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MCD

McDonald's

Industry
Unclassified
Exchange
NYSE
Leaders covered
8
Market data
1990–2025

Chief executive

Chris Kempczinski

Nov 2019 – present

2026 reading

Even

1 signal, 1 drag

Firm 3 of 4 · Even 3 of 3 rose

Chris Kempczinski at MCD, by year
YearReadingStackedMCDResult
2025Firm1 signal, 0 drags+7.9%Rose
2024Firm1 signal, 0 drags−0.5%Fell
2023Firm1 signal, 0 drags+15.1%Rose
2022Firm1 signal, 0 drags+0.5%Rose
2021Even0 signals, 0 drags+27.8%Rose
2020Even0 signals, 0 drags+11.3%Rose
2019Even0 signals, 0 drags+14.0%Rose

Former chief executive

Steve Easterbrook

Mar 2015 – Nov 2019

5 years on record

Firm 2 of 2 · Even 2 of 2 · Weak 1 of 1 rose

Steve Easterbrook at MCD, by year
YearReadingStackedMCDResult
2019Even0 signals, 0 drags+14.0%Rose
2018Weak0 signals, 1 drag+5.8%Rose
2017Firm1 signal, 0 drags+45.1%Rose
2016Firm1 signal, 0 drags+6.2%Rose
2015Even0 signals, 0 drags+30.4%Rose

Former chief executive

Don Thompson

Jul 2012 – Mar 2015

4 years on record

Even 2 of 3 · Soft 0 of 1 rose

Don Thompson at MCD, by year
YearReadingStackedMCDResult
2015Even0 signals, 1 drag+30.4%Rose
2014Soft0 signals, 1 drag−0.1%Fell
2013Even0 signals, 0 drags+13.6%Rose
2012Even0 signals, 0 drags−9.3%Fell

Former chief executive

Charlie Bell

Apr 2004 – Nov 2004

No reading on record

Charlie is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Former chief executive

Jim Cantalupo

Jan 2003 – Apr 2004

No reading on record

Jim is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Former chief executive

Michael Quinlan

Mar 1987 – Aug 1998

No reading on record

Michael is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Former chief executive

Fred Turner

Jun 1973 – Mar 1990

No reading on record

Fred is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Founder, no longer in the role

Ray Kroc

Apr 1955 – Jan 1984

No reading on record

Ray is on the site but not among the leaders the readings were computed over.

Readings
One of five levels a year, with how many signals and drags stacked, computed from the birth date over the thirteen possible birth hours and issued only where at least ten agree. Built 2026-10-16 from research export f0c9e40. The rules stay in-house.
Stock data
Calendar-year and monthly % change of adjusted close. Volatility % = annualised stdev of the 12 monthly returns. No prices are included. Adjusted close is split-adjusted, so a stock split never appears as a move in anything plotted here, and stock splits are not recorded as events.
Birth dates
206 of the 319 people in this dataset now have at least one source recorded here, across 207 of the 325 leader-company records — six people ran two companies and are stored once for each. Of those sources — all 207 of them — 204 are a stated age read out of an SEC proxy statement, which bounds a birth year and says nothing about the day; one is an age stated in a press report; two state the day itself, one from an official gazette read by a person and one from an encyclopedia. The day is what every reading on this site is calculated from, so for all but those two birth dates no source here backs the part that is used. The 204 records the pass produced were not reviewed by a person: each source names who read it. Six findings from the same pass are deliberately not entered, because in each one the date held here falls outside the bound the filing implies, and telling an ordinary record-date lag from a real disagreement needs a person rather than arithmetic. An absent entry still means no source is recorded here yet.
Research export
Version 2, generated 2026-10-16 from research commit 7d490ef with uncommitted changes

Research and exploration only. Not investment advice. A reading describes a leader's year from their birth date, not the stock.