KO

Salt_Tree_7494

I’ll long PEP while I’m short KO ;)

apatheticbear420

Short KO and ABEV and make all your money back.

GhettoMuppet

KO beating SPY

ImNotGoodWithNamesh

KO earnings call next week ive got faith 🔥

babypho

People are so stressed that KO and Tobacco are green.

bulltsla

So KO is basically I verse QQQ, right?

URMomPaysFirMyCalls

I was going to buy the PEP dip at 123 but Mango 🥭 posted how KO is replacing them at KFC so I left it alone

Ok-Run-8643

KO,CVX and OXY hold whatever is going down. This people is doing great!

apatheticbear420

HBAN, NOK calls; KO, PG puts

GhettoMuppet

GLP-1 have already been out though including oral pill and KO is doing great

kvndoom

I made KO dip by owning it. You can look at the chart and see when I sold.

blue2140

Certified genius. Buy $KO

Happy-Champion1661

out of PEP, bought KO puts how tf is KO up 43% in 1y. Is this a fucking AI company or what? You could have 6x on 2028 ATM leaps wtf

HammerDownl

Apple closed green KO closed green JPM closed green. BP closed green LLY closed green Just a sample of what i own that closed green.

exphx23

The selloff was primarily in the tech stocks that were overhyped 6-8 weeks ago. KO hit a new high for the year. News is usually the excuse, not the reason.

Apprehensive_Swan134

You just said it , no investing . Invest in a company that has a clear future . Whats wrong with KO and CLX ? Now KO is overpriced but still . Constant earning . Atleast why not going for ETF almost guarantee to earn atleast 10% a year

Happy-Champion1661

I guess it really is always calls, my TLT/PEP/KO/MCD calls printed big this week LMAO🤌 long bonds short QQQ too easy. Next week buy back in tech. Just be reasonable dude, no need to call this "tImE tHe MaRkEt!!", just dont be regarded perma bol

BeVeracious

Oooh, AAPL, BRK-B, WMT, KO, XOM nice and GREEN today. Pays to diversify doesn't it

Ok-Dealer-9635

killed it on selling KO leap puts last year, expiring soon!

Own-Recipe5908

Never should have sold my KO.

Everyday-Joe-Invests

With the cost of capital rising, investors have been moving money from stocks relying on borrowing to stocks generating profits and cash. For the past 5 days, the following five sectors have been outperforming: * Consumer Staples: up 5.04% * Health Care: up 3.98% * Energy: up 3.64% * Materials: up 3.40% * Financials: up 2.16% Meanwhile, these 4 sectors are down: * Information Technology: down 5.24% * Consumer Discretionary: down 0.62% * Communication Services: down 0.44% * Industrials: down 0.11% Since the S&P 500 is currently less than 5% of all-time highs, the overall market's clearly very healthy. I'm continuing to like names like V, MA, KO, WMT, COST, TJX, JPM. They're not sexy, but they don't have to be....

gopoohgo

JPM, USB, AXP, SMG, PFE, SKT, KO, MAR all up (boomer side of the port)

killamasta

GUH. Your portfolio got KO'd lol. 1 year to lose a few years worth of salaries is insane

Ok_Cry7572

NVDA at ATH? No 😐 $KO Coca Cola is 😂

Charming_Raccoon4361

KO outperformed all the mag7 this year

creemeeseason

I still find it fascinating looking at the performance of KO vs COKE. KO is far more widely discussed and COKE has performed orders of magnitude better.

staynight

My KO positions are absolutely bulletproof

EmpathyFabrication

KO hit new ATH $94

Own-Recipe5908

Lmao, I regret selling my KO last week.

Molten-Helldiver

Never thought COST and KO would be propping the portfolio up…but here we are

bulltsla

When in doubt, buy KO

RS3RRL

dump everything and buy WMT and KO.

Michaelreidhooper

Berkshire Hathaway BRKB and Coca-Cola KO. Solid investments.

Ryan-v-616

KO. Can never go wrong with Coca Cola.

