Carl Sibilski
Carl Sibilski
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This is definitely very bad news. Until now, we had given the company's management the benefit of the doubt with respect to certain franchise-acquisition activities. We believe that the SEC's decision indicates that, for some reason, cooperation between the company and the agency in the preceding informal investigation broke down, leading the commission to seek the greater legal powers of a formal investigation.
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It makes sense for McDonald's to focus their top management efforts on the Golden Arches.
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If McDonald's is going to be a $45 to $50 stock someday, they're going to need growth from China.
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McDonald's crossed the $20 billion mark for the first time in global sales and also did it while translating 12.7 percent of that into net income, which is very admirable for a restaurant company.
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They have spent more time trying to make it okay for you to go to McDonald's with your friends because they ran into a branding problem where it kind of wasn't socially acceptable for older kids.
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The breakfast market is dominated by McDonald's at this point. So the big question for me would be will they be able to generate the critical mass of breakfast sales? They might be able to do it.
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Much of Avon's premium valuation is built on the market's expectation that the firm will continue to tick off positive financial results with the precision of a fine watch. While we think Avon has a stable business model, it's not immune to business hiccups.
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This is a company that has everything going right for it, at least for now, ... History has shown that investors are always optimistic about the company. At the same time, the stock does sell off quickly when sales begin to look shaky.