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This Will Be McDonald’s Stock Price Next Year

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This Will Be McDonald’s Stock Price Next Year Quick Read McDonald’s (MCD) achieved Q4 2025 revenue of $7B (up 9.7% year-over-year) and EPS of $3.12, beating estimates, while its loyalty platform scaled to 210 million active users generating approximately $37B in annual sales and driving 6.8% U.S…
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  • McDonald's executed a V-shaped recovery through 2025, its loyalty platform is scaling rapidly, and valuation remains reasonable for a franchise-dominant, cash-generating business of this quality

    60% confidence
  • Loyalty program is approaching 250 million users

    60% confidence
  • McDonald's stock price target is $342, implying 9.7% upside over the next 12 months

    60% confidence
  • McDonald's plans 2,600 new restaurant openings globally in 2026 to drive 2.5% systemwide sales growth

    60% confidence
  • 24/7 Wall St. recommendation is buy with a 90% confidence level

    60% confidence
  • The risk-reward tilts constructively for patient investors based on comp sales acceleration, loyalty program scaling to $37 billion in annual sales, and continued restaurant expansion in 2026

    60% confidence

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McDonald's Corporation · stock return ytd0.77 percent
McDonald's Corporation · stock return 1y0.28 percent
McDonald's Corporation · comparable sales growth global5.7 percent
McDonald's Corporation · eps3.12 USD
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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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