Happy-Champion1661

I always drink KO because that way they make more money so my calls go up and I profit. Drink KO, eat MCD! It's good... for my port!

Standard-Chain2869

Where do you think KO stock could go this week?

Legitimate_Risk_1079

NKE | Nike - Current Price: $34.71 - Bull Target (12–18m): $45–$55 - Bear Target: $25–$30 - Upside: +30% to +58% - Downside: -14% to -28% - Reward-to-Risk: 2.1:1 - Success Probability: 40% - Expected ROI: +5% - Return per 1% Downside: 0.24% - Forward P/E: 25.69 - Debt-to-Equity: 0.50 - 1-Year Return: -47% 🔴 - 5-Year Return: -77% 🔴 - Profitability: Profitable 🟢 - Price Trend: Water slide 🔴 - Risk: High - Conviction: 3/10 - Grade: D+ Nike manufactures athletic footwear and apparel. Strong brand recognition, but deteriorating sales and disastrous long-term shareholder returns make this a turnaround I would avoid. --- KO | Coca-Cola - Current Price: $88.05 - Bull Target (12–18m): $105–$115 - Bear Target: $75–$80 - Upside: +19% to +31% - Downside: -9% to -15% - Reward-to-Risk: 2.1:1 - Success Probability: 70% - Expected ROI: +14% - Return per 1% Downside: 1.17% - Forward P/E: 25.91 - Debt-to-Equity: 1.16 - 1-Year Return: Positive 🟢 - 5-Year Return: Positive 🟢 - Profitability: Profitable 🟢 - Dividend Yield: 2.41% - Risk: Low-Moderate - Conviction: 8/10 - Grade: B+ Coca-Cola dominates global beverages with exceptional brand strength and reliable dividends. Excellent defensive business, but limited upside keeps it below an A-grade. --- HSY | Hershey - Current Price: $162.74 - Bull Target (12–18m): $210–$240 - Bear Target: $125–$140 - Upside: +29% to +47% - Downside: -14% to -23% - Reward-to-Risk: 2.1:1 - Success Probability: 60% - Expected ROI: +15% - Return per 1% Downside: 0.81% - Forward P/E: 17.55 - Debt-to-Equity: 1.30 - 5-Year Return: Negative 🔴 - Profitability: Profitable 🟢 - Price Trend: Weak 🟡 - Risk: Moderate - Conviction: 6/10 - Grade: B Hershey manufactures chocolate and confectionery products. Strong brands and profitability are attractive, but weak long-term shareholder returns and cocoa-cost pressures limit my conviction.

Molten-Helldiver

As dumb as it sounds, I think my KO puts are going to print

spcestonk

Well I do apologize, very happy to see you’ve got a real account and your shit together. 99% of people who would make a post like this it just would’ve been there blown account, throwing their last $5 at the wall hoping for a miracle, I honestly agree with KO’s bullish sentiment, just them getting so excited over a 700% gain and thinking it’s easily repeatable just sounded like another option addict in the making

Own-Recipe5908

Selling my KO rotating into ttwo. Feel like I'm making a mistake, but w/e, if ttwo gets back to highs it'll be worth it.

Molten-Helldiver

PEP is horrid, KO doing so much better 😂

fake212121

KO earned a good reputation of being simple compounder with brand recognition and moat. And some big investors like Buffett keep a huge long term investment that make stock look better from many angles. \-pepsi and other staples u mentioned are more complex

blue2140

$KO is growing and dominating the zero sugar market. It will rally above $100 in 6 months or less.

notreallydeep

>I’m not sure how KO stock is keep growing. I've asked myself this question regarding quite a few stocks and usually they all eventually come back down to reality. That's all I know.

