KO

Snowman33001

Wow, KO is a 350B company. That’s kind of crazy. Will it get to $1T? Sure, why not?

Curious-Bird-8159

Riley , Kavanagh , Stevenson KO. Free money ?

ra__account

But compared to a non-dividend or low-dividend, a moderate dividend stock like KO is going to underperform a growth stock. The key point is that it's not free money, you have to look at total returns.

bam2350

I'm going to provide extra context, which I think this conversation needs. I opened my brokerage account in 2015 with the goal to get better gains than my checking account which had accumulated too much cash. Lesson/question/change #1: Why didn't I figure out HYSA??? At the time, my father was my coach. He was fully retired, 75 years old, and living on dividends, social security, and pension. His guidance, which made sense to me, was towards dividend paying reliable stocks of companies that we're going to fail. For example MMM or ATT. He told tales of stocks he "couldn't afford to sell due to gains/tax" and the neat companies he had invested in (BGS) that had done so well. It seemed he clearly had it figured out. In time, Dad has passed, I have taken control of his old accounts to provide for my mother. There is clear evidence of emotional investing, and choices he made clearly haven't all panned out. For example, the BGS shares he gifted me are now nearly worthless. Lesson/question/change #2: Dad wasn't a genius and didn't always get it right. Lesson#3: Emotional decision making is frequently not the best. However, my mother remains well provided for, even as her costs skyrocket in assisted living. Dad was a proponent of picking individual stocks. Through time I have largely moved away from this. I continue to hold individual stocks, which has generally been OK, but hasn't "beat the market". However, since my objective was to do better than my checking account, I'm doing very well. Lesson/change #4: Instead of focusing on picking individual stocks, using broad index funds is easier and quite successful. Lesson #5: Understand and remember your objectives. At this point, VOO, VTI, and DIA account for about 30% of my brokerage portfolio. A few big winner individual stocks and a few more funds (including SGOV) round out my top 10 holdings. Going forward, I will almost certainly continue to focus on adding to my VOO, VTI, and SGOV positions. I have benefited from and enjoyed my dividends. However, some of my worst moves have been "dividend chasing". At one point, rather than benefitting from the modest monthly dividend from VOO or the declining % yield from CAT I chased dividends in a bond fund RA. I'm about 25% down on that, and while it continues to pay well above 5%, fees will eat into that. I'd have been ahead to purchase VOO, CAT, or KO. Buffet has benefitted from dividend stocks, but doesn't pay a dividend... Lesson/change #6: Don't chase the high dividends, benefit from strong stocks that pay a modest yield. Time in the market....

lotoex1

But one big difference between now and back then there is a much higher percentage of people buying stock mostly via a 401K so auto buying every week (about 66%). If we did have some 80% crash and something like KO dropped from 83.50 to 16.70 as long as I had a job I would be loading up on that.

Molten-Helldiver

KO also…was hoping it’d inverse

Dude_HaHa

I hate semiconductor and memory buls so fucking much its unreal. I'd rather see that capital flkw into shitcoin crypto, space, or even KO and pepsi.

AlGAdams

Great progression breakdown.  The first few options I traded were on KO and Visa.  They are slow and low volume enough that I felt comfortable reacting to intraday technical indicators.  I practiced them until I really understood the Greeks, IV, RSI, EMAs etc etc.  Now a days I do more fundamental investing and just use LEAPS or selling options to inject some beta weighted delta into my target yield account.

BearContra

I have a confession - I thought KOSPI was actually KO-SPY i.e. Korean SPY LMAO.

neillson01

4m of KO on the last 2 mins… rotation tomorrow

MightyCaseyStruckOut

Yeah, it's called losing my ass on other investments lmao For the record, the 5 stocks I bought were MSFT, WMT, AMZN, EBAY and KO. My dad told me to invest in what I personally used or enjoyed. Thanks for the advice, dad!

