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. Investors of record on Wednesday, November 13th will be paid a dividend of $0.41 per share on Friday, November 29th. This represents a $1.64 dividend on an annualized basis and a yield of 1.75%. The ex-dividend date of this dividend is Tuesday, November 12th. This is a positive change from Starbucks's previous quarterly dividend of $0.36. View Starbucks' Dividend History.

Shares of Starbucks split before market open on Thursday, April 9th 2015. The 2-1 split was announced on Wednesday, March 18th 2015. The newly created shares were distributed 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 initiated a share buyback program on Thursday, April 26th 2018, which permits the company to buyback 0 shares, according to EventVestor. This buyback authorization permits the company to buy shares of its stock through open market purchases. Stock buyback programs are often an indication that the company's leadership believes its shares are undervalued.

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

Starbucks is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, January 28th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Starbucks.

Starbucks will be holding an earnings conference call on Tuesday, January 28th at 12:00 AM Eastern. Interested parties can register for or listen to the call using this link or dial in at Not Available.

Starbucks updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Wednesday, October, 30th. The company provided earnings per share (EPS) guidance of $3.00-3.05 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus EPS 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 analysts have issued 1 year price targets for Starbucks' shares. Their forecasts range from $72.00 to $110.00. On average, they expect Starbucks' stock price to reach $92.32 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 1.4%. 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 15 hold ratings and 13 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Hold." View Analyst Ratings for Starbucks.

Press coverage about SBUX stock has trended very negative recently, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies negative and positive press coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Starbucks earned a news impact score of -3.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned news coverage about the coffee company a news buzz of 10.0 out of 10, meaning that recent press coverage is extremely likely to have an impact on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Starbucks.

Starbucks saw a decrease in short interest in the month of December. As of December 31st, there was short interest totalling 15,360,000 shares, a decrease of 5.1% from the December 15th total of 16,190,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 6,430,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.4 days. Currently, 1.4% of the shares of the company 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), Papa John's Int'l (PZZA), Jack in the Box (JACK), Bloomin' Brands (BLMN), Cheesecake Factory (CAKE), 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), Home Depot (HD), Bank of America (BAC), Intel (INTC), Micron Technology (MU) and Visa (V).

Starbucks' stock is owned by a variety of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Boston Trust Walden Corp (0.07%), Riverbridge Partners LLC (0.07%), Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC (0.06%), Nisa Investment Advisors LLC (0.04%), Calamos Advisors LLC (0.03%) and Hexavest Inc. (0.03%). 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 Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft FI, Meag Munich Ergo Kapitalanlagegesellschaft MBH, State of Alaska Department of Revenue, Tocqueville Asset Management L.P., DNB Asset Management AS, Nisa Investment Advisors LLC and Cullinan Associates Inc.. 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 Johanson Financial Advisors Inc., Gradient Investments LLC, Artemis Investment Management LLP, Eidelman Virant Capital, Douglass Winthrop Advisors LLC, Farmers Trust Co., GPM Growth Investors Inc. and Altman Advisors Inc.. 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 $93.62.

Starbucks has a market capitalization of $110.57 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]