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• The company has increased common stock dividends and treasury stock

purchases as part of its $5 billion dollar buy back that started in 2000.

XII. Correlation with Current Portfolio

CORRELATION
Stock COEFFICIENT (R)
MCD
C 0.298
COH 0.143
DELL 0.215
EBAY 0.145
ERTS 0.181
FRX 0.155
GD 0.203
GE 0.373
HDI 0.256
KSS 0.223
PEP 0.226
WMT 0.309
XOM 0.265

The correlation coefficient was calculated by obtaining the stock price returns of

MacDonald’s and the other stocks in the portfolio from June 14, 2002-June 14, 2005, a

three-year period. Based on the above table, the security with the highest correlation to

MacDonald’s is General Electric with a value of just 0.373.

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