KO

Icy_Jelly_315

When you own a billion dollars of KO and can chill out on the divis, duh

Molten-Helldiver

KO and chill or cash gang seems like the right call at this point

awetfartruinedmylife

lmao MSFT is tech KO

Bazaruta

This, for the average Joe Is better to DCA, and keep some cash for when it gets nasty. When the stock market is on a melt up that’s when you deploy that cash…if I’m truly scared, I would at most diversify to boring stuff like KO, WMT,etc… Trying to time the market is very hard, even if you dedicate yourself to the financial markets. There is a reason hedge funds don’t just liquidate everything and then load up on the bottom…if they can’t, how can we?

Old_Imagination_2112

That’s why you buy huge MOAT stocks like Union Pacific, P and G, JNJ, KO. I wish they WOULD drop an insane level as I’d buy like a wolf getting steak.

slaxname

KO

undergroundsilver

KO always goes up when markets are down. I think they move money to markets that pay dividends from solid companies

Wowmuchrya

It’s cool to post stuff like this ignoring KO’s dividends while KO will be at 80 EOY and Gold 4000, but yea you do you.

Cullen8228

KO $13(2006) - $74(2026) Gold $600(2006) - $4500(2026) I’ll take gold. You do you

Wowmuchrya

Gold is a speculative asset. Any moron claiming a “safe haven” goes up 100% in 1y is a clown and got baited by MSM just to get dumped on. Safe havens are things like KO that slowly go up over time. If you even took 30s to look at GLD or SLV’s chart literally everyone could see this coming. Both have a 100% hit rate of ending the year red after going parabolic, this time, next time, or any time won’t be different.

crankthehandle

KO was a solid investment, but not a great one.

jentle-music

Park your money at Fidelity (because a bank or credit union might be folding up and you’d lose your money…FDIC is a joke! Plus, banks now have “bail-ins” not bailouts…Google this?)… wait for the market to hit a soft bottom (about 30-40% down from today) and buy stable dividend stocks called “Dividend Kings” (JNJ, WMT, PG, KO, etc) just to get the exposure and experience. Then take some decent investment courses that show you puts, calls, etc. Get educated. Am proud of you wanting to learn saavy investing so your future can be happy.

T-WrecksArms

Calls on KO and XYL. Iran def gonna bomb these desalination plants and bottled water gonna moon like LNG and Oil. Look at the April $80 call volume on KO Friday.

Disastrous-Relief287

It doesn't, that means you had money and a chance while some people would die for that shit. Run your fade, first to KO. Face shots allowed.

Molten-Helldiver

KO and chill?

Jagged_Tide

Evidence: bought KO on March 16th

Jagged_Tide

Serious question: will KO ever recover and when?

StylishEuro

Anyone playing General Mills? These staples are all dumping hard last few years. Surprised GIS hasn't sold off harder like other CPG names. KO held up really well too. These are low IV, so cheapish options

greenpride32

And who do you think owes MSFT/AMZN/GOOGL all that money? It's basically your the entire corporate world which includes your WMT KO NFLX PG JNJ PFE, US government etc.

Roygbiv-Turtle-98

KO blow to Ber anus

Jagged_Tide

Picked up 1 week KO, AMZN and 2 week XOM calls, valid?

Efficient_Pomelo_583

So, Meta should become KO? No more growth, that will surely justify it's PE

PutzOnDonleon

Buying NVDA is like buying KO without the divy

Dude_HaHa

KO and chill

Fine-Will

BABA is now trading at lower PE than KO because of Chyna

Coloradodreaming1

Ha I own all of those, except CELH, ELF, and MU and kicking myself for selling MU early last year and swapping it for index fund SMH. I sold ELF swapping for ULTA. Parts of the portfolio act as a ballast that pay dividends like KO, TGT and MCD and are not expected to take off like MU.

