-7.45% percent quarterly performance for Coca-Cola Co (KO) is not indicative of the underlying story

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) kicked off on Monday, down -0.88% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $63.92. Over the past 52 weeks, KO has traded in a range of $56.06-$73.53.

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During the last 5-year period, the sales growth of Consumer Defensive Sector giant was 6.53%. While this was happening, its average annual earnings per share was recorded 6.09%. With a float of $4.27 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $4.31 billion.

Let’s determine the extent of company efficiency that accounts for 79100 employees. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 60.43%, operating margin of 20.61%, and the pretax margin is 27.52%.

Coca-Cola Co (KO) Insider Activity

Our next focus will be how large-scale investors are participating in this stock of the Beverages – Non-Alcoholic Industry. The insider ownership of Coca-Cola Co is 0.77%, while institutional ownership is 73.38%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 07 ’24, was worth 6,379,500. Before that another transaction happened on Aug 27 ’24, when Company’s Executive Vice President sold 18,484 for $71.50, making the entire transaction worth $1,321,606. This insider now owns 223,330 shares in total.

Coca-Cola Co (KO) Earnings and Forecasts

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.09% per share during the next fiscal year. For the long-term projections, market analysts anticipate that the company’s EPS will surge by 5.48% during the next five years compared to 10.53% growth over the previous five years of trading.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) Trading Performance Indicators

Take a look at Coca-Cola Co’s (KO) current performance indicators. Last quarter, stock had a quick ratio of 0.90. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.91. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 80.32.

For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is 2.41, a number that is poised to hit 0.52 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 2.98 in one year’s time.

Technical Analysis of Coca-Cola Co (KO)

Looking closely at Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO), its last 5-days average volume was 15.05 million, which is a jump from its year-to-date volume of 13.29 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 12.94%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 1.01.

During the past 100 days, Coca-Cola Co’s (KO) raw stochastic average was set at 10.40%, which indicates a significant increase from 3.26% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 14.07% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 14.12% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $69.38, while its 200-day Moving Average is $64.53. However, in the short run, Coca-Cola Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $63.90. Second resistance stands at $64.45. The third major resistance level sits at $64.77. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $63.03, it is likely to go to the next support level at $62.71. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $62.16.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) Key Stats

The company with the Market Capitalisation of 274.06 billion has total of 4,307,797K Shares Outstanding. Its annual sales at the moment are 45,754 M in contrast with the sum of 10,714 M annual income. Company’s last quarter sales were recorded 11,854 M and last quarter income was 2,848 M.