DJTRANSACTION1

2 things that gives pepsi a big disadvantage is 1) they do their own bottling. inflated material cost eats up their already low margins. KO does not have bottling cost inflated and already had higher margins. 2) they also sell frito chips which is doing bad. This section of pepsis business is eating their profits.

jnas_19

When will KO pivot to AI?

kerplunktard

KO ships flavoured syrup concentrate, its the bottlers that have all the additional cost of turning it into the product you see on the shelf, so KO will likely benefit from inflation, they can raise prices more than inflation affects their costs

Fhyzikz

No clue I was just going over the difference between PEP and KO

lOo_ol

Fine, then why does KO has the same forward PE as MSFT, which with less debt grows considerably faster and generates higher operating income?

Fhyzikz

Pepsico is dependent on its large salty snack division and sales are way down. KO just has drinks. Less risky

greenpride32

>How can the market crash if we keep flowing money in there? The amount of money flowing in is miniscule compared to the total market value, or just the bi-weekly or monthly volume in dollar terms. In other words, it is not sufficient to move the market. The SP500 has risen over time because the cumulative earnings, revenues and distributions have also risen over time, adding more value to the index. Also keep in mind the SP500 rotates winners in, and losers out. So as long as there is economic growth amongst publicly traded companies, the index keeps going higher, depsite past members possibly faltering. Just as a simple example, KO used to pay $0.60/share in dividend per year 20 years ago. Today it pays over $2.00/share. Regardless of whether your 401k contributions indirectly purchaesd KO shares or not, somebody is going to pay higher for the shares because the derived value went up. You are also not considering that people at the other end of the spectrum, retired and no longer contributing to 401k, are liquidating rather than accumulating.

No-Paint-5726

KO

37853688544788

No idea what’s gonna happen but the masses need their coke. KO that is.

Erigion

Coke has a revenue 4x larger and twice the net margin of Nike. And more importantly, their revenue is growing. Some KO execs would probably rather die than see their company turn into Nike

EmpathyFabrication

I still think KO is the better buy even at today's valuation and I think KO has the best portfolio of all the bev brands

Popular_Answer_9964

Yes, they have increased their dividends but that doesnt mean their yield has increased which was the point of my comment. If a stock grows every year at 7%, they would need to grow their dividend by something more than that each year for the actual yield to continue increasing as well. KO yield over time- year 2000 = 1.12%; 2005 = 2.78%; 2010 = 2.68%; 2015 = 3.07%; 2020 = 2.99%; 2025 = 2.92% It hasn't always gone up...

Sensitive-Exam649

If stock price goes up, then yield inherently goes down. For stock price to go up and yield go up, then they need to increase their distribution amount regularly. This is nearly unsustainable long term.  And yet may old companes have increased teh dividned yearly for many decades. All the company has to do is to increase there profits a little bit each year to increase the dividend. Coke Cola (KO is an excellent example despite it narrow business focus it haas increased its dividend yearly since long before most of us were born. EPD is another example It is also a MLP like ET and has increased its dividend yearly since its founding in 1998

Swimming-Dingo-9695

Yeah, in 1998... Don't you see the stark difference between these MONSTER AI stocks and tired old MCD and KO? AI doesn't need diesel For comparison, McDonalds market cap is just over 3% of Nvidia's. Those boomer stocks just don't move the market anymore.

Gm9fern

KO at monthly low boys

ArnoldisKing

Buy KO? HD?

URMomPaysFirMyCalls

And KO went up for some reason

PleasantAnomaly

I have a question for those holding US treasury bonds. Why not invest in strong dividend stocks like O, KO, CLX(Clorox), etc... ? Their yield is much better and the dividend isn't at risk at all, you will always have a superior return than Bonds.

Accidental-Genius

I think it should absolutely be considered an element of value, but if it’s the only element in your portfolio when [AI equivalent of Pets.com] bust, you will miss those KO shares you sold. (Proverbial you)

spinwizard69

as far as Penny's go, I have money in ANIX and CYDY which are pharmA that have gone no where. Interestingly my best play has been SOXY an ETF which has gained significantly in price but still provides monthly income. About half my investment in HNST has doubled The only other surprise is KO, purchased to start collecting some dividend income stocks. KO has been going up most of the year. I actually believe HNST is a long term play, but so did I for SOFI which has been a dog of late. I like to support pharma a tiny bit (like less that 1%) but literally have never had a true winner in the sector.

