B-b-but I was told that paying employees more would cause inflation!
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I'm pretty sure the last couple of years has been mass rich fuck retaliation for pushing some fast food workers wages to $15/hr.
The poor rich people
This is garbage data. Learn the difference between revenue, gross profit, and net profit.
Ok. $36 biliion consolidated net revenue reported at a 16% profit margin for fiscal year 2023 still leaves $5.76 billion in money that went somewhere after everyone was paid, taxes were ~~avoided~~ paid and all approved expenses were handled.
Edit: adding source https://investor.starbucks.com/press-releases/financial-releases/press-release-details/2023/Starbucks-Reports-Q4-and-Full-Year-Fiscal-2023-Results/default.aspx
WILL SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE SHAREHOLDERS???? HOW CAN THEY SURVIVE WITHOUT THEIR (checks Starbucks earnings sheet) $4B IN NET EARNINGS!?!?
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All together it's $528.773 billion! That's $66 for each and every single person on the planet!
What even the fuck.
Aka one family meal at Culver's.
Obviously it's not going to go far if you're spending it at Culver's, but for some people out there it'd be a big deal.
It's even worse: corporate profits are driving price inflation.
Proper Inflation sees both prices and salaries go up, so isn't all that bad for most people (unless it goes all the way to hyperinflation) because people aren't actually losing purchasing power as they do with just price inflation.
Came here to say this too, so I hope it's okay if I elaborate.
Politicians and corporations love to conflate cost of living increases with inflation. Not every price increase is due to inflation. Only price increases that are due to increased customer buying power are inflation. Taxes don't 'drive inflation' they slow it, because they reduce customer buying power. Taxes DO increase cost of living (if they aren't used to fund services that reduce cost of living).
Corporations love to point at price increases and just 'inflation'. Politicians love to say
we're getting tough on inflation, our policies limited it to just 5% (or whatever).
When sure maybe inflation is just 5% but total cost of living has gone up much more, which is the actual problem.
Inflation typically only hurts people on fixed incomes. Hyper inflation, where inflation is so severe that markets can't set prices and people lose faith in money altogether, is obviously a problem but it takes a lot more inflation than what we're seeing.
To borrow some investor speak: "Past performance is no guarantee of future results." However in this case, it absolutely does. The drive to squeeze even one more drop of blood is relentless and in many cases it's required. Boards must do what's best for the company or they risk lawsuits from shareholders. They cannot deviate from a maximum-extraction plan (either profits or market share) without very good reasons. Each one of those companies has to do better year over year, or explain to the board/shareholders/media/etc why they did not.
How they get those profits up can be cutting pay, "restructuring" (layoffs), optimization, price increases, cheaper supply, better methods, etc. Most of this list will be the same next year and the numbers will be higher. Hate the game.
It's perfectly evil system as nobody has to take moral accountability. The board has to make the best decisions for the shareholders and the shareholders don't run the company, just invest in it. It's what my mind goes to when oil companies claim that they are doing their part for climate change.
Well, you almost see the issue. Its the government that was supposed to take moral accountability. It was supposed to set minimum wages, environmental standards and other rules under which corpos cude try to increase profits.
But oil companies figured out they can distract people by pitting them against each other or by making them "protest the companies" and "vote with their wallets", which never had any chance of doing anything. And then most companies followed suit.
When do we start burning shit.
I keep asking people to join my radical and extremely poorly regulated militia but everyone thinks it's a joke for some reason.
Too many ppl have families and comforts they don't want to risk losing.
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Why is this list not sorted? Am I the only one confused by this?
It is sorted, it's a list of "gigantic asshole companies" they just all tied for first.
:P
And where does Starbucks come from? Why is it not in that list? Or is it part of one of these companies?
Ah yes, the famous Walmart, having 2 times the profits of Apple but costing 5 times less in stock.
The picture totally makes sense, no questions asked.
Stock price is not inherently tied to profit. That is why p/e ratio exists. Also different industries can have different p/e ratios. Not even this holds though. Tesla's p/e is OOM more than Toyota, but Toyota has higher profits and sells more cars.
The OP data is wrong, which you probably already know. Apple's net income (AKA Profit) for 2023 was ~$96B while Walmart's was ~$11B. Walmart is the largest corporation by revenue but retail is a low margin, high overhead business. Their operating costs are much higher than Apple's.
Also, as another commenter mentioned, share price is not linked that closely to profitability. There are other factors that influence the share price. Hell, share price isn't even tied that closely to it's actual value. See "Book Value" vs. "Market Value".
Revenue does not mean gross profit. Gross profit does not mean net earnings. The numbers this person posted is the money the conpany gets before any operation costs. This means this is how much the product sold regardless of how much it costs to produce, package, ship, r&d, worker cost, etc. This meme has to stop its poisoning your brains
before any operation costs
paying employees a wealth generating compensation should be an operational cost, my friend.
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Surely Starbucks have more employees than that? Are they all franchised or something?
If it's 400,000 employees, that means at least one in every thousand Americans works for the company.
There is a world outside the USA.
As an American, I knew Starbucks was international, but it's to a greater extent than I'd realized.
World-famous coffeehouse chain, Starbucks, accounted for 35,711 stores worldwide in 2022. There were more international stores than those located in the company's home nation of the United States. These figures amounted to 19,838 and 15,873, respectively.
Just sharing this here in case anyone else is interested lol.
This is gold
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The company that owns Huggies Diapers managed to reduce costs of production multiple years in a row while raising prices for consumers at the same time.
Dafuq Apple is doing
Convincing people they need to buy basically the exact same shit yearly.
And fighting a lot of lawsuits involving their planned obsolescence and monopoly so they can keep it that way.
I find it kinda ironic that apple users upgrade every year, cause iPhones can last forever, thatβs the very reason I use it, my cousins 11 pro is still going very strong, and I plan to use mine atleast until I break it or Apple ends support
I wonder how many people actually buy an iPhone every year
Lots, based on sales.
I'm on my third SE version, which is the SE2, so I still have an SE3 to go. I'm set for at least 6 years.
Briefly went from my last SE (the first 8-body SE) to a 13 because I got a deal. Hated it, sold it on ebay two months later, bought an SE2. Thrilled with my decision.
Making mountains of ewaste
These numbers are gross profit I believe. You can have $100B in gross profits and $100B in costs, netting $0. Better to show EBITDA and make your point that way.
To your point "Starbucks annual net income for 2023 was $4.125B, a 25.69%" https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/SBUX/starbucks/net-income#:~:text=Starbucks%20net%20income%20for%20the,a%2025.69%25%20increase%20from%202022.
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