Now that Starbucks is a “boring†dividend paying value
stock, growth investors may want to look elsewhere in the coffee sector to get their caffeine jolt. Starbucks’ rival Caribou recently posted analysis beating second quarter earnings per share earnings of 12 cents. Caribou Coffee’s net sales for the quarter climbed nearly 9.4 percent to $68.9 million.
Moving to a less capital intensive strategy of franchising, rather than operate company owned stores, CBOU is posting better year over year EPS growth than its main rivals. Caribou posting 103 percent growth versus 34 percent for SBUX and 19 percent for Peet’s Coffee & Tea.