Investor Feedback To Our Upgrade

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Investor Feedback To Our Upgrade

Restaurants

Starbucks Corporation

TD SECURITIES (USA) LLC COMPANY UPDATE

May 15, 2026

Price: $106.40 (05/14/2026) Investor Feedback To Our Upgrade

Price Target: $120.00

BUY (1)

ESG SCORE: 57/100

Andrew M. Charles, CFA THE TD COWEN INSIGHT

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We have generally received more agreement than pushback to our upgrade following our HQ

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visit. Herein we highlight feedback and include poll results from our webinar briefing investors.

Agnes Lim

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Recent F2Q (March) sales strength & the EPS beat have given bulls added confidence in

Zach Ogden, CFA CEO Brian Niccol and the Back to Starbucks turnaround plan. Bulls agree that the strength

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of the category allows for multiple concepts to win vs conventional wisdom from the soft

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pizza, burger and chicken categories that are more zero sum in nature. This same store sales

Key Data outperformance is anticipated to fuel EPS beats. Bulls agree with our 2028-29 EPS forecasts

Symbol NASDAQ: SBUX of ~$4 & ~$4.50, with our $120 price target derived by applying normalized peak 30x & 5Y

Beta: 1.01 average ~26x, respectively.

52-Week Range: $106.58-$78.46 Da Bears Feedback

Market Cap: $121.3B

Net Debt (MM): $22,691.1 We have received 3 key points of push back from the bears. The first is around the longevity

Cash/Share: $2.38 of same store sales, with the belief that either the low-hanging fruit has been plucked, or that

F2Q's +7% represented multiple events converging (sales transfer, added labor to improve

Dil. Shares Out (MM): 1,143.2

Enterprise Value speed, marketing enhancements, etc.). The biggest point of bear push back is the flow-thru of

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