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Starbucks SBUX Price / sales

Price / sales at other companies

McDonald's logo
McDonald'sMCD
8.1×-0.6×
Chipotle Mexican Grill logo
Chipotle Mexican GrillCMG
3.4×-2.5×
Keurig Dr Pepper logo
Keurig Dr PepperKDP
2.1×-0.9×
Restaurant Brands International logo
Restaurant Brands InternationalQSR
2.7×+0.2×
Casey's General Stores logo
Casey's General StoresCASY
1.3×+0.3×
PepsiCo logo
PepsiCoPEP
2.2×0.0×

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×

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 price / sales?
Starbucks (SBUX) reported price / sales of 2.7× in Q1 2026.
How has Starbucks's price / sales changed year-over-year?
Starbucks's price / sales decreased by 13.5% year-over-year, from 3.1× to 2.7×.
What is the long-term trend for Starbucks's price / sales?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Starbucks's price / sales has grown at a -13.3% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 20.1× to 11.3×.
What does price / sales mean?
How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual sales.
How do you interpret price / sales?
Useful when earnings are negative or volatile (e.g. early-stage or cyclical firms). Only comparable across companies with similar margins — a sales dollar is worth more at a high-margin business.
How does price / sales compare across companies?
Best compared within a margin cohort; a software P/S and a retailer P/S are not directly comparable.