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Source: www.theoptionsinsiders.com.com --- 57 days ago
Options Update for Starbucks (SBUX) and UnitedHealth (UNH) ... Source: money.canoe.ca --- 37 days ago
SEATTLE, Wash. - Despite pleas from loyal coffee drinkers, Starbucks Corp. said it is moving forward with its plans to close 600 of its stores. ... Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 57 days ago
Filed under: Before the bell , Launches , Competitive strategy , Starbucks (SBUX) Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ) recently began very wide distribution of Pike Place Roast. It tastes more like the coffee most people brew at home. It is inexpensive. It has drawn new customers to the coffee retailer. And some people think it tastes like sewage. According to The Wall Street Journal, " the new strategy, which played down the company's more-established robust roasts, has touched off a debate about what customers think Starbucks should stand for: bold coffee for connoisseurs or a tamer brew for the masses?" Starbucks founder Howard Schultz has been concerned about bringing the company back to it roots, the look and intimate feel of the company's early stores, but the new drink seems to run counter to that. The Pikes Place product says much about what is wrong with Starbucks. Its appeal has been the originality of its products, but it needs coffee that will help its sales, which have been weak, grow again. Starbucks seems to be of two minds, which is never good for a company working on turning itself around. With the economy in the dumps, what Starbucks does may not matter for now. Traffic is being hurt by consumer spending. The shares in the company are way down. Pike Place is just another cup of coffee. Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...
Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 55 days ago
Filed under: Forecasts , Management , Starbucks (SBUX) In a brilliant article in The New York Times, the paper points out that of all the mistakes that Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) made in its expansion, picking real estate locations may have been the worst. Much of the analysis for the piece came from talking to real estate brokers. The paper writes , "In some cases, brokers say, Starbucks misjudged the risks of putting stores close to each other, leading to the decline in same-store sales." It is astonishing that Starbucks would make such basic errors and speaks to what happened to management during the period when founder Howard Schultz was absent from the CEO job. The team that replaced him said it believed the company would eventually have 40,000 store worldwide. It clearly cut corners in terms of planning to get there. The real trouble with the real estate location decisions is that it may take a very long time to fix. Closing stores may be easy, but finding better spots, negotiated for the space, and building out new stores will be time consuming and, perhaps, expensive. Schultz and his minions are paying for rampant growth, and the poor souls who worked for him are paying more. Almost 12,000 will lose their jobs. Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com. Read | Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...
Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 41 days ago
Filed under: Earnings reports , Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Starbucks (SBUX) , Ford Motor (F) , General Motors (GM) , Nokia Corp. (NOK) , Advanced Micro Dev (AMD) , Yum Brands (YUM) , United Technologies (UTX) , Wells Fargo (WFC) Before the bell: Futures higher ahead of housing data and a wave of earnings; JPM, KO already reported Nokia Corp. (NYSE: NOK ) shares are up over 7.4% in premarket trading after the world's largest maker of handsets said second-quarter profit fell 61% to $1.75 billion, or 46 cents per share, while sales rose 4% to $20.87 billion. Excluding items, Nokia's profit rose 8% to $2.18 billion. Nokia beat estimates of earnings of 56 cents per share on $20.05 billion in revenue, according to Thomson Financial. The mobile phone maker slightly raised its forecast for the mobile phone industry, saying volume would grow 10% or more in 2008. Continental Airlines (NYSE: CAL ) are up again this morning after climbing 38% Wednesday with the rest of the airline stocks. Continental swung to a second-quarter loss , hurt by record high fuel prices and weakening economic conditions. Still the losses of $3 million, or 3 cents per share, or excluding one-time items totaled $25 million, or 25 cents per share, beat expectations of a loss of 49 cents per share. Yum Brands (NYSE: YUM ) shares are down 4.3% in premarket trading after it reported a second-quarter profit of $224 million, or 45 ce ... Source: www.fibtimer.com --- 26 days ago
