Starbucks Corporation
At today's price, Starbucks Corporation (SBUX) is priced for today's economics sustained for ~6.0 years. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
- At about $100.61 (as of June 27, 2026) the market pays roughly 33x company-wide operating income, a multiple at the very top of the restaurant peer distribution, well beyond the upper quartile. The price is a demanding bet on the turnaround restoring margins. - Trailing operating margin is depressed near 7.6%, well below Starbucks' historical mid-teens, so the high multiple is measured against turnaround-trough earnings. The most recent quarter showed margin recovering to 9.4%. - The turnaroun
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2,278 institutional managers reported holding SBUX in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 81% of the company; the top 10 hold 49%. 158 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, Capital Group (American Funds), BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 48.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 4% of shares outstanding (5.9 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
SBUX has cut its share count 3.3% over the past five years, spending $6.26B on repurchases. It pays a dividend, and has for 16 years running; the current rate is $2.45 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $7.37B in dividends and $1.55B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at SBUX over the trailing three years: 2024: 1 buy totaling $35k; 2025: 1 buy totaling $995k. 20 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
SBUX's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-08-02 | +0.6% | -10.8% |
| 2023-11-18 | +12.4% | -11.1% |
| 2024-01-31 | -0.8% | -4.7% |
| 2024-05-01 | -15.7% | +2.4% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
SBUX's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-12 (items 5.02); 2026-05-20 (items 8.01); 2026-05-15 (items 2.05); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-04-02 (items 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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