Investors Getting Picky When It Comes To Buying Starbucks Corp (SBUX)

Starbucks Corp (NASDAQ:SBUX) does about 11.59M shares in volume on a normal day but saw 8750802 shares change hands in the recent trading day. The company now has a market cap of 101.87B USD. Its current market price is $89.64, marking an increase of 3.05% compared to the previous close of $86.99. The 52 week high reached by this stock is $117.46 whilst the lowest price level in 52 weeks is $71.55. The script in recent trading has seen the stock touch a high of $106 and a low of $83.

32 analysts observing the Starbucks Corp (SBUX) stock have set the 12-month price targets for the company’s shares at between $83 and $106. The consensus objective for the share price is $89.96, suggesting that the stock has a potential upside of 0.36% over the period. The median price target is 7.11% away from the current levels at $96.5.

FactSet Research has provided data showing that 32 brokerages have issued ratings for the stock. 2 analysts have rated it as a sell, while 0 advise that it is a overweight. 20 analysts have rated it as a buy and 10 have advised that investors hold their positions. The consensus recommendation rating is Buy and Wall Street’s advice is for investors to Moderate Buy the stock.

The company shares received a number of brokerage firm price updates over the past month, with the latest being on May 29, 2025 when TD Cowen downgraded the stock to “Hold” and issued a price target of $90. Goldman also downgraded the stock to “Neutral” from Buy on April 30, 2025 at a price target of $85. Wells Fargo reiterated its price target at $125-$100.

The current price level is 4.76%, 4.68%, and -6.34% away from its SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200 respectively, with the SBUX price moving above the 50-day SMA on current market day. Starbucks Corp (SBUX) stock is up 6.78% over the week and 8.38% over the past month. Its price is -1.76% year-to-date and 8.27% over the past year.

Its 12-month price target is $96.5. To reach the target analysts have set, the stock logically needs to grow 0.36 percent from here. Of course, the average price target is just what the average analysts believe a stock will be worth in the next 52 weeks, and is only one metric. There are analysts with lower targets than the average, including one bearish Wall Street research firm advocating investors to wait for the price to pull back to $83, given the recent momentum. And then, on the bullish side of things, one analyst is expecting the stock to peak at $106.

Outstanding shares total 1.14B with insiders holding 0.16% of the shares and institutional holders owning 84.75% of the company’s common stock. The company has a return on investment of 21.34%. The price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) amounts to 32.58 while the forward price to earnings ratio is 30.10. The beta has a value of 0.99. Price to sales ratio is 2.80.

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