Shares of coffee retailer Starbucks are trading lower on Friday after the company reported weaker-than-expected revenue for its second fiscal quarter of 2016. Revenue was up 9.4% compared to the year-ago quarter, reaching $4.99 billion. This was just barely shy of a consensus analyst estimate for revenue of $5.03 billion. Shares are down about 6% at the time of this writing.
But is the market overreacting? Here are 10 reasons why the company&apos;s results looked solid despite the market&apos;s pessimistic reaction.
9%: Starbucks&apos; 9% year-over-year revenue growth wasn&apos;t slow by any means. Sure, it&apos;s slower than the company&apos;s nearly 14% year-over-year growth in the trailing 12 months before Q2, but in a market where many restaurants and retailers are struggling to grow revenue, it&apos;s still impressive.
18%: It&apos;s easier to forgive Starbucks&apos; slight miss on its top line when you take into consideration how meaningfully the company&apos;s bottom line increased during the quarter. EPS was up 18% in Q2 compared to the year-ago quarter, and in line with analysts&apos; expectations.
18% (again): Starbucks&apos; expansion to China is looking like a hit. Revenues in the market were up 18% compared to the year ago quarter. And transactions in the market were up 5%.
6%: Global same-store sales were up 6%. This is a seriously solid metric. Food retailers have been struggling to grow comparable stores meaningfully lately, yet Starbucks continues to push the envelope.
7%: Same-store sales were up 7% in the U.S., highlighting Starbucks&apos; consistent ability to get more bang for its buck at established stores even in its highly saturated U.S. market. For comparison, consider Dunkin&apos; Brands comparable Dunkin&apos; Donuts store sales decline in the U.S. of 0.8% in its most recent quarter, or its paltry 1.4% growth in the metric in the full year of 2015.
900,000 new members joined Starbucks Loyalty program during Q4, up 16% from the year-ago quarter and 8% sequentially. This brings total active users of the consumer goods giant&apos;s loyalty program to 12 million.
Starbucks app. Image source: Starbucks.
22%: Loyalty members are spending 22% more than they were in the year-ago quarter, continuing to highlight how engaged Starbucks customers using the company&apos;s mobile applications spend more money than average customers.
100%: Mobile order and mobile pay usage "doubled," year over year. This means Starbucks is processing 8 million mobile order and mobile pay transactions per month.
17.3%: Starbucks investors can bask in the company&apos;s ongoing improving profitability. The company&apos;s operating margin hit a record 17.3% in Q2, representing a 30 basis point improvement compared to the year-ago quarter.
$864 million: A record operating margin combined with the company&apos;s highest revenues of any non-holiday quarter drove record operating income of $864 million.
Despite the market&apos;s skittish response to Starbucks&apos; second-quarter report, the company isn&apos;t giving investors any solid reason to sell. Indeed, a sell-off is making the stock look a bit more enticing.
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