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Starbucks Stock Price Rides Wave of New Hiring

By Charles Thibault on May 18, 2010 in Employer Watch.

Starbucks Coffee Company's stock price has experienced, along with the rest of the market, an impressive year-long rally. Starbucks' stock price has doubled since last year, rising from $13 a share to $26 a share today (NASDAQ:SBUX).

This rally in the Starbucks stock price follows an almost 200% rise in hiring, as measured by the number of online job ads they've posted on job boards. WANTED Analytics™ tracks online job postings on over a thousand different employment-specific websites.

The number of online job ads was at a historical low of 184 for the week of February 15, 2009. A year ago, the week of May 17th 2009, Starbucks had 352 online job ads. For the week starting May 2, 2010, that count rose to 705 online job ads, a 100% increase (corresponding to the rise in the stock price).

Over the past quarter (90 days), the total count of online job ads is almost 200% above last year's levels.

Source: WANTED Analytics

Weekly Advertiser Watch – Booz Allen Hamilton; Hewlett-Packard; Starbucks; HMSHost; AT&T; Barnes & Noble; General Dynamics; JPMorgan Chase

By Charles Thibault on July 24, 2009 in Employer Watch.

Every week, WANTED Technologies Corporation produces a Gazelles Report. The Gazelles Report details the activity of companies who's Hiring Demand has spiked or shown upward trending. In a weekly feature, we look closer at several companies.

Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), the computer and electronic goods manufacture, has appeared on our Gazelles report for the past 4 weeks running. Its stock price has appreciated 52% since March 9th, 2009. Geographically speaking, Hiring Demand at HP has spiked in the Washington, DC metro area, as well as in the San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara MSA. The number of job ads in the San Jose area has doubled since April. Hiring Demand has increased for all three of its top occupations. The number of job ads has more than doubled since April for all three main Computer Occupations it is hiring for.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0

Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) has triggered a Gazelles alert by showing strong demand for "Management Occupations". Hiring Demand Indicators are well suited for large, sprawling corporations with thousands of employees. Since Hiring Demand is spread out across many many small locations, the aggregate activity of individual locations – without their knowing what other locations are doing – can be reflective of the overall corporate outlook.

Source: WANTED Analytics 2.0