Coca-Cola Co (KO) ticks all the boxes for top investors with its surprise performance of -1.84% last month.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) on Friday, plunged -0.62% from the previous trading day, before settling in for the closing price of $62.92. Within the past 52 weeks, KO’s price has moved between $57.47 and $73.53.

A company in the Consumer Defensive sector has jumped its sales by 6.53% annually for the last half of the decade. The company achieved an average annual earnings per share of 6.04%. With a float of $4.27 billion, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $4.31 billion.

In an organization with 79100 employees, it is important to assess its efficiency. 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 and Institutional Ownership

Observing investor behavior towards Beverages – Non-Alcoholic industry stocks is more important than anything else. The insider ownership of Coca-Cola Co is 0.77%, while institutional ownership is 73.44%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Nov 22 ’24, was worth 696,996. Before that another transaction happened on Nov 22 ’24, when Company’s Executive Vice President sold 10,950 for $63.71, making the entire transaction worth $697,673. This insider now owns 22,688 shares in total.

Coca-Cola Co (KO) Latest Financial update

Wall Street market experts anticipate that the next fiscal year will bring earnings of 0.74 per share during the current fiscal year.

According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 6.04% 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

Coca-Cola Co (KO) is currently performing well based on its current performance indicators. A quick ratio of 0.90 was reported for the most recent quarter. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 5.77. Likewise, its price to free cash flow for the trailing twelve months is 78.46.

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)

Let’s dig in a bit further. During the last 5-days, its volume was 21.23 million. That was better than the volume of 13.71 million it reported in year-ago period. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 20.42%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.94.

During the past 100 days, Coca-Cola Co’s (KO) raw stochastic average was set at 9.39%, which indicates a significant decrease from 27.40% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 13.85% in the past 14 days, which was lower than the 14.14% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.

At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $66.36, while its 200-day Moving Average is $64.82. However, in the short run, Coca-Cola Co’s stock first resistance to watch stands at $63.09. Second resistance stands at $63.65. The third major resistance level sits at $63.94. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $62.24, it is likely to go to the next support level at $61.95. The third support level lies at $61.39 if the price breaches the second support level.

Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) Key Stats

Market capitalization of the company is 267.70 billion based on 4,307,797K outstanding shares. Right now, sales total 45,754 M and income totals 10,714 M. The company made 11,854 M in profit during its latest quarter, and 2,848 M in sales during its previous quarter.