McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 1.33% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $302.36.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $298.39, falling within a range of $297.44 and $302.74. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.556 whereas the PE ratio is 26.67 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $326.32, and the low was $246.12. On the whole, MCD has fluctuated by 0.64% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of McDonald’s Corp currently standing at about $216.19 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-May-01. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 6.98, with its dividend yield at 2.31%.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that MCD’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of Hold while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a Hold.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 3.80, with the price of MCD currently trading nearly 2.99% and -0.91% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 56.61, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.12% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.54%. Furthermore, McDonald’s Corp (MCD)’s beta value is 0.52.
A comparison of McDonald’s Corp (MCD) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. MCD showed an intraday change of 1.33% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 4.30%%.
Data on historical trading for McDonald’s Corp (NYSE:MCD) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 4.38 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 3.47 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 715.00 million shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.08% of McDonald’s Corp’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 75.28% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 7.79 million shares as on 2025-06-13, resulting in a short ratio of 2.73. According to the data, the short interest in McDonald’s Corp (MCD) stood at 109.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-06-13; the number of short shares registered in 2025-05-15 reached 9.63 million. The stock has risen by 23.00% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the MCD stock heading into the next quarter.