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Investment Overview for Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX)
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Below are key drivers of Starbucks' value that present opportunities for upside or downside to the current Trefis price estimate for Starbucks:
Company Owned Stores
- Company Operated Stores EBITDA Margin :The margins improved to 18.7% in 2010 from 15.6% in 2009 due to restructuring and store closures. However, in 2011, due to high coffee prices, the margins dropped to 17.5%. In 2012, they remained relatively stable. For 2013 and thereafter, we expect the margins to stabilize to around 17.7%. However, if commodity prices (especially arabica coffee) continue to test new highs, we could see the margins getting squeezed once again. Passing on the costs to customers will decrease the number of daily customers visiting the restaurant. Should margins fall to 15.0%, there could be a 10% downside to the Trefis price estimate. At the same time, if the margins continue on their growth trajectory and improve to 19% by the end of the Trefis forecast period, we could see an upside of 10% to the estimated price.
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Starbucks is the world’s leading roaster and retailer of specialty coffee. Through its global network of owned and franchised coffee retail outlets, Starbucks offers a wide range of products like high-quality whole bean coffees, freshly brewed coffees, Italian-style espresso beverages, cold blended beverages, food items like sandwiches, premium teas and coffee making equipment.
Starbucks' own stores are located near offices and residential areas and are larger in size, compared to its licensed stores that are much smaller and mostly located at airports and supermarkets.
Starbucks also sells its packaged coffee and tea through retail channels such as grocery stores, warehouse clubs, convenience stores and US food service accounts.
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The Company Operated Stores division is more valuable than the Franchise Stores division for Starbucks because of the following two reasons:
Company operated stores generate more revenues than franchised stores
Starbucks makes money through its company-owned stores as well as through franchise fees and royalties from franchised stores. Starbucks earns higher profit margins from franchised stores compared to company-owned stores because there are no operational and employee costs involved with franchised stores, hence Starbucks gets to keep the entire royalty & rent fee without paying for any costs.
Revenues earned from Starbucks' company owned stores are much higher than the franchised stores. This is because, although there are costs involved, Starbucks owns 100% of the revenues from its own restaurants, while it gets a percentage of the revenues (in the form of royalty fees) from its franchised restaurants.
Number of company owned stores comparable to franchised stores
Food & beverage companies, in general, increase their reach and profits by having a large base of franchised stores. For example, McDonald's has three times more franchised restaurants than company owned restaurants, making the franchise business more valuable to its stock. However, Starbucks has more company owned stores than franchised stores. As of December 30, 2012, Starbucks had 9,462 company-owned stores and 8,816 franchised stores making it a total of 18,278 stores.
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International expansion fueling growth
For the fiscal year 2013, Starbucks plans to open more than 1300 new stores most of which will be concentrated in the China/Asia Pacific region and South America. In China, the company plans to triple the number of outlets to 1500 by 2015. In South Korea, Starbucks will double the number of stores to 700 by 2016. It also opened its first outlet in India in 2012 and plans to accelerate growth in the next 2-3 years.
Ease and convenience of payment through mobile apps helping domestic sales
Since the launch of its mobile app 15 months ago, the company has processed more than 42 million mobile payments in the U.S. Consumers can load the money on to the app and then present a 2D bar code to pay at the register.
Global Consumer Products Group (CPG) revenues helped by direct distribution model
The CPG segment consists of packaged coffee and tea, Starbucks VIA Ready Brew and other branded products sold worldwide. Transition of these products from in-house stores to a direct distribution model (i.e. through grocery, drugstores and other sales channels) has helped boost the sales of products of this segment.
Trefis Forecast Rationale for Average Number of Franchised Stores
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This is the average number of coffee stores operating under licensing arrangement between Starbucks and its various partners across the globe.
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The ${forecast} stood at 7765 in 2009. The figure rose 2.6% in 2010 to 7969. In 2011, the average number of franchised stores increased by 1.9% to 8121. In 2012, the growth accelerated as the figure rose 4.5% to 8488.
The positive growth of franchised stores internationally has been negatively offset by store closures in the U.S. as part of the company's restructuring efforts to reduce self-cannibalization.
With restructuring now complete, we forecast more aggressive store openings. For 2013 and beyond, we expect the increase in the average number of franchised restaurants to be around 650-700 stores annually.
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Trefis considered the following factors for its forecast
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- Rate of growth for franchised restaurants greater than company-operated restaurants
- Franchised restaurants require low investment and offer high margins (as high as 75%). Most of the new restaurants that the company is opening are franchised restaurants.
- International markets are under-penetrated
- Most of the new restaurants the company plans to open are in China/Asia Pacific. The number of Starbucks outlets in these countries are only a fraction of what they are in the U.S. New outlets opened will be a mix of company-operated and franchised restaurants.
- Starbucks plans to triple the number of restaurants in China to 1500 by 2015. Similarly, it plans to double the number of restaurants in South Korea to 700 by 2016. The company also opened its first restaurant in India in 2012 and plans to accelerate the expansion in the coming years.
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- Lack of transparency in developing markets makes it difficult to franchise restaurants
- It is often more difficult to franchise restaurants in developing markets due to lack of big franchisees which can match the stature of Starbucks. Similarly, there are quality issues with franchisees which could permanently damage the company's reputation in that particular region. In such a scenario, Starbucks is better off opening company operated restaurants.
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