Coffee giant Starbucks (NASDAQ: SBUX) is an incredible success story. Former CEO Howard Schultz grew the chain from a few stores in Seattle in the early 1980s to nearly 25,000 locations today, creating a company valued at more than $75 billion, with annual revenue of $22 billion and annual net income approaching $3 billion. Starbucks stock has proven to be a blockbuster investment, soaring nearly 16,000% since the company went public, in 1992, and gaining about 280% over the past decade.