Thursday October 21, 2021, 07:00:00

MCD: McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Part 2 Focuses on Crispy Chicken Sandwiches

By Mark Kalinowski

Today we publish part 2 of 2 of the October 2021 edition of our proprietary McDonald’s Franchisee Survey. Much of this report focuses on how sales are going at present for the new-and-improved chicken sandwiches that McDonald’s launched in mid-Q1.

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Wednesday October 20, 2021, 07:00:00

MCD: Latest McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Shows Relations with Franchisees Mending

By Mark Kalinowski

McDonald’s plans to release its Q3 earnings before the market open on Wednesday, October 27th. For Q3E, we retain our existing McDonald’s U.S. same-store sales forecast of +8.5%. According to Consensus Metrix data (as of this writing), sell-side consensus is at +8.2%.

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Tuesday August 31, 2021, 07:00:00

MCD: McDonald’s Top 25 Markets for 2021E Operating Profits

By Mark Kalinowski

With this note, we take a look at the geographical breakdown of our full-year 2021E McDonald’s operating income forecast of $9.863 billion.

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