If You Had Invested $100 in McDonald's IPO, Here's How Much Money You'd Have Now

The stock market has returned a respectable 2,700% since 1965, the year that McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) filed its initial public offering, or IPO. Shareholders lucky enough to get in early on that fantastic business have been rewarded for that prescience and that long-term holding period. In fact, even a relatively small investment in the fast-food giant could have gone a long way to funding a comfortable retirement five decades later. 

But just how much would an early IPO investment in Mickey D's be worth today? Let's take a look.

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