In today’s recent session, 8.92 million shares of the Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) have been traded, and its beta is 0.60. Most recently the company’s share price was $66.85, and it changed around $2.3 or 3.56% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $287.95B. KO at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $73.53, offering almost -9.99% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $57.93, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 13.34% since then. We note from Coca-Cola Co’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 13.28 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 17.11 million.
Coca-Cola Co stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, based on a mean score of 1.57. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 0 out of 26 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 7 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 6 recommended KO as a Hold, whereas 13 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) trade information
Instantly KO has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 3.56% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 67.64 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.17%. The company’s shares are currently up 7.36% year-to-date, but still up 6.66% over the last five days. On the other hand, Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) is 9.46% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 33.49 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 2.03 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $77, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 13.18% from its current value. Analyst projections state that KO is forecast to be at a low of $70 and a high of $78.
Coca-Cola Co (KO) estimates and forecasts
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 10.53%. Coca-Cola Co earnings are expected to increase by 2.39% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 5.52% per year for the next five years.
KO Dividends
Coca-Cola Co’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released in March. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 2.90 percent and its annual dividend per share was 1.94. It is important to note, however, that the 2.90% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 3.03 per year.
Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 10.14% of Coca-Cola Co shares, and 64.52% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 71.79%. Coca-Cola Co stock is held by 3976.0 institutions, with BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.2807% of the shares, which is about 400.0 million shares worth $25.46 billion.
VANGUARD GROUP INC, with 8.6009% or 370.7 million shares worth $23.6 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Sep 30, 2024 . The former held 122.95 shares worth $8.18 billion, making up 2.85% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 101.59 shares worth around $6.76 billion, which represents about 2.36% of the total shares outstanding.
