The McDonalds Formula for Performance; Exclusive Report by Leading Financial Newsletter Profit Confidential

10th February 2012 | 2 Comments

This is the VOA Special English Technology Report, from voaspecialenglish.com | http The Ford Motor Company built several versions of the Edsel from nineteen fifty-eight to nineteen sixty. Ford finished production of the car after just three model years because of weak sales. The Edsel has been described as a "colossal failure" -- that is what the name has even come to mean in well loved language. But the Edsel has also been described as "a car ahead of its time." John Heitmann is a history professor at the University of Dayton in Ohio and vice president of the Society for Automotive Historians. He says: "It was a car that was controversial in styling. Its horseshoe-shaped grill is still remembered today. The Edsel is kind of the example of the car that never caught on."Professor Heitmann says the largest problem was that the Edsel arrived around the same time as a recession. He says Americans were beginning to question their values. "It's a really curious kind of economic episode. It was really quite severe but also rather small. But it was at a time when many Americans were reacting to the dinosaur in the driveway. These very heavy, chrome-laden Buicks and other cars -- the fifty-eight Buick had fifty-eight pounds of chrome on it. The Edsel was also a very heavy, very fuel-inefficient vehicle." Even so, some people say the Edsel's technology more than made up for what it lacked in looks and fuel efficiency. "Shamrock" Shelly Cleaver is the public relations director for the ... Video Rating: 4 / 5

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Mitchell Clark, contributor to Profit Confidential, points out that the stock market was flat over the last 12 months, while McDonalds appreciated 35% not including dividends. Over the last two years, McDonald’s appreciated 60% on the stock market and, over the last five years, the stock went up 141% not including dividends. According to Clark, this proves that you can do just as well owning the right large-cap stocks as you can speculating on the latest high flyers, with a lot less risk.

“It’s kind of odd to reckon that a mature business like burger flipping could be so profitable, but this company has rewarded shareholders tremendously well,” says Clark.

“I’ve always been a fan of investing in large-cap stocks, especially those that pay dividends,” states Clark. Even though he spends most of his time researching smaller companies, he’s seen stock market portfolios with a handful of large-cap stocks make a lot of wealth for people.

“The dividends compensate you for the prevailing rate of inflation and, for the most part, you sleep well at night knowing what you own,” says Clark.

When the stock market collapsed in 2008 and then hit a low in March of 2009, McDonald’s basically traded flat, just below $ 60.00 a share. The stock recently hit an all-time record high of over $ 101.00 per share, with a dividend yield of 2.8% at the time, according to Profit Confidential.

“Not terrible at all if you question me. The stock split seven times since the early 80s and is now due for another split,” notes Clark.

Profit Confidential, which has been published for over a decade now, has been widely recognized as predicting five major economic events over the past 10 years. In 2002, Profit Confidential started advising its readers to buy gold-related investments when gold traded under $ 300 an ounce. In 2006, it “begged” its readers to get out of the housing market... before it plunged.

Profit Confidential was among the first (back in late 2006) to predict that the U.S. economy would be in a recession by late 2007. The daily e-letter correctly predicted the crash in the stock market of 2008 and early 2009. And Profit Confidential turned bullish on stocks in March of 2009 and rode the bear market rally from a Dow Jones Industrial Average of 6,440 on March 9, 2009, to 12,876 on May 2, 2011, a gain of 99%.

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