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20 Dividend Champions With Highest 10-Year Dividend Growth Rates
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Dividend Champions with fastest 10 year dividend growth originally published at “ long-term-investments.blogspot.com “. Dividend Champions are popular because of the...
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No Time to Relax, More Significant Correction May Be in the Works
Submitted by Abby Joseph as part of our contributors program . By George Leong, B.Comm. for Profit Confidential The stock market came off its worst week this year; but even given the minor correction, I don’t think we can relax enough to ...
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McDonald’s Reports Weak Results As Dollar Meals Hurt Profitability
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) announced its first quarter results which failed to enthuse investors. Total revenues increased 1% to $6.60 billion while operating income was down 1% to $1.95 billion. Net income remained flat at $1.27 bil...
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McDonald’s Earnings Preview: Expect A Tough First Quarter
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is scheduled to announce its earnings on April 16. It will be a tough quarter for the world’s largest fast food chain because of several reasons. Firstly, it faces a difficult comparison since the sal...
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10 Fasted Growing Dogs Of The Dow Jones Index
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . Stock prices go up and yields come down. That’s a major fact we have realized over the recent years. Now, the S&P 500 has a current yield of 2.0 percent (despite divid...
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Developing Markets Offer McDonald’s Big Growth But Slimmer Profits
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) recently announced that it will expand into Eastern Russia by adding 150 new stores in the next three years. Russia is a big growth opportunity since the nation of 140 million only has 357 McDonald’s ...
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Are McDonald’s Rising Sales Coming At The Cost Of Margins?
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) global same-store sales fell 1.5% in February. The results initially might paint a worrisome picture, but a closer look reveals that the situation might not be as bad as it seems. Firstly, last year Februa...
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Why Comparisons For McDonald’s Profit Margins Can Be Misleading
While comparing various restaurants, investors often highlight how McDonald’s juicy operating margins of over 30% are better than those of Chipotle Mexican Grill (NYSE:CMG) or Panera Bread or even Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX). What they fail to ...
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10 Top Dogs Of The Dow Jones
Submitted by Dividend Yield as part of our contributors program . When you read my blog over a longer period, you would get some ideas of stocks you have never heard before. That’s because my database includes all stocks of the market an...
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McDonald’s Earnings Helped By Value Meals But Near-Term Outlook Remains Challenging
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) announced its Q4 results which were boosted by value meals and limited-time offerings such as the McRib sandwich. Net revenues grew 2% to $7 billion while the net income rose to $1.40 billion or $1.38 per s...
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McDonald’s Earnings Preview: Value Meals, Food Costs Could Munch On Margins
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) is scheduled to announce its Q4 earnings on January 23, 2013. The stock has had a bumpy 2012, going as high as $101 in the initial part of the year before retreating to $84 in November. The company has stru...
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Less Is Still More For U.S. Restaurant Chains Amid A Weak Economy
While the country might have avoided the fiscal cliff with lawmakers finally passing the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 (ATRA), it seems the restaurant chains are still not confident about the consumer spending environment going into 2013. ...
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A Snapshot of McDonald’s Corporation
McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD), the world’s biggest fast food chain, has more than 33,000 restaurants worldwide. More than 80% of its global restaurants are franchised while the remaining 20% are company-operated. Its target audience is...
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McDonald’s Same-Store Sales Rebound But Tough Times To Stay
McDonald’s Corporation ‘s (NYSE:MCD) same-store sales growth rebounded to 2.4% in November after they turned negative for the first time in nine years last month. McDonald’s shares have had a roller coaster year with the stock p...
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An ETF Strategy For An Uncertain Market Climate
Submitted by Covestor as part of our contributors program Bill DeShurko We’ve been whipsawed several times this year with trades in and out of the SPDR Barclays High Yield Bond ETF (JNK) . It seems to have happened again as JNK has moved ...
