McDonald’s stock (NYSE: MCD), a restaurant chain consisting of more than 40,000 mostly franchised stores, is scheduled to report its fiscal third-quarter results on Thursday, October 27. McDonald’s doesn’t issue short-term sales guidance, but it expects operating profit margin for the full  year 2022 to be in the mid-40s percentage, despite accelerating inflation. Consequently, MCD’s bottom line dropped 46% y-o-y to $1.60, due to charges mentioned above as well as settlement of a tax audit in France and other non-operating expenses.