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Starbucks SBUX EV / sales

EV / sales at other companies

McDonald's logo
McDonald'sMCD
10×-0.7×
Chipotle Mexican Grill logo
Chipotle Mexican GrillCMG
3.8×-2.4×
Keurig Dr Pepper logo
Keurig Dr PepperKDP
2.5×-1.4×
Restaurant Brands International logo
Restaurant Brands InternationalQSR
4.2×0.0×
Casey's General Stores logo
Casey's General StoresCASY
1.5×+0.3×
PepsiCo logo
PepsiCoPEP
2.7×0.0×

Other financials

Income statement

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Revenue$9.5B+8.8%
Operating income$828.1M+37.8%
Net income$510.9M+33.0%
EPS (diluted)$0.45+32.4%

Balance sheet

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Cash & equivalents$1.5B-42.7%
Total debt$24.4B-6.2%
Total equity-$8.5B-11.1%
Total assets$30.6B-3.4%

Cash flow

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Operating cash flow$364.5M+24.8%
CapEx$272.7M-53.7%
Free cash flow$91.8M

Valuation

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Market cap$113.76B-8.4%
Enterprise value$136.62B-7.3%
P/E76.1×+36.4×
P/S-0.5×

Profitability

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Gross margin72.3%
Operating margin7.6%-4.9pp
Net margin3.9%-4.7pp

Returns & leverage

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Return on equity136.5%
Debt / equity7.8×
Current ratio0.9×+0.3×

Where this comes from

Calculated from Starbucks’s reported figures.

Based on the most recent quarter.

The official record: Starbucks’s 10-Q, filed April 28, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →

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Questions, answered.

What is Starbucks's EV / sales?
Starbucks (SBUX) reported EV / sales of 3.2× in Q1 2026.
How has Starbucks's EV / sales changed year-over-year?
Starbucks's EV / sales decreased by 12.4% year-over-year, from 3.7× to 3.2×.
What is the long-term trend for Starbucks's EV / sales?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Starbucks's EV / sales has grown at a -11.8% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 22.9× to 13.9×.
What does EV / sales mean?
What the whole business costs relative to its annual sales.
How do you interpret EV / sales?
A fallback valuation gauge for pre-profit or cyclical firms. Like P/S, only comparable across similar-margin businesses, but it accounts for debt and cash unlike P/S.
How does EV / sales compare across companies?
Compare within a margin cohort; the debt-and-cash adjustment makes it cleaner than P/S for leveraged firms.