Starbucks Earning Bucks (SBUX)

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Coffee retail giant Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) has just reported earnings of $0.24 non-GAAP EPS and $2.4 billion in revenues.  Thomson Reuters had estimates at $0.19 EPS and $2.38 billion in revenues.  Unfortunately, same store sales were down by 5%.

The company’s margin was 8.5% and it is on target to trim out $500 million in operating costs this year.   Guidance looks fairly solid at $0.74 to $0.75 non-GAAP EPS.  The comparable estimates are $0.70 EPS.  It is also introducing earnings guidance of 13% to 18% growth for 2010.

This looks like one of those guidance and reports where it is not exactly blowing the doors off the hinges, but it also looks like the company is performing better than many have been expecting.

Shares closed down 1.5% at $14.69 in regular trading and the 52-week trading range is $7.06 to $17.18.  The after-hours indications have Starbucks trading up around $15.80.

JON C. OGG
JULY 21, 2009

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Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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