NASDAQ:SBUX - Starbucks Stock Price, Forecast & News

Starbucks trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "SBUX."

Starbucks announced a quarterly dividend on Wednesday, October 30th. Stockholders of record on Wednesday, November 13th will be given a dividend of $0.41 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a dividend yield of 1.90%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 12th. This is an increase from Starbucks's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36. View Starbucks' Dividend History.

Shares of Starbucks split on the morning of Thursday, April 9th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. The newly minted shares were issued to shareholders after the closing bell on Wednesday, April 8th 2015. An investor that had 100 shares of Starbucks stock prior to the split would have 200 shares after the split.

Starbucks announced that its Board of Directors has approved a stock repurchase program on Thursday, April 26th 2018, which permits the company to buyback 0 outstanding shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to purchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Shares buyback programs are often an indication that the company's board of directors believes its stock is undervalued.

Starbucks Co. (NASDAQ:SBUX) posted its quarterly earnings data on Wednesday, October, 30th. The coffee company reported $0.70 earnings per share for the quarter, hitting analysts' consensus estimates of $0.70. The coffee company earned $6.75 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.68 billion. Starbucks had a negative return on equity of 75.45% and a net margin of 13.58%. The company's revenue was up 7.0% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period in the prior year, the firm earned $0.62 earnings per share. View Starbucks' Earnings History.

Starbucks is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 23rd 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Starbucks.

Starbucks issued an update on its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 30th. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $3.00-3.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus estimate of $3.08. The company issued revenue guidance of $2.81-2.86 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $28.44 billion.

28 equities research analysts have issued 1-year price targets for Starbucks' shares. Their forecasts range from $72.00 to $110.00. On average, they anticipate Starbucks' share price to reach $90.24 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 4.5% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Starbucks.

28 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Starbucks in the last year. There are currently 17 hold ratings and 11 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Starbucks.

News headlines about SBUX stock have been trending somewhat negative this week, InfoTrie Sentiment reports. The research firm rates the sentiment of press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Starbucks earned a daily sentiment score of -1.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the coffee company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, indicating that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near future. View News Stories for Starbucks.

Starbucks saw a decline in short interest during the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 16,740,000 shares, a decline of 7.2% from the October 31st total of 18,030,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,470,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is currently 2.6 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Starbucks' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Starbucks include Mcdonald's (MCD), Yum! Brands (YUM), Chipotle Mexican Grill (CMG), Darden Restaurants (DRI), Domino's Pizza (DPZ), Dunkin Brands Group (DNKN), Wendys (WEN), Texas Roadhouse (TXRH), Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (CBRL), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), Papa John's Int'l (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Brinker International (EAT) and Dine Brands Global (DIN).

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Starbucks investors own include Walt Disney (DIS), NVIDIA (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), Alibaba Group (BABA), Cisco Systems (CSCO), Bank of America (BAC), Home Depot (HD), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU) and Visa (V).

Starbucks' stock is owned by a number of of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include State Street Corp (4.43%), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.85%), Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Holdings Inc. (0.40%), Parametric Portfolio Associates LLC (0.32%), California Public Employees Retirement System (0.31%) and Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. (0.27%). Company insiders that own Starbucks stock include Clifford Burrows, Craig Weatherup, Javier G Teruel, Jill Walker, John Culver, Kevin R Johnson, Lucy Lee Helm, Myron E Ullman III, Rosalind G Brewer and Vivek C Varma. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Starbucks.

SBUX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Parnassus Investments CA, Man Group plc, Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, First Trust Advisors LP, State Street Corp, Teacher Retirement System of Texas, Donaldson Capital Management LLC and AMF Pensionsforsakring AB. Company insiders that have sold Starbucks company stock in the last year include Clifford Burrows, Javier G Teruel, Jill Walker, John Culver, Kevin R Johnson, Lucy Lee Helm, Myron E Ullman III and Vivek C Varma. View Insider Buying and Selling for Starbucks.

SBUX stock was bought by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including State of New Jersey Common Pension Fund D, Banco Santander S.A., Point72 Asset Management L.P., Squarepoint Ops LLC, California Public Employees Retirement System, Voloridge Investment Management LLC, Assenagon Asset Management S.A. and Bartlett & Co. LLC. View Insider Buying and Selling for Starbucks.

Shares of SBUX can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SBUX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $86.32.

Starbucks has a market capitalization of $101.94 billion and generates $26.51 billion in revenue each year. The coffee company earns $3.60 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.83 on an earnings per share basis. Starbucks employs 346,000 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Starbucks.

The official website for Starbucks is http://www.starbucks.com/.

Starbucks' mailing address is 2401 UTAH AVENUE SOUTH, SEATTLE WA, 98134. The coffee company can be reached via phone at 206-447-1575 or via email at [email protected]