Ok_Upstairs3431

Picked coke mostly as an example here because it first came to mind. I think they are having quite good success with their sugar free options - consumers developing the habit of buying some of their products during covid (cause sure if you dont go out you may buy soda for and get used to that, as eating out is yet to return to pre pandemic highs) its not that consumers pay more then the b2b customers, its just that if the consumer gets the product in a super market rather than a "restaurant"(where drinks are frequently strongly upcarged) its more pure profit for Coke its just that if the consumer only pays the supermarket margin they can afford to consume more and frequently do so. Also KO has a bit of status as a strong dividend payer so retail investors are inclined to "park" their money there; and there is an argument to be made that KO is overvalued but again here I picked it more for examples sake to illustrate the cyclical nature of consumer staples as tastes and trends to change. "share a coke with" was also a super successful campaign

Ok_Upstairs3431

> So where the hell is all that money going? Have you tried reading a balance statement, it tells you how much revenue there is, where it comes from and where it goes. KO is up over the last 5 years, and over the last year and YTD so maybe it's not the industry that is declining but your ability to pick the correct players is. If you for example made an analysis of market share for cola/soft drinks products you could forecast which ones will grow in revenue so you go long those and short their competitors, this way you isolate the impact of your thesis against the sector move, investing is hard I am sorry.

SeaofSounds

The media has pronounced it KO-MAIN-EE for 60 years, why the fuck now is it now HA-MEN-NAY.....go fuck your pronunciation.......calls........

disgusting-puppy

That was a KO

anon18274729

Watching KO and F for a slight reversal

Healingowl

Exxon Mobil XOM, McDonald’s MCD, Johnson & Johnson JNJ, Google GOOG, Coca Cola KO, Amazon AMZN This is the meta.

Molten-Helldiver

KO also

lazylt

I have a -2% spy feeling somehow and im pretty sure that one KO put i have won’t save me

Icy-Selection58

KO for 15 years. It still pays a div. And i still have it

Hotdog_catsup

I’ll suggest two but Nfa KO SCHD

No-Improvement3164

You think things go up in straight lines? Zoom out. KO is up over 50% from its last decent correction.

sylphvanas

I thought divvy stocks like KO and PG were supposed to be safe havens, so why did they dump nonstop this week along with semis 🤔

dataCollector42069

taking my profits on this 679 put right into KO and PM

TNL-Vendetta

What is the american plan for Siemens Energy? Need to decide about my KO before the weekend comes.

banditcleaner2

WMT being priced more richly then some of the major tech titans is really proof that investors are very skittish about the AI trade right now. And there's simply too much money trying to flee into defensive stocks like WMT and KO

Cav829

So the one difference from earlier in the week is defensive stocks are now being sold off. KO, PEP, WMT, VZ, etc. all down to various degrees. WMT in particular is approaching 5% down. Could still end up being a massive rotation.

Shoddy-Usual1070

KO BP MRK WMB T Been good to me

IDrinkSulfuricAcid

Product is extremely easy and cheap to produce, and beloved by the entire world. KO is the pinnacle of a good business

TotalInstruction

Spy poots. Cash out my KO covered calls and reroll. Push buttons, get paid.

TotalInstruction

KO has had a rough week. My covered calls have not.

Wings2493

Absolutely. All the high and mighty KO and VOO gang come out. I have everything space, drones/defense, energy/nuclear, SaaS, biotech, basically every growth stock category that exists and every one of them is getting smoked. Time in vs timing though I guess….

Mahrez-

KO

JSP9686

Maybe focus on more boring steady stocks, e.g. KO. It has been doing well.

Minute_Plastic_350

Good companies, solid financials, reasonably priced price earnings, good gross profit, margin and a moat as big as possible on their products. I won’t be shy with my suggestions, MO, JNJ, KO, MPLX, AAPL, GOOG, RTX, PANW, BKH.

patmccock86

I figured the market would let a headline KO it, but that was such an obvious headline to do it

VictoriaAutNihil

Unless WWIII breaks out, I'll stick with a mix of stable blue chip tech and stable blue chip consumer staple stocks. AMD, AAPL, JNJ, KO like that.

