MCD McDonald'sdata gap · 91% coverage
Consumer Discretionary · Restaurants · close $242.97 (2026-10-16) · latest quarter in EDGAR: 2026-06-30
McDonald's (MCD) has a ThetaGrade House Rating of 51/100 (grade C), ranking #47 of 128 in Consumer Discretionary. Its strongest pillars are profitability (100) and cash flow (71); its weakest is valuation (26). Data gap: 1 factor without usable data, so 91% of the method weight is covered. TTM revenue growth is 6.3% and operating margin 46.2%.
Data as of .
Data gap
No usable data for: 4Q gross-margin change. Data gap: no usable data for this factor, so it is left out and its weight is shared among the factors that do have data (no value is imputed). 91% of the full method weight is backed by data.
Analyst sentiment
weight 7.5% · 50| Consensus score (1–5) (3.8%) | derived | 50 |
| 90-day net rating shift (3.8%) | derived | 68 |
Growth
weight 30.83% · 39| Revenue growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 6.3% | 48 |
| EPS growth YoY (TTM) (12.3%) | 5.5% | 43 |
| Revenue acceleration (6.2%) | -5.7% | 14 |
Profitability
weight 18.5% · 100| Operating margin (18.5%) | 46.2% | 100 |
| 4Q gross-margin change (0.0%)data gap | — | — |
Balance sheet
weight 18.5% · 29| Net debt / EBITDA (9.9%) | 3.00× | 15 |
| Current ratio (4.9%) | 1.08 | 38 |
| Interest coverage (3.7%) | 8.09× | 52 |
Cash flow
weight 12.33% · 71| FCF margin (6.2%) | 26.7% | 98 |
| FCF yield (6.2%) | 4.2% | 43 |
Valuation
weight 12.33% · 26| P/E (inverted) (6.2%) | 19.74× | 50 |
| EV/Sales (inverted) (6.2%) | 7.64× | 1 |
Technicals (EOD)
| RSI(14) | 52.0 |
| EMA 9 / 21 | 238.29 / 239.96 |
| 200-day SMA | 285.95 |
| Volume vs 20d avg | 1.08× |
| 20-day return | -2.2% |
Exit-rule monitor
- EXITRating break: House Rating below 60
- WATCHTrend: close below 200-day average
Data source per metric (SEC XBRL tag or derivation): Revenue: Revenues · Operating income: OperatingIncomeLoss · Interest expense: InterestExpense · D&A: DepreciationDepletionAndAmortization · EPS: EarningsPerShareDiluted · Market cap: SEC shares (dei EntityCommonStockSharesOutstanding (cover page)) × EOD close · P/E: EOD close ÷ SEC TTM EPS (EarningsPerShareDiluted).
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FAQ
- What is MCD's House Rating?
- MCD scores 51 out of 100 (grade C) as of 2026-10-16, ranking #47 of 128 Consumer Discretionary stocks we cover.
- What do analysts say about MCD?
- ThetaGrade's analyst-sentiment pillar for MCD scores 50/100 against its sector peers, which we read as mixed. This is our own derived score; we do not republish individual analyst ratings, counts or targets.
- When does MCD report earnings next?
- We do not have a reliable estimate for MCD's next earnings date (irregular SEC filing history); a rough window is 2026-10-27 to 2026-11-12. Check the company's investor-relations page.
- Is MCD a buy?
- ThetaGrade does not give personal advice. The House Rating is an educational, rules-based summary of public data; see the methodology for how it is built.
Sources: SEC EDGAR filings (fetched 2026-10-18), Finnhub recommendation trends, Massive EOD prices. Scores are sector percentiles; a factor without usable data is a data gap: it is left out and the remaining weights are renormalized (nothing is imputed). Educational only. Methodology