Peet's Coffee & Tea, Inc. (PEET)

sommer316 (94.58) Submitted: 1/07/07 11:21 AM : Start Price: $26.43 PEET Score: 21.89

Peets has a low but growing store count. With a company like this I can see where the future growth is going to come from. I visited my first Peets this fall, and I loved it. It was in downtown San Francisco, it was crowded, and it was surrounded ...

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pencils2 (99.70) Submitted: 5/24/06 2:13 AM : Start Price: $29.94 PEET Score: 3.13

Peet's Coffee and Tea is a specialty retailer with 112 stores in the U.S. Starbucks is a risk towards Peet's, but I believe that with their uniqueness, Peet's will survive and provide great returns in the long run.

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BostonKate (28.45) Submitted: 9/15/06 10:02 PM : Start Price: $25.95 PEET Score: -18.33

Peet's is careful about its expansion, limiting new stores so that quality of product and service can be tightly controlled and using mail order to serve customers in non-retail areas. Peet's also maintains good traffic & turnover in stores by limiti...

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stratton6 (99.69) Submitted: 6/25/06 5:32 PM : Start Price: $28.61 PEET Score: 5.96

There is definatly room for Peets to coexist with Starbucks and this is the type of product that does have a brand loyalty factor. Peets just needs to build up the momentum that seemed easy for Starbucks. If there is a choice between Peets and Star...

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StinkyMatt (98.88) Submitted: 10/03/07 2:16 PM : Start Price: $26.29 PEET Score: 24.29

This pick is based on the assumption that Peet's will someday open a store near me and that my daily consumption of Peet's coffee alone constitutes a significant growth opportunity.

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redpill73 (97.68) Submitted: 8/24/07 8:35 PM : Start Price: $24.78 PEET Score: 29.54

With the Arabica coffee bean moving into the for front of American Coffee of all the major chains only Peets can be considered premium coffee. They have master roasters making fresh beans every morning, new distribution centers. Their focus is on th...

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slmcanal (49.92) Submitted: 10/08/07 11:34 PM : Start Price: $28.53 PEET Score: 20.66

The best coffee. The company is determined to keep it that way. Growth is slow but steady. They have a lot of pride in their product.

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raiders1880 (43.11) Submitted: 11/13/06 2:02 AM : Start Price: $26.73 PEET Score: 18.65

expanding before our eyes. i grew up in the bay and that was the only place you could get peet's coffee. now, i live in reno and it's in all the grocery stores here. may slide a little while new stores and distribution faciltyare being built. after t...

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SweetLou2211 (< 20) Submitted: 9/27/06 1:44 PM : Start Price: $26.04 PEET Score: 18.54

Selling at historical low valuation. Just beginning to come out of the low slump. Great growth prospects in a huge coffee industry.

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FoolMe77 (< 20) Submitted: 9/21/07 9:55 AM : Start Price: $28.14 PEET Score: 20.56

Great coffee. A "better" version of Starbucks. The negative: my sense is that management is not as shareholder focused (read "profit") as Starbucks, but the better mousetrap theory wins the day.

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