Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) has been a disappointment recently. Same-store sales in the US slowed over the last couple of quarters. The company pushed down its guidance. Founder Howard Schultz kicked out his…
At yesterday’s annual meeting Howard Schultz, founder of Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX), said he would fix the company or die with his boots on. He may wanted to be fitted for an extra…
Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is holding its annual shareholder meeting today (playing right now), and with shares having slid more than 50% from highs it can’t be any shock that the home…
Douglas A. McIntyre The price of wheat has gone up three-fold in ten months. For something that looks like a weed, that is an impressive run. Since a large number of business from McDonald’s (NYSE:…
The staff at most of the Starbucks (NYSE: SBUX) recently went though a few hours for training. The nationwide program was designed to make the people working in the stores do a…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) retrained most of its store workers last week. Howard Schultz, the returned founder and CEO, has replaced a number of the lame-brains in senior management. It would be hard…
Douglas A. McIntyre A big company gets in trouble. The board throws the CEO under a bus and brings back the founder. The stock market figures that the person who built the company is the…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) and Lehman Brothers (NYSE: LEH) do not have much in common.That changed a bit yesterday when word came out that they would both cut workers. It is a demonstration…
According to Reuters, Micorosft (MSFT) will open up some of its software code to rivals. Reuters reports that BP (BP) will try to get billions of more barrels out of Prudhoe Bay.…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is making some changes today in what it hopes will streamline certain aspects of its operations. The press release notes that this will "better focus efforts on enhancing the…
Douglas A. McIntyre No one on Wall St. liked the Starbucks (SBUX) quarterly results and the shares moved down after they were announced. They still sit close to a 52-week low. The company reported revenues…
Douglas A. McIntyre According to Reuters, Amazon’s (AMZN) financial results show that its profit margins were squeezed in the last quarter. Reuters writes that Starbucks (SBUX) will close 100 stores and say 2008 could bring…
Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is seeing shares trade slightly lower in after-hours trading after earnings. The coffee inflating retailer posted earnings of $0.28 EPS on revenues of $2.8 Billion, yet First Call estimates…
Douglas A. McIntyre Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) is set to report earnings today after the close of trading. First Call has estimates pegged at $0.27 EPS and $2.77 billion in revenues. Next quarter’s estimates are…
Douglas A. McIntyre McDonald’s (MCD) was the greatest stock in the US until it wasn’t. Improvement in same-store sales in the US and overseas drove the stock from below $32 in June 2006 to over…
