KO

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

banditcleaner2

going to see a repeat soon where mcdonalds beats next quarter but it will be only because of price increases, not real growth. just like KO

Own-Wolverine-5361

You play like you have no balls and put money on shit like KO

Nightkill02

SPY? KO? If you wheel on a comapny like hood you deserve to lose your ass

Big-Quote4483

lmao the mag 7 being dumped is all bs to shake retail out. like KO is more expensive than msft lmao

Keizman55

First thing is I only trade companies that I understand what they do and how they make the majority of their money. Next, I am a Fidelity customer so I use their resources and check what the analysts recommendations are. If they don’t align with my view I try to see what I am missing. I also use their screener to filter on the major variables that others have listed but am not strict on those unless some negative really stands out. I also read or listen to their earnings calls and have alerts set for any news on their tickers. I picked up AMAT a few months ago and had a good understanding of their business and have done really well with it, wish I had trusted myself enough to hold through earnings overnight. My other tickers that I have done well with here and there are V, GS, KO, MA, MSFT, COST. I try to avoid holding through earnings because I got burnt with Costco - was 100% right on fundamentals but earnings call comments killed it (“…something, something, something, expect tariff headwinds…”)

ThinkingOfTheOldDays

KO had a 45 p/e during the tech bubble and Daddy Buffett thought that would last too Said later not selling was one of his big mistakes 

Happy-Champion1661

yes, since defensive consumer and energy went to the moon, healthcare also pretty good past couple months but KO and friends are overbought, they stopped going up since couple of days, so now there is truly nothing left to buy

VictoriaAutNihil

Actually I'm doing okay with XLP, JNJ, KO, MO, CL. I also own some high flyers that have been getting their asses kicked of late, but consumer staples has evened things out a bit.

CUbuffGuy

boomers who forgot they own DJ and KO from 30 years ago

eudaimonia_dc

Just put cocaine back in the formula and watch KO become the biggest company in the world. Hey KO......I'm available if you need a new CEO.

Immediate_Poem_7393

i don’t get the KO put alongside the UVIX call play

LumpyShock9656

Yeah alright you sound smart now look at all the tech stocks in a bear market. If all the "smart money" wasn't rotating in 50 PE Costco. 48 PE WMT and KO, and GE, this shit would be much lower

Blade3colorado

Fair question and I again asked AI (Gemini) the same question, i.e., I asked, "Is this statement true or false, "Amazon has been outperformed over the last 5 years by McDonald's, Coke and JNJ. MSFT has been outperformed by Phillip Morris, Walmart, Waste Management and Exxon over the last half decade." This is what it said: Based on data through **early 2026**, the statement is **False**. While it is true that slow-growth, defensive stocks like McDonald's (MCD) or Coca-Cola (KO) sometimes outperform tech stocks over very short timeframes (like the 2022 market downturn), the statement is false over a 5-year **total return** horizon (which includes reinvested dividends). Here is the data-driven breakdown: # 1. Amazon (AMZN) vs. MCD, KO, JNJ Amazon has significantly outperformed these consumer staples over the last five years. * **Amazon (AMZN):** Has benefited from massive growth in Amazon Web Services (AWS) and e-commerce dominance, resulting in a **higher total return** despite a sharp drop in 2022. * **Staples:** While McDonald's, Coke, and Johnson & Johnson are stable income generators, they have grown at a much slower rate. # 2. Microsoft (MSFT) vs. PM, WMT, WM, XOM Microsoft has dramatically outperformed this group over the last five years. * **Microsoft (MSFT):** Driven by cloud computing (Azure) and the integration of AI, Microsoft has been one of the market's best performers. * **The Comparison:** * **Walmart (WMT):** While performing exceptionally well for a retailer, it has not matched Microsoft's returns. * **Exxon Mobil (XOM):** Despite a massive surge in energy prices, Exxon's 5-year total return is still lower than Microsoft's. * **Waste Management (WM) & Philip Morris (PM):** These are stable, slower-growth stocks that have not kept pace with the tech sector.

