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WMT, T, KO, any boomer dividend stock in the S&P
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..
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....
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.
The real fun is ehen S&P gets downgrades, and then no KO or other staples will save anyone 😭
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
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.
As a long time holder in UPS, VZ and KO, I thank you for your sacrifice.
KO has been acting like a safe haven
KO is the only thing I have that's green today 😞
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.
Yes, look at KO over the past few months.
Well, was that the top? Are we all doomed into buying KO until whatever the next bubble is?
Plenty of green on my watchlist. KO, MNST, CASY, PG, CPB
KO hit an all time high today. I’ve got that going for me which is nice.
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
How high can defensive stocks go? Like KO isn't going to grow as fast as META ffs
A month ago, someone predicted a bear market and full ported into KO (Coke) - turned out to be a pretty good play.
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.
MCD and KO now trading at higher forward multiples than MSFT.
Coca-Cola. $KO and value. Not everything is selling off.
Consumer staples and dividend payers I'm thinking. CPB, WMT, KO, UL, and WM are all trending up in the past month.
Everyone rotating into KO
The only call I got this week is KO and it's printing
Warren Buffet is sipping his KO and laughing
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.
WMT and KO holding my port up like atlas.
There's a reason MCD, KO, and PEP are breaking ATHs... take the hint
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
KO is a ALL TIME HIGH! This is never a good sign for tech and high beta
It's goving KO hunting! Your puts and calls both will be fucked before it moons
People not afraid of Diabetus anymore, long KO and LLY
Because there are 500+ stocks in SPY. Look at stuff like PEP, KO, WMT, CVX, etc. The money is going into traditionally defense stocks.
Every food stonk I follow except COKE is up but KO is also up.
RSP KO and CVX. Best offense is a good defense
I own a lot of KO, but my KO shouldn't be trading at a higher P/E than NVidia lmao.
Not a bear market for S&P, but for tech it seems likely. It's just rotation. Look at KO - new ATH
EMR Electric up 3.5% after earnings. KO at an all-time high. VZ is soaring. ...is 2026 going to be the year of the Boomer stock?
On the bright side, KO and PEP are soaring.
true, i try to tell young dividend investors this but they dont listen. Its better to have a 1-1.5% yield on a growth portfolio that grew to $2-3 million than a 3-4% dividend yield on a portfolio that only grew to $500k. But dividends can definitely outperform depending on which companies you chose tbh. Like CAT or KO for example. Yield of cost is a kinda dumb metric but: warren buffet put around $1 billion into KO and receives $750 million a year in dividends. Id rather choose growth companies that’ll likely retire and push out great dividends if I was focused on dividends later on.
But KO on the other hand, im trying to not dwell on it lol
This is really a boomer 💩 hole market. Buy Trash like KO, WMT, At&T, boomer rocks, and stay away from tech 🤮
Pepsi is going to crash tomorrow btw. KO has been destroying its competition. Fairlife protein drinks are getting new flavours. KO soon going to $100
Coca-Cola isn't immune to drops that can be worse than bonds. Take 2018 for example: https://testfol.io/?s=cIrTrwNAYcY Less than 3% drawdown for VBTLX compared to worse than 13.5% for KO. 2007/2008: https://testfol.io/?s=3JxlUIar3gd Bonds were a little better than 6% for max drawdown, KO was worse than 36% drawdown. You can add VTSMX to either year and near the bottom find the tab for correlations.
I’m not sure how much more sugar they can fit in a can anymore. Puts on KO people will find a stronger addiction
Already made some change from KO and it looks to be dropping back down pretty soon
I buy KO, PM and oil sands stocks every time they zag. What can I say I’m a dividend whore.
Why’d I just get a price alert on KO before the market is open? People are doing pre market trades pumping it to ATH? Why?
btc haters showing their fomo scar tissue you chased and got burned stick to KO and VOO
Sherman Williams--more gold paint for the White House McDonalds--his fave meal KO--one of his fave beverages But really just still eyeing AI and tech stocks. When things drop, that's the time to buy.
These do not exist. If you rarely have to roll either you are way OTM or it's something extremely and ridiculously safe (like ETF on investment grade bond), neither of them will net you any money after slippage and commission. One exception is like the guy above and sell calls on high dividend stocks (KO, HSY), but since dividend is already factored in option price, you are just collecting dividends that are less tax efficient.
KO has been very good to me on one end. I don’t hold shares but have run bullish short strangles for the last year. I always keep a higher delta puts. I also usually leg into the calls when the stock pops. HSY can also work but for the most part just covered calls. On the other end TLN is kinda like playing with fire but only have had to roll a few time over the last year. Usually can sell a decent sized call on their pops.
