NASDAQ:SBUX - Starbucks Stock Price, News, & Analysis

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

Starbucks announced a quarterly dividend on Thursday, November 1st. Investors of record on Thursday, November 15th will be paid a dividend of $0.36 per share on Friday, November 30th. This represents a $1.44 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 2.20%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Wednesday, November 14th. View Starbucks' Dividend History.

Starbucks's stock split on Thursday, April 9th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. The newly issued shares were payable to shareholders after the market closes 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 declared that its board has initiated a share repurchase plan on Thursday, April 26th 2018, which permits the company to repurchase 0 shares, according to EventVestor. This repurchase authorization permits the company to repurchase shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock repurchase plans are often a sign that the company's leadership believes its stock is undervalued.

Starbucks Co. (NASDAQ:SBUX) announced its quarterly earnings results on Thursday, November, 1st. The coffee company reported $0.62 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, beating the Zacks' consensus estimate of $0.60 by $0.02. The coffee company had revenue of $6.30 billion for the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $6.28 billion. Starbucks had a return on equity of 86.33% and a net margin of 18.28%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 10.6% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same period last year, the business posted $0.55 earnings per share. View Starbucks' Earnings History.

Starbucks is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, January 24th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Starbucks.

Starbucks updated its FY19 earnings guidance on Thursday, November, 1st. The company provided earnings per share guidance of $2.61-2.66 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS estimate of $2.63. The company issued revenue guidance of $26-26.45 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $26.16 billion.Starbucks also updated its FY 2019 guidance to $2.61-2.66 EPS.

28 brokerages have issued 12 month price objectives for Starbucks' shares. Their forecasts range from $48.00 to $81.00. On average, they expect Starbucks' stock price to reach $65.5385 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 0.1% 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 2 sell ratings, 11 hold ratings and 15 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Starbucks.

News stories about SBUX stock have trended positive recently, InfoTrie reports. The research group identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of negative five to five, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Starbucks earned a news sentiment score of 2.3 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the coffee company a news buzz of 3.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the near term.

Starbucks saw a drop in short interest in the month of November. As of November 15th, there was short interest totalling 65,134,523 shares, a drop of 19.6% from the October 31st total of 81,015,155 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 18,249,023 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.6 days. Approximately 5.0% of the company's shares are short sold. View Starbucks' Current Options Chain.

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Starbucks' stock is owned by many different of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc. (7.65%), BlackRock Inc. (6.70%), Morgan Stanley (3.66%), Magellan Asset Management Ltd (2.82%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (2.16%) and Polen Capital Management LLC (1.34%). Company insiders that own Starbucks stock include Clifford Burrows, Craig Weatherup, Howard D Schultz, Javier G Teruel, John Culver, Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Joshua Cooper Ramo, Myron E Ullman III, Paul Mutty and Rosalind G Brewer. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Starbucks.

SBUX stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Capital International Investors, Capital Research Global Investors, The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company , American Century Companies Inc., Mitsubishi UFJ Trust & Banking Corp, Janus Henderson Group PLC, TCW Group Inc. and FMR LLC. Company insiders that have sold Starbucks company stock in the last year include Clifford Burrows, Craig Weatherup, Javier G Teruel and Myron E Ullman III. View Insider Buying and Selling for Starbucks.

SBUX stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Polen Capital Management LLC, BlackRock Inc., Magellan Asset Management Ltd, Capital World Investors, Morgan Stanley, Bahl & Gaynor Inc., Standard Life Aberdeen plc and Loomis Sayles & Co. L P. Company insiders that have bought Starbucks stock in the last two years include Jorgen Vig Knudstorp and Rosalind G Brewer. 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, Scottrade, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of SBUX stock can currently be purchased for approximately $65.47.

Starbucks has a market capitalization of $81.22 billion and generates $24.72 billion in revenue each year. The coffee company earns $4.52 billion in net income (profit) each year or $2.42 on an earnings per share basis. Starbucks employs 291,000 workers across the globe.

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]