Coca-Cola (KO) Stock Analysis – A Brief Overview

By Harris Dyer • Friday, November 21 15:19 • Permanent Link

Coca-Cola marked a 2.4% change today, compared to 1.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $72.92? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and sells various nonalcoholic beverages in the United States and internationally.
Coca-Cola belongs to the Consumer Staples sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 25.91 and an average price to book (P/B) of 3.03
The company's P/B ratio is 10.04
Coca-Cola has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.1 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $3.02 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is 24.6, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $2.97
Over the last four years, Coca-Cola has averaged free cash flows of $8.73 Billion, which on average grew -11.1%
KO's gross profit margins have averaged 59.7 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of 0.3 % and a coefficient of variability of 6.96 %.
Coca-Cola has moved 11.5% over the last year compared to 11.7% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -0.1%
KO has an average analyst rating of buy and is -7.84% away from its mean target price of $79.13 per share

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