Here, let me help...
- OK, the Beta's about the same, so we're talking about similar variabilities.
- But Starbucks' most recent EPS for the quarter is lagging. But on the other hand...
- People seem pretty bullish about Starbucks' future compared to the future returns from the "Big bad oil companies".
- Looking at their growth prospects, Starbucks pretty well beats the oil companies.
- Starbucks' profitability is also comparable to the oil companies.
Maybe we should start to appropriate Starbuck's sinful and unfair profits in order to fund some government programs.
Wait!!!
I think that I've most likely got Starbucks and the oil companies in my portfolio. That's not their profits Hillery wants -- their mine!!! From an economic perspective, Hillery is proposing that she knows how to invest those profits through the government better then I do through my portfolio!
Over my dead body!
