If You'd Invested $1,000 in Starbucks Stock 20 Years Ago, Here's How Much You'd Have Today

The chain of coffee houses has become much bigger than anyone expected it to become in its infancy.Twenty years ago Starbucks (SBUX -1.75%) was successfully building a chain of uniformly familiar coffee houses. The prospect of becoming one of the planet's most prolific food and beverage outfits, however, seemed remote at the time.We now know that's exactly what was in the cards. Its store count went from 7,800 stores then to nearly 39,000 stores as of the end of March, and quarterly revenue has grown from r ...