AnotherNOP

I would check out Berkshire Hathaway's holdings. They are always solid. **Top 9 holdings by portfolio weight:** |Ticker|Holding|% of Portfolio|Value| |:-|:-|:-|:-| |AAPL|Apple|21.99%|$57.8B| |AXP|American Express|17.43%|$45.9B| |KO|Coca-Cola|11.56%|$30.4B| |BAC|Bank of America|9.52%|$25.0B| |CVX|Chevron|6.64%|$17.5B| |OXY|Occidental Petroleum|6.55%|$17.2B| |GOOGL|Alphabet Class A|5.93%|$15.6B| |CB|Chubb|4.24%|$11.2B| |MCO|Moody's|4.09%|$10.8B| ||

haze_from_deadlock

You know, $200k weekly plays sound like they're insanely risky, but they could also be incredibly boring like some dumb cash-secured put on KO with almost no assignment risk

PapaCharlie9

You should have mentioned up front that this was an earnings play. KO quarterly earnings is July 28. Was the 82.50 call ATM at the time you opened? KO has been on a runnup, +$3 over the last 5 days, so it seems possible. That up trend is bad news for your iron fly. Do you have a thesis for why KO will come down by expiration? Expecting an earnings disappointment or just IV crush? The 75p and 90c were very low delta at the time, judging by what I'm seeing in the chain for today's spot price of 85.07. That, and the upcoming earnings, would explain why the opening credit was so high.

Civil-Woodpecker8086

Sorry, KO

Rrrandomalias

Kospi is KO SPY in us stock market the following day

FLRugDealer

KO

Happy-Champion1661

go look at 1929, 1987 and 2008. 2026 is next, sell everything, KO will be the new 10T company

Happy-Champion1661

$MSFT is basically modern $KO

gkdjsl

Yeah I'm still not going to buy KO or MSFT, fuck you

Happy-Champion1661

I am long PEP and have KO puts, yeah it is up 23% ytd lol

PoobliusFlavius

They pumpin everything BUT TECH LMFAO XOM+2% KO even moar kek

italianrage138

guess I shouldn't have sold my KO calls yesterday for a loss

Molten-Helldiver

Hey..KO treating me well this year 😂

ThanksDependent1001

Quick freak out sell everything and buy NFLX and KO 😂

Happy-Champion1661

also went in KO puts at open, longer exp tho. Free money for today lol

Molten-Helldiver

My KO puts at open are up 400%

Cav829

Have we considered making up some excuse to add KO to the Nasdaq and booting Nvidia? Gotta trim these losers.

Slightlybadpicks

Lmao poor Neymar came on for this for the second time in the tournament? Only to be KO’d

Pamper69

Bers literally going to get KO'd by baby ports investing

lin1960

KO

thewimsey

> Please feel free to correct me, but the dividends aren't giving you additional money. Yes and no. Dividends are paid based on a fixed amount per share, not a percentage. So if KO is paying $3/share and you own 10,000 shares, you will be receiving $30,000 in dividends if the share price is $100 or if it drops to $60. Which is why, up to a point, they are a hedge.

Molten-Helldiver

KO isn’t down 25% in the last month 😂

AlGAdams

My bear market indicator KO is above 83, indicating SPY is gonna drill

No-Detective5439

10x KO Space X bcs I really thought it could double xd

empty-bensen

KO might be the most safe buy when it’s below the moving average. I can see why Buffett fucks with it.

Broke4Life

When MSFT and KO in my port go green, everything else goes RED, literally.

chrizz61

Lol how did I not went KO on my MU long with 1135$ KO, I saw it going down to 1132$ on Robinhood but now Robin shows lowest was 1138$

neillson01

KO why you bitching around. Go to $90 please.

Lower_Skin_3683

i got a soda and spilled in on me too. This is the TA I use in trading. COKE, KO and PEP will most likely be red

Sylla1031

there are certainly more "boring" names than these (KO is my best example), but in the sense of market cap, business model and longevity, these are pretty core / core-satellite in the case of ANET. IV is also a useful indicator in terms of boring.

far-canal-

bols 4 lyf, bers have been KO’d 👊

Molten-Helldiver

KO and chill

ThongBasin

$KO

Soffatjockis

Thought about hedging in KO, but man. That shit has been flying lol. PE of 25 for a canned soda company. Bruh...

