Revenue growth has been very strong, but, the rate of growth has been sliding considerably lower. For the nine months ended September 30, 2015, revenue increased 49% year/year to $892.6 million. In FY14, revenue jumped 54%, and in FY13, revenue surged 172%. A main reason for the slow-down in growth is that transactions generated at SBUX are slowing, as expected. Also, the company is simply lapping larger and larger numbers, so the growth rates are naturally going to come down. A notable positive is that its gross margin is improving, albeit, margins are still pretty thin. For this nine month period, gross margin was 29.2%, compared to 26.6% last year and 23.3% in 2013. The improvement here...
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