McDonald's Corporation (MCD)

MCD · Consumer Discretionary · United States

McDonald's Corporation (MCD) is a company in the Consumer Discretionary sector, based in United States. The stock is held in 21 ETFs we track – with its largest weight of 3.66 % in XUCC (msci-usa-consumer-discretionary). Anyone holding one of these ETFs also owns a small indirect stake in McDonald's Corporation.

Above-average ETF coverage: 21 of the 95 ETFs we cover hold McDonald's Corporation, spread across 10 indices. That puts the stock in more ETFs than 85.2 % of the 4,334 stocks we cover.

Held in21 ETFs

Highest weight3.66 %

Indices10

SectorConsumer Discretionary

CountryUnited States

ISINUS5801351017

WKN856958

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Price chart

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Performance

Performance
Year to date	-18.7 %	1 year	-18.0 %
1 month	-6.4 %	3 months	-12.4 %
Calendar year 2025	+5.4 %

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Measured in euros, McDonald's Corporation returned -17.2 % year to date and -16.1 % over one year. The gap to the dollar figures above comes from the exchange rate alone: each daily price is converted at the ECB euro reference rate for the same day.

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Risk metrics

Max drawdown-27.1 %

Volatility p.a.18.9 %

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Below peak-27.1 %

Beta to S&P 500-0.01

Correlation to S&P 500-0.01

The close on Sep 16, 2026 was 27.1 % below the highest close since Jul 11, 2024, reached on Feb 27, 2026. Over the last 252 trading days, on days when the S&P 500 rose or fell 1 %, McDonald's Corporation moved on average 0.01 % in the opposite direction. The correlation of -0.01 shows how reliable that average is: the broad market explained only a small share of the daily moves.

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Correlated with

The strongest co-movers on top, the most inverse below. Low or negative values improve portfolio diversification.

Correlated with
Instrument	r	−1 … +1
Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.	+0.61
Colgate-Palmolive Company	+0.61
Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.	+0.59
Brown & Brown Inc.	+0.58
Erie Indemnity Company Class A	+0.58
VICI Properties Inc	+0.58
Teradyne Inc.	-0.52
FLEX Ltd.	-0.48
Keysight Technologies Inc	-0.48

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Key financials

Latest reported fiscal year (FY2025, period end 2025-12-31) as filed with the SEC.

Revenue26.9 bn $

Net income8.6 bn $

Diluted EPS11.95 $

Net margin31.9 %

Return on equity-478.1 %

Equity ratio-3.0 %

Revenue growth+3.7 %

Revenue and profit by fiscal year
Fiscal year	Revenue	Net income	Margin
FY2023	25.5	8.5	33.2 %
FY2024	25.9	8.2	31.7 %
FY2025	26.9	8.6	31.9 %

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Held in these ETFs

Held in these ETFs
ETF	Index	Weight	per €1,000 in the ETF
XUCC / XUCD	msci-usa-consumer-discretionary	3.66 %	€36.60
CIND	dow-jones	2.86 %	€28.60
XDWC	msci-world-consumer-discretionary	2.32 %	€23.20
WCOD	msci-world-consumer-discretionary	2.30 %	€23.00
XDEB	msci-world-minimum-volatility	0.86 %	€8.60
SPYL / SPY5	sp500	0.27 %	€2.70
SXR8	sp500	0.27 %	€2.70
XD9U / XD9D	msci-usa	0.27 %	€2.70
EUNL	msci-world	0.20 %	€2.00
XDWD / XDWL	msci-world	0.20 %	€2.00
SWWD	msci-world	0.19 %	€1.90
SPPW	msci-world	0.19 %	€1.90
WIMI	msci-world-imi	0.18 %	€1.80
SPYY	msci-acwi	0.17 %	€1.70
IUSQ	msci-acwi	0.17 %	€1.70
SPYI / SPSA	msci-acwi-imi	0.13 %	€1.30

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The last column turns the weight into euros: this much of €1,000 invested in one of these funds is allocated to McDonald's Corporation as of the fund's latest holdings list.

Weight in EUNL since 2019

Sep 30, 2019Sep 16, 2026

In EUNL, a fund tracking the MSCI World, McDonald's Corporation had a weight of 0.39 % on Sep 30, 2019 and 0.20 % on Sep 16, 2026. Its share peaked at 0.39 % on Sep 30, 2019. The weight rises and falls with the stock's price relative to the other index members, and it also shifts when the index provider changes the composition.

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How much McDonald's Corporation overlaps with other holdings in a portfolio is shown by the Portfolio X-Ray and the ETF overlap check.

Stocks with similar ETF exposure

Names that reach a portfolio through largely the same funds as McDonald's Corporation — the figure counts the ETFs holding both.

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Key figures side by side

Key figures compared with stocks of similar ETF exposure
Stock	1 year	Volatility p.a.	Net margin	Revenue growth
McDonald's Corporation	-18.0 %	18.9 %	31.9 %	+3.7 %
NIKE	-50.8 %	37.5 %	6.7 %	+0.2 %
AutoZone	-32.6 %	25.5 %	13.2 %	+2.4 %
Yum! Brands	-6.8 %	23.4 %	19.0 %	+8.8 %
Home Depot	-28.2 %	23.9 %	8.6 %	+3.2 %
TJX Companies Inc	-12.0 %	19.6 %	–	–
Carvana	-10.3 %	66.2 %	6.9 %	+48.6 %
Expedia Group	+27.6 %	45.6 %	8.8 %	+7.6 %
Las Vegas Sands	-20.8 %	36.2 %	12.5 %	+15.2 %

Return and volatility from our daily closing prices in US dollars; margin and growth from the latest SEC annual filing. Fiscal years do not all end on the same date.