Few-Tax4386

Confused why KO does so much better than PEP

LarsTarkas

Long KO calls have been serving me very well

EuphoricWizard

KO, WMT, COST, XOM trading at higher multiples than big tech.  Boomer Buffet would be selling his dividend trash to buy undervalued tech 🤣😂🤣😂

Happy-Champion1661

full port KO and WMT @ $80 and $130 what could go wrong full port puts on these I mean

Happy-Champion1661

bers r retarded, they would buy KO at $80 and WMT at $130 thinking it's a good deal while dumping AMZN under 200

Sufficient-Aide6805

KO and JNJ calls are keeping me alive rn

EmpathyFabrication

KO hit $80. New ATH what a run YTD

NotmeitsuTN

I hear you. But KO is hardly a wild play as a "safe ish" play

Happy-Champion1661

mom, I don't like this casino, it's not fun anymore :( can we go to Mcdonalds? I'd order a KO and a PEP

Moustachiou

Research ETFs and Index investing , set it and forget it. You are are18 years old, Penny stocks are basically gambling for you!!! that 1845$ could go to zero if fully invested in penny stocks. Look into SCHD ,VTI, VOO, REIT, bonds (BND) and diversify with like international ETF. You can also buy some individual stocks like HOOD, BE, PLTR, RBLX, Apple, Amazon, or Microsoft. Pepsi, KO, Solid business. forget about the bubble , market will adjust and correct eventually..... You could also consider Joby or Archer if you’re interested in emerging technology, but only after doing proper research. They’re still speculative, but way better than whatever you’re doing with penny stocks. For the love of God or the universe, whatever you believe in , sell your penny stocks and invest accordingly. With your high-yield savings account already in place, you can focus this account on growth ETFs and index funds instead.

MichaelJamesBurry

when in doubt invest in KO

Trizzz-y

Looking for short swings on WMT, LMT, and KO.

spinwizard69

You will not like this but if you are in college Penny stocks are stupid. Even if you are filthy wealthy they are stupid, your account should be generating fun money or at least paying for condoms. First off any investment you do needs to be researched by you, don't take suggestions from the peanut gallery do your DD. Nothing on this forum is good advice, even the suggestions I'm going to make. I'd certainly consider a reliable income fund that pays weekly. $1800 isn't going to get you much in the way of shares, but you might be able to work out something that pays you $30 a week in fun money. Yeah that doesn't sound like much but a little cash is better than no cash. The other option is to put in into a market growth fund and don't even look at it for 4 years. Well other than to make more deposits. Done right this fund could be your base fund for when you are out of school working full time. Build wealth in that fund and play the penny's by them selves. This take discipline and frankly it is a good reason to have two brokers. Literally have a "retirement" account, at a brokerage, that is one way, and a trading account someplace else. Here is the thing, most people playing penny's don't make a lot of money and many lose huge amounts of money. The reason is simple they are addicted to it just like some are addicted to Whisky. I never considered Penny's at all until a retired as I never had a surplus of cash that I felt like throwing away. Now I have a little surplus and frankly I put that into various pharma stocks. Making money would be nice but ending cancer and other diseases would be wonderful. Yes I have a portfolio of other stocks, but that is for retirement, gambling is kept under a few percent. Believe me pharma,, especially bio-tech research, is a gamble - so far zero profits. Now don't get me wrong there are lots of stocks beyond pharma, anything related to space will likely be long term buys with a lot of volatility. By the way another option is to buy single stocks noted for dividends. $1800 will not get you many shares but hopefully you can chose one for keeping the dividend every year even in there is an economic down turn. For example Coke-Cola is around $79 with a fifty cent dividend. If you purchased 2 shares a week for 20 years you would have 2080 shares paying you a good dividend every quarter. Not enough for retirement but it is part of a plan. Sure the price of KO might go up and down but you are not buying for price movement in this case. All you care is that the dividend check comes every quarter. You could give yourself a head start with the remaining bucks and buy 20 or so shares. You can also buy dividend producing ETF's but I'm not convinced that such ETF's make sense for dividend investing. The point I'm trying to make here is that penny's are the wrong place to focus your attention at the moment. Work on college, study a bit and find at least two girl friends. Get a job, Mary one of those gals and start to work hard on your financial future. Actually while in college see if there is a course, seminar or something that cover persona finance and wealth management. The more you know the sooner financial freedom comes. In the end avoid the idea of putting everything in one theme. I hear about these all in people, be it Tesla, NVIDIA or whomever. Going all in on anything is stupid and can really put you behind if something goes wrong. Start building a base level of security and then work the wild ends of finance.

Big-Quote4483

yeah KO is a way better stock

No_Current3675

MSFT has a lower PE than KO.

Big-Quote4483

lmao even KO is doing better than pos amazon

banditcleaner2

"If they can take market share from Canva then are very much undervalued. If they can't and all they can do is doing price hikes on UX designers, then are overvalued. As you see, there is a lot of execution risks with figma. I don't know which scenario is gonna play out." Lol, tell this concept to fucking $KO. They've basically only been able to increase their revenue by price hikes. Yeah they have some more healthy drinks or whatever, but we all know their revenue increases have come from increasing soda prices. And $KO has been just fine. $FIG probably will be too.

