Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.70% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $69.99.
Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $69.50, falling within a range of $69.365 and $70.03. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.62 whereas the PE ratio is 28.44 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $73.53, and the low was $57.93. On the whole, KO has fluctuated by 13.30% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of Coca-Cola Co currently standing at about $301.48 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for in March. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.94, with its dividend yield at 2.77%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 47.97B, with a low estimate of 11.02B and a high estimate of 11.59B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 11.24B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that KO’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a Hold on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 50% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 50% Buy.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 4.68, with the price of KO currently trading nearly 9.04% and 10.95% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 77.92, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.73% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.57%. Furthermore, Coca-Cola Co (KO)’s beta value is 0.60, and its average true range (ATR) is 1.14.
A comparison of Coca-Cola Co (KO) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. KO showed an intraday change of 0.70% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 17.92%%.
Data on historical trading for Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 17.43 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 17.74 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 4.30 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.77% of Coca-Cola Co’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 72.49% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 33.49 million shares as on 2025-01-15, resulting in a short ratio of 2.03. According to the data, the short interest in Coca-Cola Co (KO) stood at 78.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-01-15; the number of short shares registered in 2024-12-13 reached 34.77 million. The stock has risen by 12.41% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the KO stock heading into the next quarter.
