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Is Starbucks's Stock a Buy Ahead of Its Q3 Earnings Report Tomorrow?

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Is Starbucks's Stock a Buy Ahead of Its Q3 Earnings Report Tomorrow? Key Points The company had a fine second quarter, and investors will be hoping for a repeat…
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  • Full-year 2026 comparable sales guidance raised to at least 5% growth (from more than 3% previously), and adjusted EPS guidance raised to $2.25-$2.45 (from $2.15-$2.40 previously)

    60% confidence
  • Analysts collectively expect Starbucks to post just over $9.1 billion in revenue and $0.65 per share in net income for fiscal Q3 2026 — nearly 4% below the prior-year revenue figure but a 30% improvement in EPS year over year

    60% confidence
  • Starbucks attributed its solid second-quarter performance to the Back to Starbucks initiative

    60% confidence
  • Starbucks is a mature business with a huge footprint that has little room to grow, and its stock is priced for hot growth with a forward P/E of almost 35 that profitability gains are unlikely to match; even a beat on Q3 earnings would not change this negative view

    60% confidence

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Starbucks Corporation · stock price23 percent_ytd_change
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Ford Motor Company
Both facts give cash for Ford Motor Company at the same point in time (2025-12-31; FY 2025 year-end and Q4 2025 year-end are the same date). Both are labelled USD, but the values are 23,356,000,000 and 23.356, which cannot both be true in USD. The two numbers agree once the second is read as billions (23.356 bn = 23,356,000,000), so the economic content is consistent and the conflict is a unit/scale error in the Q4 2025 record. The period is not the reason for the conflict: a Q4 and an FY figure at the same year-end date should match.
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