EuphoricWizard

WMT, XOM, APPLE, KO.  All the boomer trash goes straight up all day/year everything else down 🤮

no_simpsons

I would do a chat with copilot or a similar AI model and talk about equal risk unit weighting. These stock picks should be sized to normalize their volatilities, not on an equal dollar basis. KO needs more $ allocation and MSFT and GOOG less. KO moves a smaller % each day since it's less volatile. In order to maximize your diversification, they could all contribute to the daily % change equally.

trader_dennis

The trade of the year is going to be HALO stocks. Heavy assets low obsolescence stocks. Companies like delta or KO have that will receive tailwinds to their heavy asset business but LLMs will support optimization of their business. Their multiples will continue to re rate in the positive way. Software still has a way to go before it hits bottom. Total multiple re rating. Think newspapers post 2002 just to a lesser extent. Ciber software should rebound as this will still be important to all companies. is safe and should

Xzlk

There’s an inflection point where Lilly’s GLP-1 is so good that you can eat all the McDonald’s you want and be fine. Is this priced in? $HSY? $KO? Fatty boombatty calls?

leeuwvanvlaanderen

$KO K.O.’d

MagicJuggler

KO was extremely overbought over the last few weeks, and is due for correction.

yodamelon

Buffett retires and now KO has a demand problem. Coincidence?

Fantastic-Clock-8603

Damn KO is that safe haven we deserve?

ballmode

KO dip

FearlessButterfly3

$KO missed revenue. Oh man lol

pil0tinthesky

okay 🏆🏆🏆 buy QQQI WAR and KO 🏆🏆🏆 they are stocks they have gone up in price since 20 years ago

captain_casino

I like KO but you're a long ways away from the right page

rounding-errors

Calls on KO

ThichGaiDep

You're in the pennystocks subreddit and you're asking about Coca Cola? $KO's a permanent long term winner.

Available-Range-5341

That already happened?! I have been swing trading consumer staples for years and utilities and stocks like AMGN, JNJ, PG, CLX, CL, PEP, KO, all got overpriced/upper end of their ranges so I sold two weeks ago. Where you been!

Moepenmoes

Spy 700 this week, time to KO the bers

EvolvingDior

KO is the one to play.

intothesunss

KO and SPOT are gonna have a bad time, i can feel it

Three_of_a_kind3515

Calls on DDOG.. 114 strike.. and if KO does anything like what Pepsi did last week.. calls on KO.. unless you believe the Superbowl commercials and the Coke Cola bears are secretly drinking Pepsi and got caught on the kiss cam at a concert… what a great commercial Pepsi.

Neat-Voice2456

The problem is that the valuations don’t reflect that. Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon are all cheaper than KO, WMT, COST, PG, CVX, and tons of other low growth companies.

Few_Challenge2557

some of the tech stocks are considered blue chips though. If you mean like JNJ or KO maybe, but i dont see the appeal as they dont have much growth anymore. Investors want high growth companies, the next big thing, not something that will give them 2% to 4% every month.

Happy-Champion1661

what's wrong with exit liquidity btw, people screaming cuz they don't want to buy the top but the dip and now is exactly the time that there's ton of tech on sale for "cheap" just buy your favourite stonk at a discount and chill, MSFT -27%, META AMZN AVGO AMD -20%, PLTR -35%, NFLX -40% ... MU and GOOGL are about 10% from ATH if you don't want to buy the dip, defensive/energy have already run up 15% in the month of january and they are ATH (fucking KO went +17% in 1month LMAO)

Affectionate-End2461

2 days ago was a guy yoloing AMZ calls. Now this! FDA just KO Hims! Either Wendy or Lamborghini eh!

PureImbalance

My knockout leveraged options were at zero this morning (EU), thankfully the KO is pegged to the US price and it had recovered before open but man was I sweating bullets 

EuphoricWizard

WMT, T, KO, any boomer dividend stock in the S&P

StockCasinoMember

Majority going into SPY/VOO. TQQQ secondary. Gonna let all of the individual stocks get hammered more before I start buying them. All the individual stocks that I was buying over the last few months are all up now and I’ve started selling them. XOM, VZ, KO etc..

2CommaNoob

New unknown fed chair and questions concerning AI capex. Those two are big enough to wrecked the majority of the market outside of boring shit like walmart, KO, Berkshire. We got accustomed to JPow fucking our puts so we knew he'd always have our back to buy the dip. We have no idea how this new fed will do. Barclays put out a note that says markets drop about 16% when I new chair is sworn in....