Happy-Champion1661

yeah nice joke lmao, so KO is the new NVDA? or will it go bankrupt as well?

deadfishlog

Sector rotation happened Friday to blue chips. KO, HSY, CCEP etc. retail loses again

shredbmc

US: *bombs a country they are in active negotiations with* Iran: "Fine, you can't use our waters for shipping" US: *Bombs the ships guarding their waters* Some dude with little man vibes on reddit: "Don't fuck with the US we'll KO anyone" Also, same dude: "ReDdIt HiVe MiNd!"

mikemccrea

Honestly don’t fuck with the US… Our military will KO anyone, anytime, anywhere

deadfishlog

Major money was already going into KO, CL, CCEP etc Friday before the close. So at a minimum, retail gets whipsawed by sector rotation.

spinwizard69

Personally if you don't have a lot of cash, penny stocks are a place to loose all of those $$$. If I was tight on money I'd look seriously at income producing ETF's to try to build up that savings. Effectively you let professional options traders build up your resources. Once you are getting several hundred $$$$ a month you can apply the earnings to a variety of stocks including Penny's. More important you have a cash flow that can be applied every month or week, depending on the ETF. Then you need to consider this you can benefit from the mainstream stock market in two ways! The first are companies paying high dividends. The second is high growth stocks that you can resell at a profit. Of course there are modern day technologies such as options trading which have their justification in a balanced portfolio. In the world of Penny's you only really have growth as a way to make good money. However there are other benefits from investing in penny's and that is the potential to drive new technology. For example I have invested in bio-pharma and such in the hopes that one of these companies will come up with new treatments. Here is the frustrating part of penny's and bio-pharma in particular, the successful companies are few and the research cycles are very long. This means there is limited interest in the world of penny's. As far as the rest of the market goes, I'm not going to suggest anything because of the flux in the market. There is rotation out of tech for example but from what I can see there are years of sales lined up in the world of tech. Due to the flux, I literally started investing in $KO (Coca-Cola) at about 10 shares a week, since the start of the year. That Coke money comes from an income producing ETF that I invested in a couple of years ago. I just don't know where the market is going at the moment and I like Coca-cola, plus a reasonable dividend. I just take advantage of an income stream (that is still holding up) that does not impact living expenses. the point is that income stream was invested in a couple of years ago and built up over time. If I get happy with the market I can redirect that income to penny's again.

ElmoLovesGrover

A defensive stock is stock that people buy when they think bad economic times are coming or a stock market downturn is evident. They are stocks that don't drop in market downturn, or drop less than most others. They pay dividends and typically better than average dividends, and can be expected to see more business in an economic downturn. So stocks like the ones I mention above - WMT (Wal Mart), KO (Coke) MCD (McDonalds) are considered defensive plays. Coke is not expensive and people generally won't stop drinking it if we go into a recession. More people will likely shop at WMT in a recssion as they try to save money. Same with MCD - their business goes up as people shift their restaurant purchases from other, more expensive restaurants, to cheaper fast food options.

VictoriaAutNihil

The longer it lasts, the worse it becomes for the markets. I already picked up KO, JNJ, CL & KMB. If my high volatility stocks start declining (AMD, NVDA, AAPL, PANW and a few others), I will unload and go safe with more consumer staple stocks.

ElmoLovesGrover

A few examples to show what is going with big tech these days. These examples can apply to dozens of other tech stocks: MSFT has excellent earnings in late January and sells off big anyway. Capex and software gettign eaten by AI are blamed for the sell off AMZN has excellent earnings a few weeks alter and sells off big too. Can't blame software so blame only CAPEX. NVDA this week has not just excellent, but excellently amazing stupendous phenomenal earnings... and sells off almost 10% over two days. They can't blame AI software fears, can't blame CAPEX (in fact NVDA is making massive bucks off others CAPEX), so they blame the generic catch-all "*valuation*". **Valuation!!** Are you kidding me? Here is NVDA forward PE according to Stock Analysis: 21.52 (note that MSFT and AMZNs forward PEs are 22.4 and 27.2). WMT, KO, and MCD have forward PEs of 43.7, 25.2, 25.8 (many other large cap "defensive" plays have similar PEs). That's right baby - NVDA's forward PE is *half* WMTs.... and people are saying NVDA is selling off because it is *overvalued*!! WMT, KO and MCD are all great companies, but they are not growth companies. It makes sense for them to have forward PEs in the high teens or low 20s. NVDA, AMZN and MSFT continue to grow at rates much, much faster than these three, yet their PEs are the same as the defensive plays no That's where sit right now. People are paying a premium for defensive plays and fleeing big tech growth plays giving many defensive/value plays PEs in the mid 20's (when they are typically in the high teens, low 20s) and giving big tech the same PEs as defensive/value plays.