Amid high volatility KO never ceases to fail to amaze me at how it goes up but goes down when other stocks go up. 💀It’s basically the VIX at this point.
Plenty of stocks doing just fine today, BRK.B, BF.B KO, CVX, or if you prefer an etf SCHD Good day for businesses with robust cash generation power, not a good day for speculation
Microsoft basically 1 hit KO'd my port. This is insane.
ASML, KO, and MSFT have perhaps the biggest moats of any companies on the planet.
It’s a casino. The options volume on Tesla any given week is the same as volume on a stock like Coca-cola (KO) all year. Literally speculation alone keeps things going.
Bro, you can just look to see if defensive stocks are running, that’s usually an indicator of a short term pullback at least. Also, stocks in XLE, XLI, and XLU start running. TLDR: If XLI, XLU, and XLE are green premarket. That’s bearish. Defensive Stocks (not a comprehensive list, do your own DD, I’m not your uncle) - PM - PG - PEP - T - DG - VZ -KO -LMT 👍🏾
I made 500$ -> 1300$ last week. Got some KO and NFLX for 1k$ Everything else keep gambling. But volatility has betrayed me this week 😭
Days like this make me wanna take the buffettpill and full port XOM & KO.
Okay, real talk, 25M is enough where you can buy dividend stocks and live off the dividends so you never actually lose any wealth. KO is paying about $2 at 72, that would pay you $694k a quarter.
I'm divesting my usd holdings and investing in KO .. and I don't mean the stock
You might be on to something with water. Now, idk about puts on KO & PEP because they have the means to get water due to their large revenue. $AWK might be a long term play though
Water - puts on KO and PEP
Better to put your money in a boomer consumer stock like NKE, WMT or KO. This thing ain't ever going to squeeze again like it did. SEC making sure of that.
You're asking about, let me see... comparing two companies that do unrelated things... for a half year time horizon... that you are bearish on but still bullish on... but only for a small investment... just to chase hype but you've done "research" in the sector. - MU and ASML do unrelated things. Comparing these two is like comparing KO and WMT because they are consumer staples with some overlap in the supply chain. - What do you expect when asking for predictions on half year time horizon, for one of the most capital intensive industries that require multi-year projects? - You want to invest even though you believe it's going to pop. This means you aren't the "huge believer" you think you are, or you think you can time it within a half year time frame. - You're already biased, so any "research" you do is moot. You're just trying to validate a conclusion you've already made that was based on hype. And now you're seeking approval from social media. - Why does any of this contrived, backwards logic even matter. You're only putting in a small fraction of your portfolio. Go put it into an ETF if you're just looking for limited exposure.
Puts on KO, PEP, and any other US food manufacturers that rely on aluminum.
I’d probably put 50% in VOO or VTI on the next big dip, 25% in TSMC 10% in in KO or Disney or some stable bank stock and the remainder in Draftkings or Sofi or Hood as my fuck around money.
wonder how many panic sellers he's KO'd at this point
It has the same price to sales ratio as KO right now. It is actually quite cheap.
I don't really understand KO being a stable play right now. If the US ends NATO, you don't think Europeans will stop buying America's biggest branded item?
When I look for a wheel ticker, I usually open the options chain on moomoo first and check different DTEs, deltas and how stable the monthly premiums look. Stocks like O, JNJ or KO make the differences pretty clear because moomoo lets you compare greeks and liquidity across contracts side by side. Helps a lot when you’re trying to find something you can roll for years.
Getting back into options trading, I used to do a lot more (Credit/Debit spreads mostly, some condors/butterflies, etc) but was mostly doing it in stupid ways (Lots of earning plays. Made a lot of money, like 30% or more in a month, then got wiped because the numbers numbered in the wrong direction. Oops) Anyway I haven't done anything in really 5+ years and I've just started getting back into it. My personal risk tolerance and outlook has changed a lot, my goals seem to be a lot more "I want to do options" BUT "I want my worse case scenario to be a bag hold" That leaves me things like covered calls, jade lizards, a few other things. I had the idea of basically doing an earnings play on stocks I actively hold where I sell iron condors on them and if it moves in either direction to just be fine with it, so if a stock went down instead of my put credit spread being a loss I just sell the long for a profit and buy more shares, if it goes up I just sell the long and let the shares get called away. The optimal situation here is it stays neutral, or only slightly bear/bullish, and I collect all the premiums (Losing a bit of possible profit due to the longs) Am I over thinking anything here? I guess if I was confident things would be neutral I could cut out the middle man and just leave off the longs but then I lose some hedge. I use RH so I don't pay per legs, I just have awful fills instead (Yippee) Anyone have thoughts on this or other option strategies? I guess wheeling is probably a good idea for me (I usually hate starting with the put side of things, I'd rather roll a call out and up to follow a rising stock than sell a put and have the stock moon right after. I usually /want/ to own an underlying access, not use my cash to make money) Right now, barring that idea, I've been just buying things I intend on going long in. KO, VTI, VT, trying to get out of a position in NOK but still holding it (I'm up on it though), thinking of getting back into F. The Condor idea was mostly meant for earnings to take advantage of the higher volatility but I wonder if there's a use for it in other stocks that trade slowly/stay stagnant (KO/F/Some others), the call side of things especially as I tend to have more shares on hand than liquid cash.
