On August 12, 2025, financial analysts made rating calls on several companies, including upgrading Starbucks and monday.com, and downgrading Shopify.

The entities involved

• Morgan Stanley →

  U.S. investment bank

  • Financial firms including Morgan Stanley, Truist Financial, Jefferies Financial Group, and CIBC issued rating and price objective updates for Clearway Energy.Mon 17:33
  • Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America are competing in the global investment banking sector.Mon 17:24
• Starbucks →

  American multinational coffee company

  • Starbucks gift cards were used as alleged voter registration incentives, leading to a cease-and-desist from Kris Kobach in Leavenworth County.Mon 15:27
  • Starbucks is introducing new products to celebrate National Coffee Day.Mon 14:18
• monday.com →

  team management & project management software

  • Enterprise software market rotation is benefiting incumbent companies, including Intuit, monday.com, and HubSpot.Wed 13:58
  • Intuit, Salesforce, HubSpot, and monday.com are all part of the enterprise software sector experiencing market shifts and stock performance volatility.Wed 13:58
• Shopify →

  Canadian e-commerce company

  • Market America Worldwide sold the SHOP.COM domain to Shopify on September 28, 2026.Mon 17:03
  • FDA sets standards for e-cigarette product approval.Sun 22:49

Related events

• Morgan Stanley provided financial analysis on several food and beverage brands, including CMG, Applebee, and Starbucks.Jun 8
• Starbucks continues to operate within the competitive US market.Jun 17
• Starbucks has been performing better than McDonald's in terms of stock performance as of September 9, 2026.Sep 9
• Reuters reported on Starbucks' profitability challenges.Sep 13
• Officials are collaborating to persuade a coffee giant, Starbucks, to remain in a city facing business failures due to operational issues like parking and ticketing.Aug 25