Best Buy: Coca-Cola, McDonald's, or Verizon?

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO), McDonald's (NYSE: MCD), and Verizon (NYSE: VZ) each reported lower revenue through the first nine months of 2017. Yet investors have had dramatically different responses to recent operating trends for these companies. McDonald's stock is outpacing the broader market's by a wide margin, Coke is underperforming, and Verizon is deep in negative territory with a 15% loss.

Below, we'll stack these Dow giants against each other to see which might make the better buy for investors today.

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Source: Fool.com