Before Buying Coca-Cola Co (NYSE: KO) Stock, Read This First

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Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) shares, rose in value, with the stock price up by 0.63% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $71.18.

Actively observing the price movement in the recent trading, the stock is buoying the session at $70.74, falling within a range of $70.82 and $71.305. The value of beta (5-year monthly) is 0.575 whereas the PE ratio is 28.93 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 0.44% over the past month.

With the market capitalization of Coca-Cola Co currently standing at about $306.34 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-10. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 1.96, with its dividend yield at 2.76%.

Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 47.93B, 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 11.23B.

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 100% Buy on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Buy 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 4.77, with the price of KO currently trading nearly 1.51% and 5.21% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 60.73, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.57% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 1.83%. Furthermore, Coca-Cola Co (KO)’s beta value is 0.47, 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 0.63% in today’s session so far, and over the past year, it grew by 17.58%%.

Data on historical trading for Coca-Cola Co (NYSE:KO) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 17.23 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 17.82 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 73.30% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 38.27 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 1.88. According to the data, the short interest in Coca-Cola Co (KO) stood at 90.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 42.89 million. The stock has risen by 14.33% 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.

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