Shares of Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ: SBUX) declined into mid-July, reaching lows that equal the 78.6% retracement of all gains since Starbuck's 2001 bear market lows. This may be a tradable bottom for this beleaguered stock. ... Source: www.bloggingstocks.com --- 58 days ago
Filed under: Before the bell , Launches , Competitive strategy , Starbucks (SBUX) S tarbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX ) recently began very wide distribution of Pike Place Roast. It tastes more like the coffee most people brew at home. It is inexpensive. It has drawn new customers to the coffee retailer. And, some people think it tastes like sewage. According to The Wall Street Journal. " the new strategy, which played down the company's more-established robust roasts, has touched off a debate about what customers think Starbucks should stand for: bold coffee for connoisseurs or a tamer brew for the masses?" Starbucks founder Howard Schultz has been concerned about bringing the company back to it roots, the look and intimate feel of the company's early stores, but the new drink seems to run counter to that. The Pikes Place product says much about what is wrong with Starbucks. Its appeal has been the originality of its products, but it needs coffee that will help its sales, which have been weak, grow again. Starbucks seems to be of two minds, which is never good for a company working on turning itself around. With the economy in the dumps, what Starbucks does may not matter for now. Traffic is being hurt by consumer spending. The shares in the company are way down. Pike Place is just another cup of coffee. Douglas A. McIntyre is an editor at 247wallst.com. Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments ...
Source: www.247wallst.com --- 47 days ago
Here is the list of stores that Starbucks (SBUX) will close in July 2008. Starbucks plans to close a total of 600 stores and lay-off 12,000 full-time and part-time employees in an effort to save money now that its US same-store sales are slowing considerably. Based on information obtained by 24/7 Wall St., Michigan, one of the hardest hit states in the economic downturn, will lose 20% of its Starbucks stores. Douglas A. McIntyre ... Source: www.247wallst.com --- 55 days ago
Twelve thousand souls are losing their jobs at Starbucks (SBUX), mostly because Howard Schultz let incompetents run his empire while he was occupied elsewhere. It will always be open to debate whether things would have been different if he had stayed on as CEO, instead of returning recently when things at the coffee company were getting bad. In a superb article in The New York Times, the paper analyzes what may have been the worst decision by Starbucks executives. In the surge of rapid expansion in the US, they put many of their stores in the wrong places. According to... ... Source: www.247wallst.com --- 30 days ago
Australia, formerly the world's largest penal colony, will loss three-quarters of its Starbucks (SBUX) stores this week. That totals 61 locations. Starbucks will only keep its stores in Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney open. Right where most of the competition is. The UK or Germany may be next. Panic has set in at SBUX headquarters with nothing to arrest it. Douglas A. McIntyre ...
Source: www.streetinsider.com --- 26 days ago
Visit StreetInsider.com at http://www.streetinsider.com/Insiders+Blog/Cramer+Says+Starbucks+%28SBUX%29+Will+Be+Substantially+Higher+In+Near+Future/3870259.html for the full story. ... Source: www.247wallst.com --- 44 days ago
A venti cappuccino costs $4.85 at a New York City Starbucks (SBUX). There may be some tax on that. Starbucks trades at $13.57, so it still has a value well above the cost of the coffee mix. But, there are a number of companies where one share of the stock won't get an investor the drink. First on the list is Freddie Mac (FRE). It trades at $4.68. In the financial category, Washington Mutual (WM) at $3.44 is not even in the ball park. Neither is E*Trade (ETFC) at $2.33. In the tech and consumer electronics area, bandwidth infrastructure giant... ...
