This has been an interesting project as I had read very few blogs and had never even considered blogging myself. However, I'v enjoyed it (for the most part) and have learned several things along the way. I hope that you have learned something yourself over the past 15 weeks.
If you remember from my first blog, I chose McDonald's because I had worked there through the summers of my undergrad days (over 16 years ago). I enjoyed my summers at McDonald's and think I would enjoy working for the McDonald's Corporation now. However, I say that as I am envisioning myself working in the corporate office, not in the restaurant itself as I do not think I would handle customer complaints as well as I used to. It does however, appear to be a good company to work for, with good benefits and promotion opportunities, and it has definitely earned good profits of late. For instance, if you had invested $1,000 in MCD stock on 9/1/10 you would have purchased 13 shares of stock as the 9/1 stock price was $74.54 per share. As of today your stock would be worth $1,031.94 as MCD closed today at $79.38.
http://www.google.com/finance?q=mcd
This gives you a net increase of $31.94 or a 3.194% return. I would not be very happy with this return on investment as I could earn that in CDs. However, MCD has paid high dividends to its' investors over the year and are expected to do so again at the end of 2010, so for a large stakeholder it will pay to own MCD stock.
Thanks for listening this semester. I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. God Bless and good luck with your future studies.
Tammy I have really enjoyed following your blog. It has been interesting, so has everyone elses. This has been a great learning experience. I also had never blogged. You have Happy Holidays also.
ReplyDeleteTammy, you gave credit to our company...lol. I was waiting for something from you to make McD look bad but you did great!!! I loved working for them too and I agree, I would be better in corporate offices now instead of on the frontlines. Enjoyed reading about some things I had to relearn. Good luck and Merry Christmas!!!
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