Why Do You Need To Add Coca-Cola Co (KO) To Your Portfolio?

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) has a beta value of 0.59 and has seen 14.83 million shares traded in the last trading session. The company, currently valued at $259.31B, closed the last trade at $60.13 per share which meant it gained $0.25 on the day or 0.42% during that session. The KO stock price is -8.08% off its 52-week high price of $64.99 and 14.27% above the 52-week low of $51.55. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 15.9 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 13.85 million shares.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) trade information

Sporting 0.42% in the green in last session, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, when the KO stock price touched $60.13 or saw a rise of 1.76%. Year-to-date, Coca-Cola Co shares have moved 2.04%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -0.18%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) have changed 1.23%. Short interest in the company has seen 22.13 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.48.

Coca-Cola Co (KO) estimates and forecasts

Figures show that Coca-Cola Co shares have underperformed across the wider relevant industry. The company’s shares have gained 3.78% over the past 6 months, with this year growth rate of 4.46%, compared to 20.70% for the industry. Other than that, the company has, however, increased its growth outlook for the 2024 fiscal year revenue. Growth estimates for the current quarter are -5.90% and -5.10% for the next quarter. Revenue growth from the last financial year stood is estimated to be -0.00%.

12 analysts offering their estimates for the company have set an average revenue estimate of $10.16 billion for the current quarter. 12 have an estimated revenue figure of $10.89 billion for the next quarter concluding in Jun 2024. Year-ago sales stood $10.96 billion and $11.75 billion respectively for this quarter and the next, and analysts expect sales will shrink by -7.30% for the current quarter and -7.30% for the next.

If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 10.53% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2024 is a modest 4.62% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 6.21%.

KO Dividends

Coca-Cola Co is expected to release its next earnings report between April 22 and April 26 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.86 at a share yield of 3.10%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO)’s Major holders

Insiders own 9.95% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 62.93% with a share float percentage of 69.88%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Coca-Cola Co having a total of 3,784 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are Berkshire Hathaway, Inc with over 400.0 million shares worth more than $24.09 billion. As of Jun 29, 2023, Berkshire Hathaway, Inc held 9.25% of shares outstanding.

The other major institutional holder is Vanguard Group Inc, with the holding of over 369.88 million shares as of Jun 29, 2023. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $22.27 billion and represent 8.55% of shares outstanding.

Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund. As of Jun 29, 2023, the former fund manager holds about 2.80% shares in the company for having 121.15 million shares of worth $7.3 billion while later fund manager owns 92.67 million shares of worth $5.58 billion as of Jun 29, 2023, which makes it owner of about 2.14% of company’s outstanding stock.