Green Mountain Coffee Roasters is a stock many love to hate, including me. So it came as no surprise that upon a tepid earnings release on Wednesday, bears jumped on the stock as if it were a salmon heading upstream. In reality (far from the domicile of Mr. Market), Green Mountain Coffee actually posted a decent quarter, and its outlook is closer to analyst expectations than originally thought. But the biggest questions in the minds of many are whether company management has rectified the accounting issues that triggered 2011's short campaign from famed investor David Einhorn, and how the company is navigating in a post-K-Cup-patent world. Has Green Mountain moved on to greener pastures, or is it still in the mud? Skeptical growth Whether you like the company or not, it is impossible to deny its impressive growth over a relatively short period of time. Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, with all of its ups and downs, gave its shareholders more than 500% in capital appreciation over a five-year period.