Here Are Some Essential Facts About Coca-Cola

By Susan Ramirez • Friday, November 03 15:28 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of Coca-Cola, a Beverages company whose shares moved -0.3% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

Coca-Cola has moved -3.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 17.0%
KO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.18% away from its mean target price of $61.97 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $2.47
Coca-Cola has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $2.62 and its forward P/E ratio is 21.7
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 9.35 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Coca-Cola is part of the Consumer Staples sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.36 and an average P/B of 4.29
KO has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 9.2% and gross profit margins of 0.6%
The company has a free cash flow of $6.54 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Dasani, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, and Minute Maid Pulpy brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

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