Loose_Hornet4126

New on a drop tonight how high interest rates are and about 🥭 canceling deal. Bulls are getting their calls KO'd

ThatOneRedditBro

There's a part of me thinking that Coca Cola could go up BIG in the months ahead with that Monster Beverage CEO hire. When you look at a ton of DOW stocks, they've all gone parabolic. Coca Cola has still been sluggish. I can see a huge breakout where KO goes up to $200 in a flash.

AliStarr182

Don't listen to the bulls. Check this out [](https://i.imgur.com/KO8UtDB.png)

URMomPaysFirMyCalls

PEP not far from 10yr low and PEP at close to ATH while MCD drilling and sells KO products. Make it make sense

mayorolivia

Bears are so dumb. We played rope a dope today because we’re going to KO them tomorrow and again on Friday for fun after the useless China summit.

minimorsels

KO calls will print

DanTaude599

Fwiw, the issue isn't owning single stocks, it's using today's winners to prove stock picking worked 10 years ago. I keep about 80% in index funds and a small book of LMT, JNJ, and KO because being wrong on one company shouldn't change my retirement date.

Loose_Hornet4126

Top is in. Time for these greedy dumb bulls who were too dumb to profit take to be KO'd this week

khizoa

Meanwhile KO is near ath

SnS2500

[https://www.kiwoometf.com/service/invest/KO04020102T](https://www.kiwoometf.com/service/invest/KO04020102T) Top 20 holdings, plus some discussion of changes... after you translate it from Korean. The S&P index page isn't updated either, but it and Invesco should be up to date tomorrow.

Feralmoon87

but KO is doing pretty well this year

URMomPaysFirMyCalls

If MCD sales are down so much how is KO up as much as it is compared to PEP?

Fhyzikz

Consumer defensives are almost all on a fire sale except KO

availablegangs

I have ten years clean from drugs but I still remember the moment I refused a beer. It was just a little push but I turned it into a life. You will have huge triumphs that are more monetarily significant but won't be as big a deal as the first win. It's a huge deal and you're headed straight for the big time. Have you answered what you got it in? I'm curious what someone in poverty who can't afford to lose it puts their money in. Me: VT/ Google/ SCHD/ FDVV/PM/BOAT/KO and semis and crypto like an idiot 

Bladee___Enthusiast

Feels like a rotation into defensive stocks is inevitable Calls on KO and MCD

ZucchiniOverall9476

Probably a defensive stock honestly. DHR and KO aren't terrible

Federal-Watch

🎶 every night fucks every day, every day patches the night up, on god you should match it. It’s that KO, no white lighters til I fuck my 28th up

Cav829

Yeah, I wasn't quite sold at $280, but I put it on my radar. I stayed patient on DPZ too and waited for that flush to $282-$285. But I miss a bunch of stuff for my dumb patience. Forward P/E I think is fine, but I weigh it in combination with a discounted cash flow analysis. And it's hard to find good quality cash fortress stocks right now that this level of valuation. By that look, it's trading at a 27-28% discount. By multiples analysis, it still could go down another 20%. But if you factor in the dividend over the 12-24 months of a potential bear market, that takes a chunk out of that downside. I'm honestly not really buying into the GLP-1 thing. I heard the same thing on KO and made a ton off of it when it fell to $67. I heard the same thing about DPZ, and it bounced right back to $370 (granted it is down to $311 and it's in a downtrend, so it can go lower). With MCD I think it's more the poor rollout of the new value menu back in April combined with high beef prices. Can't do much about the latter for this year, thus the caveat it can go lower. So i built in a plan to DCA all the way down to $170, as that'd be a full 50% drawdown. But with $200 as my more realistic low, I figured now was a good time to start building a position.

jcpopm

Coke is a perfect example, actually. KO was trading around $25-26 at the time of the dotcom crash, and didn't get meaningfully above that until 2007 (then gave it all back and didn't advance again until 2010). KO from March 2000 to March 2010 gained 9%.

