The Coca-Cola Company is a multinational beverage company that is best known for its Coca-Cola carbonated beverage. Coca Cola also has a wide variety of other beverage lines, such as Minute Maid, Zico Coconut Water, Honest Tea and the Mexican sparkling water brand Topo Chico. Founded in 1892 by pharmacist John Stith Pemberton, Coca-Cola is now one of the world's largest companies.
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Coca-Cola's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 12 August 2012. So if you had owned 1 share the day before the split, the next day you would own 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Coca-Cola shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Coca-Cola shares which in turn could have impacted Coca-Cola's share price.
| 52-week range | US$50.737 - US$62.9818 |
|---|---|
| 50-day moving average | US$59.9598 |
| 200-day moving average | US$58.9622 |
| Target price | US$66.61 |
| PE ratio | 23.5061 |
| Dividend yield | US$1.84 (3.34%) |
| Earnings per share (TTM) | US$2.47 |
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Historical closes compared with the last close of $58.51
| 1 week (2024-04-12) | 0.39% |
|---|---|
| 1 month (2024-03-19) | -2.86% |
| 3 months (2024-01-19) | -2.21% |
| 6 months (2023-10-19) | 7.65% |
| 1 year (2023-04-19) | -8.12% |
|---|---|
| 2 years (2022-04-19) | -10.08% |
| 3 years (2021-04-19) | 8.35% |
| 5 years (2019-04-18) | 23.23% |
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Valuing Coca-Cola stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Coca-Cola's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.
Coca-Cola's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 24x. In other words, Coca-Cola shares trade at around 24x recent earnings.
That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.
Coca-Cola's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 2.9336. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.
The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Coca-Cola's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.
Coca-Cola's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is US$14.4 billion (£11.6 billion).
The EBITDA is a measure of a Coca-Cola's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure stock profitability.
Over the last 12 months, Coca-Cola's shares have ranged in value from as little as US$50.737 up to US$62.9818. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Coca-Cola's is 0.586. This would suggest that Coca-Cola's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).
| Revenue TTM | US$45.8 billion |
|---|---|
| Operating margin TTM | 22.49% |
| Gross profit TTM | US$25 billion |
| Return on assets TTM | 8.74% |
| Return on equity TTM | 40.16% |
| Profit margin | 23.42% |
| Book value | 6.022 |
| Market capitalisation | US$250.7 billion |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Dividend payout ratio: 69.33% of net profits
Recently Coca-Cola has paid out, on average, around 69.33% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 3.34% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Coca-Cola shareholders could enjoy a 3.34% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Coca-Cola's case, that would currently equate to about $1.84 per share.
Coca-Cola's payout ratio would broadly be considered high, and as such this stock could appeal to those looking to generate an income. Bear in mind however that companies should normally also look to re-invest a decent amount of net profits to ensure future growth.
Coca-Cola's most recent dividend payout was on 31 March 2024. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 13 March 2024 (the "ex-dividend date").
Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Coca-Cola.
When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.
Total ESG risk: 21.08
Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Coca-Cola's overall score of 21.08 (as at 12/31/2018) is pretty good – landing it in it in the 37th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.
ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Coca-Cola is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).
Environmental score: 8.2/100
Social score: 10.31/100
Governance score: 1.57/100
Controversy score: 3/5
ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Coca-Cola scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Coca-Cola hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.
The Coca-Cola Company was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.
| Total ESG score | 21.08 |
|---|---|
| Total ESG percentile | 37.48 |
| Environmental score | 8.2 |
| Social score | 10.31 |
| Governance score | 1.57 |
| Level of controversy | 3 |
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, caffeine free Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Dasani, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, and Minute Maid Pulpy brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
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