What To Expect From Starbucks’s (SBUX) Q3 Earnings

Coffeehouse chain Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) will be announcing earnings results this Wednesday after market close. Here’s what you need to know.

Starbucks beat analysts’ revenue expectations by 1.7% last quarter, reporting revenues of $9.46 billion, up 3.8% year on year. It was a slower quarter for the company, with a significant miss of analysts’ EBITDA estimates and a significant miss of analysts’ EPS estimates.

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This quarter, analysts are expecting Starbucks’s revenue to grow 2.9% year on year to $9.33 billion, a reversal from the 3.2% decrease it recorded in the same quarter last year. Adjusted earnings are expected to come in at $0.55 per share.Starbucks Total Revenue

Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business to stay the course heading into earnings. Starbucks has missed Wall Street’s revenue estimates five times over the last two years.

Looking at Starbucks’s peers in the restaurants segment, some have already reported their Q3 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Domino's delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 6.2%, beating analysts’ expectations by 0.9%, and Darden reported revenues up 10.4%, in line with consensus estimates. Domino's traded up 2.2% following the results while Darden was down 11.6%.

Read our full analysis of Domino’s results here and Darden’s results here.

Investors in the restaurants segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Starbucks is up 2.1% during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $96.03 (compared to the current share price of $87.40).

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