No-Improvement3164

AI mentioned in an earnings call pumped stocks 20-30% for 2 years and now the mention of Ai has them running for the hills as KO MCD WM JNJ CL PG all continue in a 10 -20 year up trend.

NotmeitsuTN

It is all in IRA - so no spending- I'm fairly settled, house, car etc , didn't do this cause I was struggling. Strat has been " what stock would I buy" then go long with an option. Everything was about a yearish out, but when they went up and the option went up more I profited. So except for a IBIT gamble that was a small one, I have been rolling, MRVL, BA, KO, CLX, EWY......now waiting on ADBE to show it won't be crushed by AI. Then I'll get after it.

3ebfan

KO and META don't have market caps that are already 20% of US GDP

VOO_bull_forever

# KO has a higher forward P/E than NVDA and META. # Healthy market.

ElmoLovesGrover

Yeah, I've learned to be very cautious when doing that on pennies and rarely do it anymore. Works well with large established companies. If WMT, KO, or DD dips, they will come back if you wait long enough. A penny dips and odds are good it will keep on dipping, and reverse splitting, and diluteing, etc.

EuphoricWizard

Eventually they have to stop buying KO LMAO.  Gonna get to +40% in 3 months YTD if tech crashes 

paranoidspectator

I believe he means companies like Coca Cola (KO), GE aerospace, BALL, and banking industry like BAC

spac420

KO'd by Burry

MichaelJamesBurry

Just invest in KO guaranteed returns

u_spawnTrapd

interesting mix. I get the appeal of pairing steady dividend names like O, JNJ, and KO with something higher upside like BTC. Only thing I’d be careful about is counting crypto yield as the same quality of income as dividends from established companies. The risk profile feels very different, especially if the goal is to fully live off it in a year or two. Curious how you’re thinking about downside scenarios. If we hit a rough market or crypto drawdown right when you’re planning to rely on the income, would you scale back or keep riding it out?

Drugsandstufflol

Lol a lot of us were it’s called having a basic understanding. I loaded up KO in case this scenario played out

Sirellia

BB width yeah — bandwidth dropping below its historical range for that stock. The squeeze detection is the easy part though, the grading is where it separates. Same bandwidth level on NVDA means something completely different than on KO

Jagged_Tide

Make sure to buy some $KO to enjoy with your popcorn at the SOTU tonight regards

Independent_Name_601

There is more to a bubble than P/E. It’s the underlying fundamentals - if it was just P/E the market would avoid anything over a certain P/E. The reason it is “tech” - despite being the darling, is that a lot of money is flowing into companies that produce no revenue or limited revenue. In the distant past this was the biotech space only (pre-90s). People betting on a new cure and future revenue pipeline. Modern day there is a lot of companies doing R&D that may lead to a future AI tool or program. Claude is the first ripple in this because it claims to be able to do all that and more, like correct code. Making a lot of these companies obsolete before they have a chance to prove their concept. If this disrupter has teeth those companies would see mass exodus of funds as investors see a better vehicle. This will implicate the earnings and valuations of the larger AI (stable companies) as they will start reporting less than stellar earnings because of the drop. This in turn will force investors to sell before a falling knife event. Then people invested in those companies up top will say “why would I want to invest in a 25 P/E KO when NVDA just dropped from 45 P/E to 30 P/E.” This is where stupid money will flow into NVDA - but once they realize it was a liquidity trap that’s when the bubble will burst. And it will be too late for them to get out before a crash. What people are worried about with Claude and can impact the markets. So that’s my take on why the bubble is still tech despite your hyper focused example noted above. The stalwart tech companies have a complex connection to the rest of the AI ecosystem and is much for fragile than their quarterly performance is telling us.

