Starbucks sales improve but store closures and layoffs take a bite out of profits DEEANN DURBIN October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM 0 FILE A costumer exits a Starbucks store in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File) () Starbucks reported betterthanexpected revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter as its U.S. sales improved. The Seattlebased company said its net revenue rose 5% to $9.6 billion in the JulySeptember period. That was better than the $9.3 billion Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
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DEE-ANN DURBIN October 30, 2025 at 1:38 AM
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FILE - A costumer exits a Starbucks store in Oakland, Calif., Thursday, Jan. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Godofredo A. Vásquez, File) ()
Starbucks reported better-than-expected revenue in its fiscal fourth quarter as its U.S. sales improved.
The Seattle-based company said its net revenue rose 5% to $9.6 billion in the July-September period. That was better than the $9.3 billion Wall Street was expecting, according to analysts polled by FactSet.
Starbucks' global same-store sales, or sales at locations open at least a year, rose 1% compared to the same period a year ago. It was the first time in seven quarters that the company posted an increase in same-store sales.
That increase was largely due to markets outside North America, where same-store sales rose 3%. In North America and the U.S., same-store sales were flat. But that was still an improvement from the third quarter, when U.S. same-store sales fell 2%.
But the improvement comes at a cost. Starbucks said its profit fell 85% in the fourth quarter to 12 cents per share as it carried out a $1 billion restructuring.
The company announced last month that it was laying off 900 non-retail employees and closing hundreds of stores. On Wednesday, Starbucks said it closed 627 stores as part of that restructuring; 90% of them were in North America.
Adjusted for one-time items, including its restructuring costs, Starbucks said it earned 52 cents per share in the fourth quarter. That was lower than the 56-cent profit analysts had forecast, according to FactSet.
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Published: October 29, 2025 at 10:18PM on Source: CORR MAG
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