McDonald’s numbers for 2006, and especially the fourth quarter, were extraordinary.
In the last quarter of the year, revenue rose 11% to $5.634 billion. Income from continuing operations was up 26% to $761 million. In the US, McDonald’s (MCD) now has had four straight years of continued increases in same-store sales and profits.
Although revenue was a tiny bit short of Wall St. estimates, the larger question is how long McDonald’s can keep it up. Perhaps forever. The company will put $1.8 billion into the opening of 800 new restaurants in 2007.
With its stock up from under $32 to $45 over the last year, those stores better pay off.
Douglas A. McIntyre can be reached at [email protected]. He does not own securities in companies that he writes about.
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