MCD McDonald’s Franchisee Survey Leads to Updated Q4E Forecasts

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 23, 2020 at 12:00 AM

McDonald’s plans to release its full-Q3 earnings before the market open on Monday, November 9th, to be followed that day by the related earnings release conference call and a Virtual Investor Update. McDonald’s has already released its Q3 samestore sales results, including a U.S. advance of +4.6%.

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SBUX Updating Estimates Ahead of 10.29 Earnings Release (and Tidbits)

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 21, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Starbucks plans to report its fiscal fourth-quarter earnings after the market close on Thursday, October 29th. Ahead of that release, we move up our fiscal Q4E U.S. samestore sales forecast by +2 percentage points, to -11%. This reflects the previouslyannounced -14% number from July and -11% figure from August. Implicitly, our updated full-Q4E projection presumes about a -8% to -9% estimate for September. FYI, according to Consensus Metrix, sell-side consensus for full-fiscal Q4E is at -11.8% (although keep in mind that Starbucks does not report out its same-store sales past the decimal point).

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WEN Is Wendy’s Overtaking Burger King as the #2 U.S. Burger Concept

By Mark Kalinowski Published on October 15, 2020 at 12:00 AM

Based on our math, it looks like Wendy’s is in the process of decisively overtaking Burger King (owned by Restaurant Brands International [QSR; Not Rated]) as the 2nd-largest burger concept in the U.S., based on domestic systemwide sales.

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