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This will be our last Inner Circle Q&A for 2015. Our next issue will go out on Tuesday, January 5, 2016.
Now is a good time for me to say “Thanks!” to all our Inner Circle members. It’s a pleasure to read and answer your questions. I take great pleasure and pride from the many compliments and expressions of gratitude you send every week.
That’s especially true when I hear from a member who I recognize from decades ago—from the early days after the 1994 launch of The Successful Investor, or from the two prior decades that I spent at The Investment Reporter and MPL Communications.
It’s also great to see that our Successful Investor philosophy and practice have begun attracting more and more younger investors.
I wish you all a great year-end holiday and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!
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Now is a good time for me to say “Thanks!” to all our Inner Circle members. It’s a pleasure to read and answer your questions. I take great pleasure and pride from the many compliments and expressions of gratitude you send every week.
That’s especially true when I hear from a member who I recognize from decades ago—from the early days after the 1994 launch of The Successful Investor, or from the two prior decades that I spent at The Investment Reporter and MPL Communications.
It’s also great to see that our Successful Investor philosophy and practice have begun attracting more and more younger investors.
I wish you all a great year-end holiday and a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year!
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In last Friday’s Wall Street Stock Forecaster Hotline, we analyzed the great results that McDonald’s Corp., $111.55, symbol MCD on New York (Shares outstanding: 941.8 million; Market cap: $105.7 billion; www.mcdonalds.com), reported for the three months ended September 30. It was a standout quarter, particularly compared to the weak results that many companies have reported this year.
The first media comment we saw on these results took the view that the stock had gone up enough to offset the improvement in its results. The investment reporter quoted what he called “cynical observers” who said “there was almost no way but up” for the stock. These observers pointed out that McDonald’s had trailed the market by 62 percentage points during a recent three-year period, and that the company had only registered growth in global same-store sales in one quarter out of the past seven.
The statistics in the last sentence are true. But when you analyze a stock, you can come to a wide range of conclusions, depending on the breadth of data you choose, and the beginning and end dates of the periods you look at.
McDonald’s stock price rose from pennies per share (adjusted for stock splits along the way) in the 1970s to a peak of $45 in 1999. Like a lot of high-quality stocks, it suffered in the first few years of the new millennium, and fell to as low as $12 in early 2003. Then it began another monumental rise.
It sailed through the 2008-2009 market downturn with barely a scratch. It hit an all-time high of $67 in August 2008. The following month, the U.S. federal government took control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. McDonald’s fell on this news like the rest of the market. In October 2008, it hit $46, an 18-month low. The stock then resumed its rise and hit $100 in October 2011.
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The first media comment we saw on these results took the view that the stock had gone up enough to offset the improvement in its results. The investment reporter quoted what he called “cynical observers” who said “there was almost no way but up” for the stock. These observers pointed out that McDonald’s had trailed the market by 62 percentage points during a recent three-year period, and that the company had only registered growth in global same-store sales in one quarter out of the past seven.
The statistics in the last sentence are true. But when you analyze a stock, you can come to a wide range of conclusions, depending on the breadth of data you choose, and the beginning and end dates of the periods you look at.
McDonald’s stock price rose from pennies per share (adjusted for stock splits along the way) in the 1970s to a peak of $45 in 1999. Like a lot of high-quality stocks, it suffered in the first few years of the new millennium, and fell to as low as $12 in early 2003. Then it began another monumental rise.
It sailed through the 2008-2009 market downturn with barely a scratch. It hit an all-time high of $67 in August 2008. The following month, the U.S. federal government took control of mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, and Lehman Brothers filed the largest bankruptcy case in U.S. history. McDonald’s fell on this news like the rest of the market. In October 2008, it hit $46, an 18-month low. The stock then resumed its rise and hit $100 in October 2011.
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