McDonald’s will announce its Q4 2011 results on January 24. After strong Q3 performance, we expect the trend to continue in the last quarter of 2011 backed by impressive comparable global sales in the months of October and November.
The stock had a stellar 2011, returning better than 30% including dividends, and rose by more than 10% last quarter.
McDonald’s competes with Yum! Brands, Subway, Starbucks, Sonic, Wendy’s and many others.
Below are a couple of interesting trends emerging not only in Q4 but also in the coming years.