MCD has outperformed the market forever.

Going through portfolio visualizer and mcd has outperformed in almost every time frame I can find.

Even recently, the last 2, 3 and 5 years MCD has outperformed vti.

Even over the lost decade after 2000 mcd had a cagr of 13.8% vs. Vti at about 2.6%.

Yes, mcd is now occupying 5% of my portfolio!

And I had PEP, but got rid of it in favor of MCD as mcd appears to even outperform PEP