Source: www.247wallst.com --- 58 days ago
Starbucks (SBUX) hoped one of the ingredients of getting turned around was its new Pike Place Roast coffee. The java chain brought the new product to market... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]] ... Find more results for SBUX on RSSMicro.com |
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Filed under: Before the bell , Earnings reports , Analyst reports , Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Apple Inc (AAPL) , Starbucks (SBUX) , Market matters , Viacom (VIA) , Sony Corp ADR (SNE) , Merrill Lynch (MER) , Colgate-Palmolive (CL) , Coach Inc (COH) , Research in Motion (RIMM) , BP p.l.c. ADS (BP) , Alcatel-LucentADS (ALU) , U.S. Steel (X) , Amgen Inc (AMGN) , Electronic Arts (ERTS) , Valero Energy (VLO) , Economic data , Northrop Grumman (NOC) After a day that saw U.S. equity markets decline in the neighborhood of 2%, U.S. stock futures earlier this morning pointed to a rough start Tuesday as well. News late Monday the Merrill Lynch said it's selling a big slice of its asset-backed securities and $8.5 billion in stock, renewed concerns over the financial sector health. But futures have started creeping upward, ahead of the latest readings on house prices with the Case-Shiller home price index for May and Conference Board reading of consumer confidence for July. Meanwhile, we're still in the middle of earnings season and today Colgate Palmolive (NYSE: CL ) - Colgate-Palmolive 2Q profit rises 19% , BP (NYSE: BP ) - BP's Second-Quarter Profit Rises on Record Oil Prices - shares are over 2% higher in premarket trading Coach (NYSE: COH ) - Weaker dollar helps Coach 4th-quarter results Northrop Grumman (NYSE: NOC ) , Viacom (NYSE: VIA ) , Valero Energy Corp. (NYSE: VLO ) , United States Steel Corp. (NYSE: X ) Electronic Arts (NASDAQ ...
Filed under: Analyst upgrades and downgrades , Starbucks (SBUX) , Exxon Mobil (XOM) , Under Armour'A' (UA) , TXU Corp (TXU) MOST NOTEWORTHY: Wynn Resorts, Exxon, Hess, Starbucks and Tyson Foods were today's noteworthy upgrades. Jefferies upgraded Wynn (NYSE: WYNN ) to Buy from Hold on valuation, as they believe the recent 25% drop in the stock creates a buying opportunity. UBS upgraded Exxon (NYSE: XOM ) and Hess (NYSE: HES ) to Buy from Neutral due to an increase in the firm's oil price forecast. Friedman Billings upgraded Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) to Outperform from Market Perform because they believe shareholder activism will influence the company in the wake of its downturn. Tyson Food s (NYSE: TSN ) was upgraded to Outperform from Market Perform by BMO Capital because the firm thinks the company's pork business will strengthen in 2008... OTHER UPGRADES: Under Armour (NYSE: UA) was upgraded to Buy from Neutral by UBS. Polaris Industries (NYSE: PII) was upgraded to Neutral from Sell by Bank of America. Roth upgraded Progressive Gaming (NASDAQ: PGIC ) to Buy from Hold. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments ...
Until recently, Las Vegas was one of the fastest growing cities in the US, and Starbucks (SBUX) one of the fastest growing food chains. Now their decline coincides as well. Las Vegas had no Starbucks shops before 1995. It now has more than 150. It also now has the highest number of SBUX store closings with 16, about 10% of its total. By contrast, Los Angeles is losing only 2 of roughly 56 Starbucks and New York will lose 10 of over 200 cafes. As Starbucks battens down the hatches, Vegas is suffering, too ( Bloomberg ): Las Vegas hotel occupancy fell 2 percent in the five months through May from a year ago. In Clark County, where Las Vegas is located, gambling revenue dropped 16 percent in May, its fifth straight monthly decline, and was down 6.4 percent for the year said July 10. Las Vegas home prices peaked in August 2006 and have fallen 29 percent since , according to the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Index. Nevada unemployment, lower than the nation's for 60 straight months starting in April 2002, has been higher than the rest of the country's since May 2007. The state's jobless rate was 6.4 percent in June, compared with 5.5 percent in the U.S. So the latte indicator has spoken, and its not good. What does this mean for the battered casino stocks? MGM Mirage (MGM) has already dropped 65% this year, Las Vegas Sands (LVS) has tumbled 57% and Wynn Resorts (WYNN) is off 12%. So maybe the delayed indicator of a Starbucks pullback is ...