Consumer Defensive
The Coca-Cola Company(KO)
Data coverage status · 5 need attention
Quote through 2026-08-05T13:30:00Z · Stale
Quote synced 2026-08-05T22:28:26.661554Z
Daily bars through 2026-08-04 · Delayed
Daily bars synced 2026-08-05T03:27:28.928055Z
Fundamentals through 2026-05-01 · Current
Fundamentals synced 2026-08-05T21:39:48.609629Z
Forecasts: Stale
Forecasts synced 2026-04-28T02:08:41.91516Z
Ownership: Missing
Ownership synced 2026-08-05T21:39:48.609629Z
Short interest: Missing
Short interest synced 2026-08-05T21:39:48.609629Z
News through 2026-05-20T10:01:18Z · Stale
News synced 2026-05-20T14:10:42.979503Z
Company profile: Delayed
Company profile synced 2026-05-01T15:54:16.672643Z
Regular-session price
Offline$86.83
+0.31% regular session
1Y Change
+25.36%
Window
Aug 5, 2025 → Aug 4, 2026
- Market Cap
- $337.53B
- P/E
- 24.6
- Trailing
- 52W Range
- $65.35 - $90.92
- Volume
- 15.34M
- 0.6x RVOL
Investment Snapshot
Valuation, growth, profitability, catalysts, and benchmark context.
1D
+0.3%
1M
+4.3%
6M
+11.9%
YTD
+25.2%
1Y
+25.4%
- Market Cap
- $337.53B
- NYSE
- P/E
- 24.6
- Trailing valuation
- Revenue Growth
- +1.9%
- TTM growth
- EPS Growth
- +23.5%
- TTM earnings growth
- Operating Margin
- 29.3%
- TTM profitability
- Forward P/E
- —
- Waiting on consensus EPS
- Next Earnings
- Oct 28, 2026
- In 84 days
- 52W Position
- 84%
- $65.35 - $90.92
- Volume
- 0.6x
- 15.34M shares latest
- Benchmark
- +2.53 pts
- vs SPY over 1Y
- Dividend
- 2.6%
- Last ex-date Jun 15, 2026
Coverage: 250 bars · Aug 5, 2025 → Aug 4, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
The Coca-Cola Company (KO) is a Consumer Defensive stock with listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $86.83 and up 25.4% across the available one-year price window (Aug 5, 2025 → Aug 4, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of +1.9%, EPS growth of +23.5%, a dividend yield of 2.6%. What stands out right now is revenue +1.9%, EPS +23.5%, free cash flow +11.7% with operating margin 29.3% and ROIC 13.8%. The dividend matters to the case here, with a current yield around 2.6%. Valuation sits in the middle of the pack at P/E 24.6 and price/sales 6.8. Stock Foundry combines KO price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Consumer Defensive peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Above sector median
+1.9% vs -3.8% peer median
Operating Margin
Above sector median
+29.3% vs +6.2% peer median
P/E
Above sector median
24.6 vs 14.0 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report landed above expectations
Q2 2026 was reported on Apr 28, 2026 with an EPS surprise of +6.2%.
The operating story is still moving forward
Revenue is running at +1.9% and EPS at +23.5%, with operating margin around 29.3%.
The next real check-in already has a date
The next earnings event is scheduled for Oct 28, 2026, which is the clearest near-term catalyst for confirming whether the current trend is holding up.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 2 reported quarters, the stock averaged +1.4% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 2 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS Delta | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Q2 2026 Apr 28, 2026 | +6.2% | +0.7% | +0.2% | +4.2% |
Q1 2026 Mar 26, 2026 | +2.3% | +1.4% | +2.7% | +2.6% |
Benchmark Edge
KO vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
Relative Read
KO leads SPY
KO is 2.53 pts ahead over the shared 1Y window.
KO had 0.64 pts shallower max drawdown than SPY.
KO beat SPY in 1 of 2 calendar years shown and trailed in 1.
KO
+25.36%
Normalized return
SPY
+22.83%
S&P 500
Excess Return
+2.53 pts
Relative to SPY
KO Max Drawdown
-8.50%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
-9.13%
Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for KO and SPY.
| Year | KO | SPY | Excess | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | +25.23% | +12.67% | +12.56 pts | KO |
| 2025 | +1.48% | +9.40% | -7.92 pts | SPY |
Company Overview
The Coca-Cola Company
New York Stock Exchange
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as 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 Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Dasani, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, and Minute Maid Pulpy brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Leadership
- Henrique Braun
- IPO Date
- Sep 5, 1919
- Employees
- 69.7k
- Street Address
- One Coca-Cola Plaza
- Mailing
- Atlanta, GA, 30313
- Region
- Atlanta, GA, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 404 676 2121
- Last Updated
- May 1, 2026
Statistics & Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 24.6
- EV/EBITDA
- 19.9
- Price/Sales
- 6.8
- Price/Book
- 10.0
Growth
- Revenue
- +1.9%
- EPS
- +23.5%
- Free Cash Flow
- +11.7%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 61.7%
- Operating Margin
- 29.3%
- Net Margin
- 27.8%
- ROE
- 43.6%
- ROIC
- 13.8%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 1.30
- Current Ratio
- 1.36
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Next Step
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