About Coca-Cola Company (The)
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and sells various nonalcoholic beverages in the United States and internationally. The company provides Trademark Coca-Cola, sparkling soft drinks and flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and emerging beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers comprising restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, caffeine free Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Fanta, Sprite, Simply, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Crystal, Dasani, Fuze Tea, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, Core Power, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Maaza, Minute Maid, Minute Maid Pulpy, Santa Clara, and dogadan brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The Coca-Cola Company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Coca-Cola Company (The) (KO) is a Consumer Defensive company in the Beverages - Non-Alcoholic industry with a market capitalisation of $379.9B. The stock trades at 26.51x trailing earnings and yields 2.4%.
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Industry
- Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
- Market cap
- $379.9B
- P/E ratio
- 26.51
- Forward P/E
- 25.04
- EPS (TTM)
- $3.33
- Revenue (TTM)
- $50.1B
- Free cash flow
- $5.2B
- Profit margin
- 28.6%
- Dividend yield
- 2.4%
- Beta
- 0.34
- Shares outstanding
- 4.3B
Financial health: Strong7.7/10
7 strengths, 1 concern. Weakest points: peg ratio.
- Debt to equity: 0.05 (Strong, benchmark < 0.5) — Debt of 0.05x equity is conservative against the 0.5x benchmark. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Net debt vs cash flow: 0.0y (Strong, benchmark < 4 years) — Holds more cash than debt ($8.8B net cash).
- Current ratio: 1.46 (Watch, benchmark > 1.5) — Short-term assets cover 1.46x short-term liabilities, against Graham's 1.5x floor. It has improved over the last 4 years.
- Return on equity: 42.0% (Strong, benchmark > 15%) — Earns 42.0% on shareholder equity, comfortably past the > 15% mark.
- Gross margin: 61.9% (Strong, benchmark > 40%) — Keeps 61.9% of revenue after the direct cost of sales, comfortably past the > 40% mark.
- Net margin: 28.6% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Turns 28.6% of revenue into profit, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- Free cash flow: $5.3B (Strong, benchmark positive) — Generated $5.3B of free cash flow after capital spending. It has deteriorated over the last 4 years.
- Revenue growth: 6.7% (Watch, benchmark > 10%) — Revenue changed 6.7% year on year, short of the > 10% mark.
- Earnings growth: 16.9% (Strong, benchmark > 10%) — Earnings changed 16.9% year on year, comfortably past the > 10% mark.
- PEG ratio: 4.01 (Concern, benchmark < 1) — At 4.01, the price looks expensive relative to expected growth — Lynch treated 1.0 as fair value.
- Payout ratio: 62.5% (Watch, benchmark < 60%) — Pays out 62.5% of earnings as dividends — above the level usually considered sustainable.