VOO_bull_forever

# $KO forward P/E: 25 # $PG forward P/E: 23 # $MSFT forward P/E: 22 # $META forward P/E: 21.6 # --> there is a bubble, but not in tech

Homeless-Coward-2143

If I had spare cash this would be such an opportunity. The value of these companies is in their size, history, advertising. Even if Claude can make better software, who's going to pay the billions required to dethrone the already existing companies. It's like if you were to "solve" coca cola's ingredients, you don't just suddenly replace coca cola on everyone's shopping list. You then need 100 years of Christmas advertising, etc., and then you can start to challenge KO. It's so dumb. Not to mention that this shit can't code. It cannot add numbers together FFS.

kool_mandate

lol into PG , KO, , LLY, MCD, VZ, GIS This is textbook It’s basically automated , triggered panic selling in best of class growth companies into value. But once pessimism is baked in, the panic buying back in will follow, and no one will give you a heads up “it’s time to buy CRWD again “ first Because the same people having to answer to angry clients about capital preservation are the same people that lose angry clients if they underperform This is where retail can have an edge

Jericho3434

What are you talking about? Value investors are killing it. Boring KO is doing better than 99% of these ‘tards portfolios.

dataCollector42069

Bought MSTR 129 puts at $130 today sold at 123.75 :). Used gains to buy more KO and picked up uber eats :)

Jagged_Tide

Do we think XOM and KO are hedges against the market? In my experience, they seem to behave that way

No-Improvement3164

You could have bought KO and you bought Microsoft. 😂😂😂

spinwizard69

It is a strange pull back. I'm going to worry about this tomorrow when I should have some cash in the account. Lately I've been buying $KO a few shares every week to get some more robustness in my portfolio. The goal is a bit of quarterly dividend income, from hopefully a stable company. My "growth" investments have gone the wrong way.

spinwizard69

It is not all down and out of all of my portfolios, I actually have two stocks up. One being Coke, $KO and the other $CYDY. CYDY is one of my pharma speculation / gambling stocks that normally slides with the market. Very Weird day.

EuphoricWizard

This is what boomers felt like in this tech market.  Watching mag7 dump everyday while trash like WMT & KO go green everyday for 2 months with regarded PEs on no growth companies 

Lopsided_Process5141

If you had a few hundred shares of KO and JNJ you'd be weathering the storm just fine.

Fearless_Strike5651

Yeah you’re right SCREW tech I want Walmart at 40 PE. Shit while I’m at it I think I’ll buy Costco and KO at ATH and sell MsFT at $390. 😂

blackdog543

Remember, Warren Buffett is the King of "Let it sit and hold on for 40 years." He's a huge billionaire. You should sell half the Tesla stock, a little at a time, and diversify. The stock has had wild swings, and you should NOT be left seeing it gone, like my mom did with Sun Microsystems a 10k investment went to 300k, and back down to 10k again. Sadly, we're eventually, within 4 years most likely, going to experience a Recession. The DOW 30 is a great place to buy, stocks like Coke (KO), Chase Bank (JPM), Caterpillar (near all time high, wait for it to go down 200 a share), PG, and the NASDAQ for Nvidia, and the rest of the Mag 7. Build some cash though, open a brokerage account at Charles Schwab or Fidelity so you can trade AND MOST IMPORTANTLY watch their daily movements. And then, forget you have it. Buy dividend yielding stocks when you see the market drop with your cash. If you can not touch it, or even add to it, you'll likely be retired by the time you're 50.

