Eating Chicken Nuggets Just Got Safer
It’s the world’s largest restaurant chain, serving 27 million customers daily so there’s a lot McDonald’s gets right. Yet over the past five years, the stock has sharply underperformed the S&P 500 (+50 percent vs +82 percent) and an examination of the sales and profit growth prospects for the company, vital indicators in the cyclical consumer sector show McDonald’s lagging in all key areas. Long-term growth estimates for the company at 6.3 percent are almost half that for its peer group (which includes Yum! Brands Inc and Wendy’s), while McDonald’s revenue growth for the current year is forecast at -5.6 percent vs.…