{"id":40617,"date":"2013-08-03T14:06:30","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T18:06:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/forex-news\/?p=40617"},"modified":"2013-08-03T15:47:57","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T19:47:57","slug":"mcdonalds-proving-position-as-best-of-breed-in-the-fast-food-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/03\/mcdonalds-proving-position-as-best-of-breed-in-the-fast-food-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald\u2019s Proving Position as \u201cBest of Breed\u201d in the Fast Food Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Profit Confidential<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/stock-market\/mcdonalds-proving-position-as-best-of-breed-in-the-fast-food-sector\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-40379\" alt=\"buying opportunity\" src=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/020813_PC_leong.jpg\" width=\"231\" height=\"154\" \/><\/a>There may be some slowing in the fast food sector, but I look at this as more of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/buying-opportunity\/\" target=\"_blank\">buying opportunity<\/a> than a time to sell. The trick is simple: you need to make sure you have the right stocks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As many of you know, my top buying opportunity in the fast food sector is McDonalds Corporation (NYSE\/MCD). The restaurant, with its \u201cgolden arches\u201d that are easily recognizable from miles away, is\u2014and in my estimate, will continue to be\u2014the \u201cBest of Breed\u201d in its sector. There will obviously be challengers, but I highly doubt any company will be able to vault over McDonalds. (Read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/stock-market\/the-secret-to-success-in-the-fast-food-sector\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret to Success in the Fast Food Sector<\/a>.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Below, the chart of McDonalds shows the company\u2019s impressive and steady share price appreciation from less than $20.00 in 2003 to more than $98.00 today. (What a great buying opportunity that was a decade ago!)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">As you can see in the chart, the stock (red candlesticks) has also outperformed the S&amp;P 500 (green line), based on my technical analysis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\">\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McDonald-Corp-Chart.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40378\" alt=\"McDonald Corp Chart\" src=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/McDonald-Corp-Chart.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"245\" \/><\/a><i><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\" align=\"center\"><i>Chart courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stockcharts.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.StockCharts.com<\/a><\/i><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostAd wpInsertMiddle\" style=\"margin: 5px;padding: 0px\">\n<div id='sponsored_ad'>\n<p><strong>Still worried about the economy? Become a charter member of <em>DAILY PROFITS <br \/>\n<\/em>and you could&#8230;<span style=\"font-size:16px\"><strong>TRIPLE YOUR MONEY IN A MONTH!<\/strong><\/span> <a href='http:\/\/www.lombardifinancial.com\/reports\/DailyProfits\/Landing\/index.php?dept=PC&amp;sb=PCSITEEXT'>Learn how here!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Of course, there will be those companies that will try to emulate the success that made McDonalds what it is today\u2014a $100-billion worldwide fast food empire and a good long-term buying opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Take Burger King Worldwide, Inc. (NYSE\/BKW), for instance, which is about 14-times smaller than McDonalds based on market capitalization. The seller of the \u201cWhopper\u201d has expanded its menu offerings, but based on the results so far, it is not a threat to the \u201cBig Mac.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">In its second quarter, Burger King reported an abysmal 48.5% decline in its revenues to $278.3 million\u2014well below the Thomson Financial consensus estimate of $322.3 million. The company blamed its plunge in revenues on the business climate and competition.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Heck, while I\u2019m not much of a fast food eater, I would be more inclined to go to McDonalds than Burger King. But another one of my top fast food stocks is Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE\/CMG), which may also offer an attractive buying opportunity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">A few months back, I also talked about Denny\u2019s Corporation (NASDAQ\/DENN), the maker of the \u201cGrand Slam\u201d breakfast, as a potential buying opportunity. (Read \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.profitconfidential.com\/stock-market-advice\/dennys-serves-up-grand-slam-returns\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denny\u2019s Serves Up Grand-Slam Returns<\/a>.\u201d) Denny\u2019s is no match for McDonalds, but it\u2019s not meant to be, as it\u2019s in a different class of restaurants with a focus on dine-in and higher-cost food and services.<\/p>\n<p> Article by <a href=\"http:\/\/profitconfidential.com\/\">profitconfidential.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Profit Confidential There may be some slowing in the fast food sector, but I look at this as more of a buying opportunity than a time to sell. The trick is simple: you need to make sure you have the right stocks. As many of you know, my top buying opportunity in the fast &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/2013\/08\/03\/mcdonalds-proving-position-as-best-of-breed-in-the-fast-food-sector\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;McDonald\u2019s Proving Position as \u201cBest of Breed\u201d in the Fast Food Sector&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40617","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/forex-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}