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Does It Look To You That McDonalds Is Gaining Legs Again?

Here is it's three month chart. Let's add some flavour. Let's pull up the details of a April 21st blog I wrote. 2,200 new stores being opened this year, up slightly from the year before. Even if same store sales are now off slightly isn't the projectory still upwards? Their business model still seems to be working. Now this, part of a May 1st 2025 blog. A razor thin adjustments to profits. That's what makes figuring out what is going to happen next so difficult. Now a look at how McDonalds traded on Feb. 6th, 2025. This was the morning after it's quarterly earnings report. Now a look at something more extreme. Let's now go back to a different reality three years ago. The McDonald's story is constantly in a state of evolution. The following snippet might help you realize the power of these quarterly earning reports. Sometimes they are stonger than expected. August 6th will be the date their next earnings report comes out. Here now is how McDonald...
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One Analyst Pays A Visit To A Company Shop

.As the title says one analyst pays a visit to a company shop (he has a big bag of junior stocks to research and write about) and walks away starry eyed. Only in Canada.
Here is the stocks five year and one year chart.
Here are the January 2024 Call options.
Thirty dollars down to two dollars a share, what a ride for investors. So many "let's go electric" companies have had to go back to the well, often many times to ask for more money which dilutes the stock price. See my previous blogs on this company. Retail investors have no stomach for these kinds of stocks which have had a poor track record of providing meaningful guidance. Yet the macro winds are changing as our governments are going all in. Consider this.
The world is going electric and little companies like Lion Electric are fighting for a piece of the action. So many electric vehicle stocks have disappointed. Names, in a random order like Polestar - PSNY, Fisker - FSR, - Lordstown - RIDE, Lucid LCID, Sono Group - SEV, Mullen Automotive MULN, Livewire Group - LVWR, Electrameccanica - Solo and Faraday Future Intelligent - FFie (.21 cents trading 58.3 million shares on Friday). The lazy way to play all this is just to buy Toyota and be near center stage of this electric vehicle ride.
One final note. On August 17th I wrote a blog on Taiga Motors, a Quebec electric snowmobile company and the National Bank had an "outperform" ranking on it. Guess what? Here it is now.
Go figure. *** Which company would I be scared of going short most? Well maybe Taiga Motors. Trail blazing companies such as this one sometimes run out of money as they go up the ladder of rising costs on the dream of getting finished products in high demand shipping out their rear doors. Honestly, I know nothing about this industry other than to think the bigger producers in this field are or only a season or two away from having a version of the same thing and have dealer networks and more marketing skills.

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