
The
likes of Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), McDonald's Corporation (
MCD), and Apple Inc. (AAPL) can be found in my personal portfolio.
For the past few months I've been showing readers how to use «10 % Trades» to help double... triple... or even quadruple their annualized yield on relatively safe stocks
like Wal - Mart (WMT), McDonald's (
MCD), Microsoft (MSFT)... and many more
like them.
Personally, I've created a real - money portfolio based entirely on dividend growth stocks
like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), McDonald's (
MCD) and Chevron (CVX).
His wide - ranging analysis, which you should read carefully, looks at historical macro effects as well as analyzing individual stocks
like Johnson and Johnson (JNJ), McDonalds (
MCD), and other important names.
CA... I will buy any REALTOR who provides the correct number (meaning the one a REALTOR as a registrant can give out not the one a non-registrant
like Jason Mercer releases) 5 free coffees at
McD ’s