Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) has a beta value of 0.44 and has seen 3.14 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $297.08B, closed the recent trade at $69.02 per share which meant it lost -$0.34 on the day or -0.49% during that session. The KO stock price is -7.77% off its 52-week high price of $74.38 and 12.17% above the 52-week low of $60.62. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 16.9 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 15.86 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that Coca-Cola Co (KO) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 1.46. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 0 rate it as Overweight. 3 out of 16 have rated it as a Hold, with 13 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) trade information
Sporting -0.49% in the red today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the KO stock price touched $69.02 or saw a rise of 1.61%. Year-to-date, Coca-Cola Co shares have moved 8.35%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -0.66%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) have changed -2.82%. Short interest in the company has seen 36.84 million shares shorted with days to cover at 2.63.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $70, which means that the shares’ value could jump 1.4% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $60.0 while the price target rests at a high of $81.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -17.36% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock lose 13.07% from the levels at last check today..
Coca-Cola Co (KO) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have gained 11.95% over the past 6 months.
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 3.54% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest 3.11% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 6.23%.
KO Dividends
Coca-Cola Co is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-29 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 1.99 at a share yield of 2.88%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.97%.
Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO)’s Major holders
Insiders own 9.87% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 65.28% with a share float percentage of 72.43%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with Coca-Cola Co having a total of 4218.0 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 $25.46 billion. As of 2024-06-30, BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY INC held 9.2829% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC, with the holding of over 370.7 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $23.6 billion and represent 8.6029% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 2.53% shares in the company for having 108.72 shares of worth $7.51 billion while later fund manager owns 107.58 shares of worth $7.43 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.50% of company’s outstanding stock.
