Black Rock Coffee Bar: A 'Buy' Amid Surging Comp Sales

As we exit 2025, one of the key themes pervading the markets is a weakening consumer spending environment, which can be readily measured in decelerating comp sales (or same-store sales) in the retail and restaurant stocks that report this metric. Though vast portions of bothWith combined experience of covering technology companies on Wall Street and working in Silicon Valley, and serving as an outside adviser to several seed-round startups, Gary Alexander has exposure to many of the themes shaping the indus ...