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We have interesting news for Starbucks stock investors, as the company has announced the closure of an additional 250 stores. And of course, if you've been following my coverage of Starbucks, I've been emphasizing that this is a likely scenario .

I feel that Starbucks suffers from what I, and many economists, call "economies of scale," where its size leads to inefficiency. This happens when a business, or one of its sectors, grows so large that it becomes difficult to manage effectively, and costs begin to rise at a faster rate than sales growth.

We haven't discussed Starbucks stock for a few years, and over the past few years , not much has happened to the stock. Now we have to see if Starbucks will return to what it once was, a machine of cumulative growth.

Because when you look at the past five years, you will find a 20% decline, and constant fluctuations between ups and downs. However, the market capitalization is 108 billion, the price-to- earnings ratio is 54, and the dividend yield is 2.61%.

In this video, we will be discussing Starbucks, whose stock market symbol is SBUX. We will review the basics of Starbucks' business, how it generates profits, look at some numbers, and then try to determine the fair value of a Starbucks stock to see if investing in it is worthwhile today.

CEO Brian Niccol is working his magic again. After being poached away from Chipotle, Brian Niccol is achieving significant success at Starbucks, accelerating comparable store sales growth to 7.9% in the most recently completed quarter.

At Starbucks, he's already facilitating significant improvement. The stock price is up meaningfully, sales are increasing, 90-day active rewards members are increasing to 36 million, and I like the strategy of slowing down new store development until you get the operations corrected, right?