Affectionate_Age752

I've made 22% since January 1st, on a $140k portfolio. Went from $141k to $172k in 5 weeks. . Made it daytrading. MU, LLY, SMCI, TSM, Apple. Couple others. Bought KO a few days ago, waiting for the earnings call. I don't get greedy, I don't gamble on options. This isn't a get rich quick scheme. I focus on making a couple percent a week. £2k-$3k adds up. Made almost $10k in one day with the SMCI gamble. Waiting to see how far this drop will continue, especially the tech stocks. I don't hold anything long with this current administration. After I sell KO next week, I'll probably sit in cash to see how things shake out over the rest of the month.

Mnshine_1

The real fun is ehen S&P gets downgrades, and then no KO or other staples will save anyone 😭

hiphopanonomos

Some big winners this year have been CVX WMT KO PG all defensive strong companies great earnings, boring, never discussed on here and immune to all the AI tech crypto bullshit going on

Wings2493

Microsoft and Nvidia yet this sub likes to tell everyone they just buy meme stocks. Critical minerals/rare earths, energy/nuclear, bitcoin, gold/silver, space, drones, healthcare, it’s all absolutely tanking 20-40% in a week to a month. Yet you’ll be told but the S and P is only down 4%! I’d love to know how many people here actually 100% VT and KO lol.

CouchPotatoFamine

As a long time holder in UPS, VZ and KO, I thank you for your sacrifice.

Matt2_ASC

KO has been acting like a safe haven

ThermalChaser

KO is the only thing I have that's green today 😞

StockCasinoMember

Long term DCA, swing trades, and day trading is where it is at. Last few months I was buying O, VZ, KO, XOM, T, and others when those were getting bitch smacked. Now I’m slowly selling those. Now I am going to continue to DCA into SPY/VOO mainly and slow DCA into TQQQ. I bought some bitcoin and Mara today for long term hold. Could care less what the market does. I’ll continue to DCA daily.

ContemplatingGavre

Yes, look at KO over the past few months.

AfraidAnalyst

Well, was that the top? Are we all doomed into buying KO until whatever the next bubble is?

ThermalChaser

KO

Glam34

Plenty of green on my watchlist. KO, MNST, CASY, PG, CPB

FelixEvergreen

KO hit an all time high today. I’ve got that going for me which is nice.

Equivalent-Coat-7605

I was about to before it popped. Had it back in 23 and it was stuck and I sold for like 2%. Saw it run up when I got some free cash again and I was too late. Decided to buy some Merc and BMY to try and ride a bit of the medical wave. They paid out decently. Just sitting on a semi decent position of KO at a $56 cost basis. The further it goes up the more I’m trimming until I hit full coverage

LumpyShock9656

How high can defensive stocks go? Like KO isn't going to grow as fast as META ffs

dataCollector42069

A month ago, someone predicted a bear market and full ported into KO (Coke) - turned out to be a pretty good play.

RustyGriswold99

I'm not exactly sure what you're trying to argue at this point. Consumer staples outperforming during a downturn is literally the market agreeing with me, not you. Money rotating into WMT, KO, PEP, and MCD is a defensive move, it's investors saying "the consumer is under stress so I'm going to hide in companies that sell things people can't stop buying regardless of economic conditions." That's not a exactly a sign of a booming economy. Your original point was that stores are busy, stocks are up, and there's no reason to sell. If that were true, you'd see money flowing into discretionary and growth (SBUX, LULU, NKE), not into Campbell's soup and Pepsi.

Hopeful-Climate-3848

MCD and KO now trading at higher forward multiples than MSFT.

AdQuick8612

Coca-Cola. $KO and value. Not everything is selling off.

kktvMIN

K-shaped economy is not news though. Consumer stocks such as CPB, MCD, PEP, WMT, KO have been up (even skyrocketed) against the market downturns.

bionicvapourboy

Consumer staples and dividend payers I'm thinking. CPB, WMT, KO, UL, and WM are all trending up in the past month.

xXFoxyGrandpaXx

Everyone rotating into KO

LarsTarkas

The only call I got this week is KO and it's printing

ebabz

The ticket is KO

ClueWeary9098

Warren Buffet is sipping his KO and laughing

regardraging

Google speed running it's path to PE50+ without needing any help from the speculators. A few years more of this and the depreciation will eat the EPS alive but when your core product is in an existential crisis might as well burn the money to show the investors you're serious about the state of things. Gone are the software darlings with massive earnings and tiny capex, brave new world. Just need the KO from the nerds who figure out how to run sufficiently competitive models locally on their machines sometime in the next 5-10 years, that should ignite a fire of eventual write downs on this money burning operation.

QuartersToPlay

WMT and KO holding my port up like atlas.

OMFGROFLMAO2

There's a reason MCD, KO, and PEP are breaking ATHs... take the hint

BahtMann

My thesis is considering that "AI winner" doesn't matter short term as we're seeing a tech rotation -> whatever boomer stocks exist, like NKE or KO