Starbucks shareholders are down 8.0% for the year (even including dividends), but the market itself is up 17%. Even the share prices of good stocks drop sometimes, but we want to see improvements in the fundamental metrics of a business, before getting too interested. Longer term investors wouldn't be so upset, since they would have made 3%, each year, over five years. It could be that the recent sell-off is an opportunity, so it may be worth checking the fundamental data for signs of a long term growth trend. It's always interesting to track share price performance over the longer term. But to understand Starbucks better, we need to consider many other factors. Even so, be aware that Starbucks is showing 4 warning signs in our investment analysis, and 2 of those make us uncomfortable...