KO Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Coca-Cola Company | NYSE:KO)

Founded in 1886, Atlanta-headquartered Coca-Cola is the world's largest nonalcoholic beverage company, with a strong portfolio of 200 brands covering key categories including carbonated soft drinks, water, sports, energy, juice, and coffee. Together with bottlers and distribution partners, the company sells finished beverage products bearing Coca-Cola and licensed brands through retailers and food-service locations in more than 200 countries and regions globally. Coca-Cola generates around two thirds of its total revenue overseas, with a significant portion from emerging economies in Latin America and Asia-Pacific.

Coca-Cola Company trades on the NYSE stock market under the symbol KO.

As of December 20, 2024, KO stock price climbed to $62.55 with 32,971,457 million shares trading.

KO has a beta of 0.14, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. KO has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

KO has a market cap of $269.46 billion. This is considered a Mega Cap stock.

Last quarter Coca-Cola Company reported $12 billion in Revenue and $.77 earnings per share. This beat revenue expectation by $254 million and exceeded earnings estimates by $.03.

In the last 3 years, KO traded as high as $73.53 and as low as $51.55.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that KO belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VOO, SPY, IVV, SCHD.

KO has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +11.9%, while the SPY ETF gained +27.8%. In the last 3 month period, KO fell short of the market, returning -12.0%, while SPY returned +4.4%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks KO has outperformed the stock market by returning 0.0%, while SPY returned -2.4%.

KO support price is $61.81 and resistance is $63.09 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that KO shares will trade within this expected range on the day.