"Small dogs of the dow" .... Currently KO VZ PG NKE MRK. Dogs of the Dow are the 10 highest yielding stocks in the Dow. Small dogs are the 5 lowest priced of those 10. Big, liquid, well known, well understood, predictable. Sometimes they blow up, but very rarely.
Not writing the below to be rude or controversial. Just wanted to share my findings. The market has moved away from value a very long time ago. Companies can't just mature then issue a dividend and grow slowly like KO and command a premium in their stock price. Wallstreet wants ever increasing growth. That's part of the reason ADBE is priced as it is. The growth story is feared to be done. Damn the rest of the business and how incredibly sticky the product is. Past gains don't factor into today's stock price, only future gains do. GOOG was priced with such a low P/E before its run up for the same reason. Wallstreet feared that the growth story (and the monopoly lawsuit) was done and when that turned out to be false, the stock moved back up to growth P/Es. Any growth stock (most tech stocks) that stop showing growth will see their share price collapse overnight. That includes the Mag7 and all the big chip companies that have had huge runs in 2025 like: NVDA, AMD, AVGO, CLS, WDC, STX, SNDK
Yes you have to be very careful though. Find something with a decent premium and very little movement. KO, SOUN are a few. I played with SOUN for a while, selling the 10 Call and selling the 12 Put (CSP). I closed it this past Friday, opening it 30 days ago. Nice premium. So yes it can be done.
martin luther king coming with the R'KO out of nowhere
Yes, you’re asking for an etf. People probably thought UNH was what you describe, until it lost half its market cap last year. The closest on your list is probably WM. Berkshire is probably the closest given its record of recovering from market downturns. Then probably KO, MSFT, and AMZN. If you want different exposures with some stability, look at DXJ and VHT.
AutoZone and O'Reilly are solid picks, those auto parts stores basically print money since people gotta fix their cars no matter what. I'd probably lean more defensive than discretionary - when times get tough people fix instead of buying new Also might wanna check out KO or PEP if you haven't already, those dividend aristocrats are boring but reliable af
Ironically, all my long-term holdings are up. My biggest disappointment of the day so far is KO going up 0.14%, and one of my ETFs in my retirement account being flatlined today.
Every KO dip is a blessing
I get that but you’re obviously risking too much. I learned the same way you’re talking about. But I learned by buying a single contract at a time, usually in boring stocks with a beta < 1.0. Things like KHC, PEP, KO. Which is against what this sub is about lol. I dabble in options but I’m not a huge fan of the risk associated with it. It looks like you’re going balls deep and will live in this perpetual cycle of getting rich quick and then losing your ass. Likely giving you returns less than the market average. Start slow and learn first. Making little money is better than losing any.
Defensive dividend. PM, McD's, KO.
Please collapse coke (KO), would sincerely appreciate it 🥹🙏
I bought COKE once thinking it was KO but that was a winner. Doubled and sold it.
I'm starting slow, with boring dividend stocks first fod things I pay for anything. KO, VZ, anything I can reliably wheel before parking gains into house shares. I wish Costco would do a stock split already. Then, anything I can opportunistically scalp under oversold conditions. RKT is on a roll atm, but if it dips, I'll go back into that.
KO = Knockout. Does that help make it more hip?
PEP and KO are around 15-20% of my portfolio because they’ve never going tits up and they pay dividends. Yeah they’re not gonna make me a billionaire but I know hold steady and keep cash flowing to invest in more volatile stocks or APPL.
Somebody did that yesterday. I think it was: Pepsi tastes sweeter and thereby tricks our monkey brains to drink more PEP than KO. And... some crayon language on a chart about a double bottom wrapped around a triple top. Pretty solid DD really. I like PEP because its close to PEPE and I'm losing on my KO calls
Doesn't KO underperform SPY by like 10% a year including dividends? Just buy VOO bro
i buy cheap puts on KO as crash insurance.
Everyone is giving OP shit because he bought shares, but OP offered some decent DD and anyone could have gotten in at market open. KO went up 2.69% today and if people managed to get calls it would have printed.