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Starbucks SBUX Return on assets

Return on assets at other companies

McDonald's logo
McDonald'sMCD
14.9%+0.1pp
Chipotle Mexican Grill logo
Chipotle Mexican GrillCMG
16.3%-1.6pp
Keurig Dr Pepper logo
Keurig Dr PepperKDP
2.9%-0.2pp
Restaurant Brands International logo
Restaurant Brands InternationalQSR
5.2%-0.4pp
Casey's General Stores logo
Casey's General StoresCASY
7.7%+0.3pp
PepsiCo logo
PepsiCoPEP
8.2%-1.1pp

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 trailing twelve months.

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 return on assets?
Starbucks (SBUX) reported return on assets of 4.8% in Q1 2026.
How has Starbucks's return on assets changed year-over-year?
Starbucks's return on assets decreased by 53.1% year-over-year, from 10.3% to 4.8%.
What is the long-term trend for Starbucks's return on assets?
Over 4 years (2021 to 2025), Starbucks's return on assets has grown at a 5.2% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 29.3% to 35.9%.
What does return on assets mean?
How much profit the company squeezes out of everything it owns.
How do you interpret return on assets?
Higher means more productive assets. Unlike ROE, it is unaffected by leverage, so a wide ROE-minus-ROA gap flags a heavily levered balance sheet.
How does return on assets compare across companies?
Best compared within an industry — asset intensity varies enormously across sectors. Not meaningful for banks, whose assets are largely financial.