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McDonald's MCD EV / sales

EV / sales at other companies

Starbucks logo
StarbucksSBUX
3.2×-0.5×
Yum! Brands logo
Yum! BrandsYUM
5.3×-0.4×
Chipotle Mexican Grill logo
Chipotle Mexican GrillCMG
3.8×-2.4×
Restaurant Brands International logo
Restaurant Brands InternationalQSR
4.2×0.0×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$6.5B+9.4%
Gross profit$5.8B+9.5%
Operating income$3.0B+11.5%
Net income$2.0B+6.2%
EPS (diluted)$2.78+6.9%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.2B-5.5%
Total debt$54.9B+4.0%
Total equity-$1.3B+62.8%
Total assets$60.0B+6.6%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$2.4B-0.7%
CapEx$682.0M+23.8%
Free cash flow$1.7B-7.8%

Valuation

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Market cap$197.95B-0.8%
Enterprise value$251.67B+0.1%
P/E22.8×-1.6×
P/S7.2×-0.6×

Profitability

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Gross margin86.6%
Operating margin46.3%+1.0pp
Net margin31.6%-0.1pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity45.4%
Debt / equity6.5×
Current ratio1.1×0.0×

Where this comes from

Calculated from McDonald's’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: McDonald's’s 10-Q, filed May 7, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is McDonald's's EV / sales?
McDonald's (MCD) reported EV / sales of 10× in Q1 2026.
How has McDonald's's EV / sales changed year-over-year?
McDonald's's EV / sales decreased by 6.2% year-over-year, from 10.7× to 10×.
What is the long-term trend for McDonald's's EV / sales?
Over 3 years (2021 to 2025), McDonald's's EV / sales has grown at a -0.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 41.5× to 41.3×.
What does EV / sales mean?
What the whole business costs relative to its annual sales.
How do you interpret EV / sales?
A fallback valuation gauge for pre-profit or cyclical firms. Like P/S, only comparable across similar-margin businesses, but it accounts for debt and cash unlike P/S.
How does EV / sales compare across companies?
Compare within a margin cohort; the debt-and-cash adjustment makes it cleaner than P/S for leveraged firms.