Prize-Feature2485

It is more expensive than NVDA. This will not hold up once the market falls, is anything but a defensive stock. I could take KO , PEP, CVX even MO is a better pick.

dvdmovie1

"-At first i've bought 50% S&P500 at all time high using a lump sum, then immediately that started crashing last year with trump's tariffs. Sold at a loss and bought again at a higher price later. " Don't buy high sell low then buy high later. You want to use periods like last April as opportunities and be buying what people are puking, not be one of the people puking up your portfolio. Have a reasoning behind every investment you make and have that reasoning be at least medium-term. I've said before that last April at the bottom if you were thinking "what is this going to do in the next 24-48 hours?" you weren't going to be a buyer. If you were thinking, "in 6-12 months, I'll probably be happy with these buys" you were buying. "Stay away from the S&P500/World ETF as i believe they're going to crash more thanks to trump's politics and his new Fed chair." If you think the US market is going to crater then other areas aren't going to somehow be immune from that. I think international can outperform and lean more international but am definitely still long the US. "-10% bought recently into consumer's sector (half Amazon at a discount right now and half Walmart even if it has high PE, it's reliable long term)" Walmart is about as expensive as it's been in decades. It is benefitting from this economic environment and continues to take share from TGT, but that's priced in at this point. If something happened to change that, could be a considerable decline in something people consider a conservative investment. AMZN has underperformed MCD and KO over the last 5 years and Jassy has not been the Bezos replacement people hoped for. Probably overdone to the downside at this point but too many people keep "collect 'em all"-ing Mag 7 out of habit. "10% MSCI Canada ETF" There's specific names in Canada that I think are compelling but would not invest in Canada broadly. "+Microsoft+Google+Netflix " MSFT meh, Google good. Mag 7 has become the Mag 2 or 3 tops. "-10% emerging markets ETF -10% South Korea ETF -10% Europe Stoxx 600 top companies ETF" Fine. " Avoiding heavy exposure in China/India/Japan markets because of the high risk." Japan is having a great year. "Keep portfolio diversified 50-50 between ETF's and stock picks which previously demonstrated in graphs higher resistance against cyclicality and stock market crashes." Walmart isn't going to demostrate that if anything that has caused its recent run slows even slightly. AMZN cratered in 2022. NFLX lost 70% off the highs of 2021. You're not buying things that are going to avoid a downturn with the above. "A diversified portfolio you're not swapping and rotating cash frequently, would be profitable long term." This is good, but I don't know that there's a clear strategy with what you picked aside from gold, and no US aside from household names, some of which haven't done all that great in the last 5 years. "Also i'm avoiding biotech/pharma" I don't know that I'd avoid a sector like healthcare just because you lost money on a couple of stocks.

theipd

There are so many stories I could tell on this front but I’ll just say that if you get assigned AAPL GOOG FB NVDA PG KO then yes this type of stock is a sure bet to come back and you can dollar cost average your way to Nirvana. But when the stock is speculative you’re essentially asking the Vatican to keep you in their prayers. For me it’s not worth it. I can make the loss up somewhere else. I think that some CSP evangelists fail to talk about the stock quality when they’re recommending high premium names. Or the story behind the premium. The deltas are usually about .45 or more and everything looks rosy until about the time for expiration when all hell breaks loose and you’re suddenly in a dilemma of paying 3x what you bought it for or just DCA ing it after assignment. The problem is that many of these names won’t come back. They keep tanking. Or in the case of one stock this week they do some crazy shenanigans like a reverse split. Long post to say. BUY QUALITY.

miata_only

Pop/Soda Pop $KO

Jagged_Tide

KO pump is imminent 

Previous-Device-4604

KO

Big-Quote4483

ofc MSFT would trade lower than fucking KO and WMT stock that has single digit growth. MSFT should start selling drinks maybe it will skyrocket

piszczel

LLY is up 2% today, KO is up nearly 1%

gkdjsl

KO still up 14% YTD. Delicious, crisp and iconic Coca-Cola. But instead you chose to invest in dogshit semiconductors to fill up horrible datacenters to create photorealistic videos of Sideshow Bob twerking.

LarsTarkas

I got KO, WMT and XOM calls. For once I have made the correct play (unless this shit dumps on open)

underroad01

$TSM, $AAPL, $NVDA Nah just kidding, I don’t see a lot of love for $KO, but they’ve treated me well over the years. Also have done well with energy company $NI.

Big-Quote4483

lmao how is KO trading higher than MSFT