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Starbucks (SBUX) FCF Margin (2016 - 2025)

Starbucks (SBUX) has disclosed FCF Margin for 17 consecutive years, with 12.85% as the latest value for Q4 2025.

  • On a quarterly basis, FCF Margin fell 183.0% to 12.85% in Q4 2025 year-over-year; TTM through Dec 2025 was 6.2%, a 185.0% decrease, with the full-year FY2025 number at 6.57%, down 260.0% from a year prior.
  • FCF Margin was 12.85% for Q4 2025 at Starbucks, up from 9.67% in the prior quarter.
  • In the past five years, FCF Margin ranged from a high of 63.18% in Q3 2023 to a low of 50.91% in Q2 2023.
  • A 5-year average of 9.15% and a median of 10.35% in 2022 define the central range for FCF Margin.
  • Peak YoY movement for FCF Margin: surged 5286bps in 2023, then tumbled -5280bps in 2024.
  • Starbucks' FCF Margin stood at 12.72% in 2021, then tumbled by -48bps to 6.58% in 2022, then soared by 188bps to 18.97% in 2023, then dropped by -23bps to 14.67% in 2024, then dropped by -12bps to 12.85% in 2025.
  • Per Business Quant, the three most recent readings for SBUX's FCF Margin are 12.85% (Q4 2025), 9.67% (Q3 2025), and 4.59% (Q2 2025).