Starbucks Corporation filings document material events, operating results, governance matters, and corporate transactions for the Nasdaq-listed coffee company. Recent Form 8-K reports furnish quarterly earnings releases covering comparable store sales, revenue, margins, segment performance, and store portfolio disclosures across the company’s global coffeehouse operations.
The filing record also includes Regulation FD disclosures on the completed China retail joint venture, annual meeting voting results, a definitive proxy statement covering director elections, executive compensation and auditor ratification, and amended officer-transition disclosures. These documents record Starbucks’ governance structure, shareholder voting matters, executive leadership changes, and transaction-related disclosures tied to its international retail operations.
Starbucks Corporation filed an 8-K announcing it issued a press release with financial results for the quarter ended September 28, 2025. The press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1.
The filing identifies Starbucks’ common stock (SBUX) listed on the Nasdaq Global Select Market. This is a routine disclosure to furnish quarterly results via an accompanying press release.
Starbucks announced a company-wide restructuring under its "Back to Starbucks" strategy to revitalize coffeehouses and shift investment toward store-level operations. The Board approved closing coffeehouses that cannot deliver the brand experience or show a clear path to financial performance and is transforming its support organization. The company expects most store closures to be completed by the end of the fiscal year and estimates approximately $1 billion of restructuring costs, with 90% attributable to North America. Management expects about $400 million of non-cash asset impairment and disposal charges and roughly $600 million of cash expenditures, including employee separation and lease exit costs, with a significant portion incurred in fiscal 2025.
Sara Kelly, Executive Vice President and Chief Partner Officer of Starbucks Corporation (SBUX), reported a non‑derivative transaction dated 09/15/2025 disposing of 146.101 shares of Common Stock at $82.68 per share. The filing indicates the shares were withheld by the issuer to satisfy tax withholding upon vesting of restricted stock units, not sold in the open market. After this withholding the reporting person beneficially owns 46,380.254 shares. The filing notes the total includes 34.6843 shares purchased under the Employee Stock Purchase Plan on 06/30/2025 and 214 shares representing dividend equivalents on unvested time‑based RSUs. The form is signed by attorney‑in‑fact Stephanie A. Tso on 09/17/2025.
Brian R. Niccol, chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks Corporation (SBUX), reported on Form 4 that on 09/09/2025 the company withheld 56,319.906 shares of common stock to satisfy tax-withholding obligations upon vesting of restricted stock units at a reported price of $83.81 per share. The filing shows this withholding was recorded as a disposition (code F) and was not an open-market sale. After the transaction, Mr. Niccol beneficially owned 379,835.094 shares.
The filing also notes that the total beneficial ownership includes 10,352 shares received as dividend equivalents on unvested time-based restricted stock units. The Form 4 was signed on behalf of Mr. Niccol by an attorney-in-fact on 09/11/2025.
Capital Research Global Investors disclosed beneficial ownership of 76,686,152 shares of Starbucks common stock, equal to 6.7% of 1,136,400,000 shares believed outstanding (CUSIP 855244109).
The filing shows CRGI has sole voting power for 76,676,488 shares and sole dispositive power for 76,686,152 shares. CRGI is described as a division of Capital Research and Management Company together with related investment management entities. The Schedule 13G certification states the shares are held in the ordinary course of business and were not acquired to change or influence control. The filing includes issuer principal office address and the event date 06/30/2025.