DistributionBroad173

I do. It is a deciding factor. I own PEP not KO, because I drink PEP. KO is a MUCH better stock. I own the utilities I pay money to each month. When I look at consumer companies, I definitely look to see if I buy their brand names.

Rrrandomalias

KOSPI about to be called KO SPY tonight

Collapse1

KO is stronger than ever

yomama_yodaddy

If they drop this its a theta KO for me

SpiderWil

NO cause KO runs the country water supply

CD274

Should have picked KO, the quintessential boomer stock. Or SCHD. Or I mean... Natural gas company tied to AI isn't exactly the right boomer stock pick

captain_casino

Mostly shares but also some calls that worked out on MRVL, KO, COHR and LITE

Upper_Maintenance_41

It's ok for them to be a boomer dividend stock. Just go like KO. 

Cav829

It was my hedge against the market for almost a decade, but then it went parabolic this year and I took a lot of profits on it. Normally KO and PEP would be split better, but PEP has fumbled so much the last few years KO has become too crowded. Now it's at the point I could see a 35-40% tumble if the market crashed when the idea of it is it should hold up much better than the index.

asria

KO is Spy Inverse

Low_Plastic363

I feel like I'm finally starting to figure shit out. All the oil price and bond yields talk made me want to sell my VOO and hide. I left it alone. I had 400 shares of CRDO dump 20% this week. I had been selling CCs on them. I bought them back at a 95% discount, sold my KO that had been running, bought 800 more CRDO to average down, and sold 12 CCs at a much higher strike than my average entry point. Used the premium to stack more VOO. I'm winning when good things happen and I'm winning when bad things happen. You'll notice that is probably because I'm not BUYING any options.

Happy-Champion1661

I don't see a lot of individual stonks making new ATHs in a very long time? is it just me? we used to have Bag7 ATH, semis ATH... feels like now it's just banks and DELL/SNOW? and KO a week ago.

Happy-Champion1661

my only puts are on KO

wf1980

You made several important points, so I'll try to address most of them. All premium sellers are exposed to tail risk, including people selling spreads. Of course, spreads provide more protection, but when you look at the overall profitability, I'm not sure the trade-off is always worth it. Paying the bid/ask spread when entering two legs and then again when exiting can eat into the profitability quite a bit. Managing exposure risk isn't easy, especially on the CALL side. What I try to do is mitigate that risk by selling calls only on very established, relatively low-volatility companies, and only after they've already made a significant move higher—ideally when they're at or near an ATH. I also follow the usual rules, like avoiding earnings and not selling calls after the market has already had a significant selloff. For example, I sold a $KO call a few days ago when the stock was around $91, with a $95 strike. I find it very difficult and highly unlikely (although obviously not impossible) for a company like $KO to gap 100% overnight. And even a 100% gap in this particular case wouldn't blow up my account. Stop losses are indeed my main risk management tool. I understand that when I lose, my losses will be much larger than my average winner. But so far, my small and consistent wins have more than compensated for the losses. For example, I'm winning around 10 trades for every losing trade, but that one loss is typically 4–6x the size of an average winner. I'm not sure if that makes sense, but over time, the results have been very positive so far. The bid/ask spread on options is something we unfortunately have to get used to. There isn't really a solution for it, and when volatility increases significantly, it's a fact that entering or exiting any position will involve much more slippage than usual. Even so, I believe it's manageable. I also want to make it clear that I'm not looking for exorbitant returns. My exposure is generally small and sized according to my capital. If I sell a call on $JNJ, for example, I have at least enough capital to buy 100 shares of $JNJ at the current price. I'm not trying to run this with excessive leverage. And I completely agree that there is no edge in simply selling options indiscriminately. Timing is everything.

Responsible_Knee7632

Personally I rotate DCA between AFL, SYY, ED, NUE, EMR, and KO every week. Not sure if it’s the most optimal but it’s worked out pretty well for me over time

Gm9fern

How KO lookin tomorrow

octopus_serenader

That's like the hawk tuah girl making her own soda and someone thinking it will tank KO.