The informal eating out industry is led by McDonald’s. McDonald’s business model sets the standards for all other members of this pool of investments. The keys to determining value include margins, sales growth, expansion into new stores, and earnings per share. Setting intrinsic value is easy, and patience is the one core value investing principle that leads to financial success with these investments.
Wendy’s – Purchased Another 3,000 Shares Today, October 13, 2025, the Value Investment Fund purchased a second tranche of Wendy’s stock. The restaurant’s pool acquired another 3,000 shares at $8.75. The total investment is $27,000, including the 25-cent per share transaction fee. The Fund now owns 6,000 shares with a total cost basis of $57,750. […]
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Shake Shack – Market Valuation Shake Shack’s Updated Book, Intrinsic, Buy, and Sell Values – August 2025 Shake Shack’s current market price is greater than $100. During the last year, Shake Shack’s stock price peaked at $141 per share. P.T. Barnum is credited with the famous quote: “There is no better friend than a frank,
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Wendy’s – Bought 3,000 Shares Wendy’s is experiencing a strong negative market price adjustment. This is driven by a lack of true growth and financial turmoil. In November of 2024, a mere nine months ago, Wendy’s stock price was just above $20 per share. During this past week, the market price dropped to less than
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Wendy’s – Intrinsic Value, Buy, and Sell Price August 1, 2025 Wendy’s (a member of the fast-food restaurants pool) market price has dropped from $20 per share in November 2024 to less than $10 on July 31, 2025. What is going on to halve the market value in eight months? This article updates the respective
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Domino’s Pizza is the third largest publicly traded fast-food chain in the world. With over 18,800 locations worldwide, the business model is three pronged with franchising as the primary profit center.
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President, Chief Executive Officer and Director of McDonald’s Inc. said it best in the earnings call in late January 2022, we are “… witnessing the beginning of the next great chapter at McDonald’s, …”. He continued with “2021 was a record-setting year for McDonald’s on many dimensions, …” Simply put, McDonald’s had the best financial performance ever in its history during 2021. It just didn’t marginally exceed records, McDonald’s dramatically surpassed all financial records in its entire history. McDonald’s was already the standard bearer in the informal-eating-out industry; it took this standard to a whole new level. When a company has net profits of more than 20%, it is labeled a ‘darling’; over 25%, it is just unheard of financial results; in 2021, McDonald’s net profit was greater than 32%. This sets such a high standard for fast-food restaurants; it is unlikely to be matched by others – EVER.
When a company performs to this level, intrinsic value soars. Intrinsic value is built on a company’s inherent worth. The more stable and reliable a company, the greater the intrinsic value for that company. The reason is simple, the discount rate used with evaluating earnings improves because management demonstrates that it can indeed perform and in this case, perform at exceptional levels.
What is even more fascinating is this:
If you look at McDonald’s balance sheet, total assets on 12/31/21 are $53.8 Billion; total liabilities are $58.4 Billion. McDonald’s has a NEGATIVE EQUITY POSITION OF $4.6 BILLION. You read that correctly. In simple layman’s terminology, this is called ‘Bankrupt’. Every business textbook used in college defines bankruptcy as liabilities exceeding assets. This makes McDonald’s performance just that more impressive. They are so solid, even creditors ignore this situation and will still loan money to McDonald’s. During 2021, McDonald’s was able to acquire long-term loans totaling $1.154 Billion. To further validate the incredible worthiness of McDonald’s, from page 57 of their filed SEC Form 10-K (annual report), “There are no provisions in the Company’s debt obligations that would accelerate repayment of debt as a result of a change in credit ratings or a material adverse change in the Company’s business.” You can only count on one hand the number of companies that have this level of credit.
McDonald’s is financially rock solid.
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What would you pay for a stock that has multiple negative attributes? Starbucks intrinsic value is less than 40% of market value.
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Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc.’s current (01/24/22) market price is around $1,400 per share, trading as high as $1,930 late last summer (summer of 2021).
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Wendy’s is the second largest publicly traded informal eating-out (fast-food) hamburger chain. Its current market capitalization places it around $5 Billion.
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One of the members of the informal eating out industry, fast-food restaurants, is Shake Shack. The company is relatively young by any business standard opening its first restaurant back in 2001 and going public in 2014.
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