MCD Earnings Preview: Options Strategies Amid Share Downtrend

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Alex Coffey and Kevin Hincks preview McDonald’s earnings, discuss revenue outlook, share downtrend since February, and example options trades and risks for investors.

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On Schwab Network, Alex Coffey and Kevin Hincks ran McDonald's up the flagpole before its earnings, walking through the revenue cues the Street is watching and sketching example options trades while stressing the usual risks. The company matters because it combines steady, mid-single-digit revenue growth with double-digit net income gains, even as the stock has been drifting off the February highs. That tension, healthy earnings momentum versus short-term price weakness, makes the earnings call a likely magnet for volatility and for traders thinking about using options to hedge or collect income.