who owns mcdonalds

McDonald's is owned by a wide range of shareholders as it is a publicly traded company. The largest shareholders are institutional investors. The biggest single shareholder is The Vanguard Group, Inc., holding about 9.72% to 9.85% of the company. Other significant shareholders include BlackRock, holding around 7.01% to 7.35%, State Street Corporation with about 4.83%, JP Morgan Chase owning about 3.68% to 5.25%, and Geode Capital Management with around 2.22% to 2.31% of shares. Individual ownership is very small compared to institutional holdings. Operational control lies with McDonald's Corporation leadership, such as CEO Christopher J. Kempczinski, who also holds shares in the company. The company is primarily structured as a franchise model where McDonald's corporate owns the land and buildings of most locations and leases them to franchisees who run the restaurants. This ownership model is a significant source of McDonald's corporate revenue.