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Excellent news. Thank you.

agip,

Here is an addition to the debate. I have no control over people making foolish investment decisions. And I certainly don't mind being called out on my opinion. But lets look at the actual numbers for 3rd Quarter, and tell me how you spin it other than the stock price has gone up?

Revenue

2015 $4.28 Billion

2016 $3.97 Billion

Net Income

2015 $1.31 Billion

2016 $1.27 Billion

EPS

2015 $1.40

2016 $1.50

Weighted Average shares outstanding-diluted

2015 934.8 million

2016 847.7 million

So, the 7% improvement in EPS was fueled by a 9% reduction in share count.

SO WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Igy

[quote]agip wrote:

[quote]Ghost of Igloi wrote:

but a point away from Igy

He suggested MCD was not a buy a year ago, when wall street was cheering the stock for some positive numbers. The analysts were clearly right - the stock is up around 12% from that point, vs. around 8 for the SP500.

Odd. I just looked this up and the current stock price is $113 .93 while exactly one year ago it closed at $110.87. Now I did not do the calculation on a computer or spread sheet, but that's a 3% return.

Not 12%. Not even close.

agip wrote:

He suggested MCD was not a buy a year ago, when wall street was cheering the stock for some positive numbers. The analysts were clearly right - the stock is up around 12% from that point, vs. around 8 for the SP500.

page 359 if you want to review the debate.

His designation as the DGTD contrarian indicator is well deserved. I've made some nice coin doing the opposite of what he's recommended.

Jeffy Tull wrote:

[quote]agip wrote:

[quote]Ghost of Igloi wrote:

but a point away from Igy

He suggested MCD was not a buy a year ago, when wall street was cheering the stock for some positive numbers. The analysts were clearly right - the stock is up around 12% from that point, vs. around 8 for the SP500.

Odd. I just looked this up and the current stock price is $113 .93 while exactly one year ago it closed at $110.87. Now I did not do the calculation on a computer or spread sheet, but that's a 3% return.

Not 12%. Not even close.

In fact it closed at over $131 on May 10th of this year. So down, what, maybe 14 percent in last five plus months.

Big Dog Investments wrote:

agip wrote:

He suggested MCD was not a buy a year ago, when wall street was cheering the stock for some positive numbers. The analysts were clearly right - the stock is up around 12% from that point, vs. around 8 for the SP500.

page 359 if you want to review the debate.

His designation as the DGTD contrarian indicator is well deserved. I've made some nice coin doing the opposite of what he's recommended.

DGTD = Discontinuous Galerkin Time Domain (of Maxwell's Equations)??

The 12 month gain of MCD is presently a whopping 2.76% (yesterday it was 0%). As I said earlier "sell in May and Go away" but if you didn't do that, Igy's right (this time).

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

SO WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Igy

In the share price, of course.

Wendy,Actually it is in the $8 Billion of long term debt the company added over the past year. I trust you are on a low colesterol diet because you just bought a Veggie Burger with a side order of heartburn.Igy

Wendy wrote:

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

SO WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Igy

In the share price, of course.

Sorry, but you're wrong.

Wendy,7% improvement in EPS engineered through 9% lowered shared count financed by $Billions in debt. OK, wish you well.Igy

Wendy wrote:

Sorry, but you're wrong.

Wendy,

By the way I like their product. I recently went on a road trip with my wife and ate there twice. Prefer their breakfast and salads. I believe this strategy of driving the stock price by financial engineering is very short sided.

Igy

Wendy wrote:

Ghost of Igloi wrote:

SO WHERE'S THE BEEF?

Igy

In the share price, of course.

Finally somebody who "gets it."

Beets,

It's a Veggie Burger perfect for a vegan. Stop by the drive thru and don't forget the side order of heartburn.

Igy

[quote]Ghost of Igloi wrote:

Wendy,

7% improvement in EPS engineered through 9% lowered shared count financed by $Billions in debt. OK, wish you well.

Igy

Hi, K5/Igy! Still haven't learned to use the board's quote function I see. Well it's only been 3 years. Keep trying!

Detector Dude,

Nice, but actually about 19 months and 20 days, but whatever you say.

Igy

K5 detector wrote:

Hi, K5/Igy! Still haven't learned to use the board's quote function I see. Well it's only been 3 years. Keep trying!

Butt hurt guy. I see you are still posting your nonsensical, repetitive, drivel.

Agip busted on MCD stock price.

You ramble on about quote function.

We've been here before.

Hi, K5/Igy! 10 minutes is getting better, but the back-to-back posting is still a dead giveaway. Anyway congrats on finally figuring out the quote function. Now don't regress like you just did with you love for all things "butt hurt".

Yet another positive week with the strongest weekly gains in over a month! When will this long-running Bull rest? Life is good!

The future looks bright!

After several quarters of year-over-year declines, analysts currently expect revenue growth to return in Q3 2016 and earnings growth to return in Q4 2016. In terms of earnings, the growth rates for Q3 2016 and Q4 2016 are -0.3% and 5.5%. In terms of revenues, the growth rates for Q3 2016 and Q4 2016 are 2.6% and 5.2%.

For all of 2016, analysts are projecting earnings growth of 0.1% and revenue growth of 2.2%.

For all of 2017, analysts are projecting earnings growth of 12.4% and revenue growth of 6.0%.