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We can see that McDonald’s has drastically reduced its debt to equity ratio.
The company is currently using 65% of its debt to finance its operations. We feel
McDonald’s will continue to lower this figure and are in far better shape compared
to industry norms. When we compare this ratio to the dividend payout ratio, which
has been significantly increasing we realize that they are not using their debt to
conservative approach with its debt to equity and are mindful about avoiding any
competitors have almost as much debt as they do assets. We can see from
McDonald’s figure that they have significantly more assets then they do debt.
is debt in a positive way. This clearly shows us that, as borrowing for the company
through this analysis we have determined that McDonald’s has had consistently if
not a safe capital structure. We have seen consistency and stability with
McDonald’s capital structure and have also been able to confirm that the company
does not have any unpaid taxes with the IRS, or unpaid wages to its employees.
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