The Coca-Cola Company (KO) Stock

About The Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and sells various nonalcoholic beverages in the United States and internationally. The company provides Trademark Coca-Cola, sparkling soft drinks and flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and emerging beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers comprising 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, Sprite, Simply, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Crystal, Dasani, Fuze Tea, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, Core Power, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Maaza, Minute Maid, Minute Maid Pulpy, Santa Clara, and dogadan brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The Coca-Cola Company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

The Coca-Cola Company is led by CEO Henrique Braun, employs 69,700 people, headquartered in Atlanta, US, publicly traded since 1919.

The Coca-Cola Company (KO) stock trades at $87.05 with a market capitalization of $374.54B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.70, price-to-book of 10.48, price-to-sales of 7.16. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $65.35 and $90.30, and currently trades 3.6% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 2.59%.

On profitability, The Coca-Cola Company generates a return on equity (ROE) of 43.62% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 17.67%, an operating margin of 29.34%, a net profit margin of 27.80%.

In its most recent fiscal year, The Coca-Cola Company reported annual revenue of $47.9B, net profit of $13.1B, revenue has compounded at 7.7% a year over the last five years, profit at 11.1% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.30, a current ratio of 1.36, total assets of $104.8B, $10.3B in cash and equivalents.

KO has an average daily trading volume of 17,120,000 shares, a beta of 0.35 (less volatile than the overall market).

Official website: www.coca-colacompany.com