NativePlant870

KO RE A said fuck your calls

Cav829

Did you know AMZN has been a worse stock over the past 5 years than KO? Yes, a fucking soda company has literally made more than a money printing machine that is the world's biggest cloud hosting service AND the world's biggest retailer. I actually feel bad for AMZN bols with how fucking stupid this has gotten.

asvomo

I agree with this. Today was a good reminder that owning several AI stocks doesn't necessarily mean you're diversified. NVDA and MU were both down for me, but my long-term KO position helped offset a lot of that weakness. Even though SPCX bounced today, I don't regret staying cautious after the recent selloff. The market is still trying to price the company, and I'd rather wait for MU earnings tomorrow before making any major decisions. Sometimes doing nothing is a strategy too

Fun_Investment1101

I just ordered a coke out the company vending machine and the fucking claw thing knocked down like 20 bottles and wouldn’t even give me my fucking coke, puts on KO

Crazy_Donkies

Jesus christ. Move the goal post much? Anyone can sell a stock and rotate money. One doesn't need an ETF/MF to do it for them. Moreover, I'm not talking about high-growth, in fact I'm not talking about any specific sector or anything. In general, most well run companies over a decent period of time will recover from pullbacks. GOOG, AMZN, KO, BRK.B, MSFT, and thousands more. **Fact is,** if you miss a recovery by sitting on the sidelines, you'll often cut your long-term profits in half. You're better off to buy good companies and hold over a long period of time and hold until the thesis changes. E.g. SaaS is negatively impacted by AI; or Chinese EVs negatively impacting TSLA sales in EU.

No_Art_2919

$KO drilling

NewlyOld31

These KO Jan. 2027 70c are going to be a solid play for me.

dvdmovie1

Rotation not too surprising; you have names like CRM down 15 straight days and MSFT down 20% since 6/1 while BE corrects 20% then goes up like 50% in 12 days and every semi name basically only goes up. Do I like something like CRM? No, but the long AI/short software trade feels crowded again. At some point have to wonder whether MSFT and AMZN shareholders will start to not tolerate the spending, especially given that over the last 5 years you'd have done better in KO and JNJ than owning either. (MSFT +38%, AMZN +36%, JNJ +40%, KO +46%.)

bilingualbunny

Diversification is genuinely impossible, you get spy, spy down, EVERYTHING down with it. Clearly it doesn't make a difference. KO will be down, F will be down, P&G will be down. All "diversification" means is "oh you might lose less if you invest in this dogshit boomer stock when the tech stocks carrying the market take a dip" CALLS

kairepaire

KO +1.3% in premarket

SuspiciousSpyderman

$AMZN $ORCL $KO $BJ on my watchlist tomorrow

sashazaliz

PLTR NVDA and HOOD all have the same problem. they move 5 to 10% on random days and youll get blown through your strike when you least expect it. for a sketchy market id stick with slow movers like KO, JNJ, the big banks. premium is lower but you actually get to keep the shares

Scalpaholic

That's it. Let the Dip Buyers think it'll V. Round 2 coming up in 15 minutes and probably going to be the KO.

russian_cream

revs are $31M, not $40M. not sure where the $40M came from. more importantly, the acquisition was funded by vendor financing + convertible preferred shares,, not cash. so your '4 years to turn a profit' just doesn't make sense more importantly, what you're calling 'best case scenario' (\~10M EBITDA on $31M revs) isnt best case, it is what the datacenter is currently operating on with legacy crypto clients. the ai conversion projects >$60M EBITDA post conversion (\~130M post expansion). that is the 'best case scenario' or the entire bull thesis. VIVO also has another \~150MW of power secured markets are forward looking and this sector especially. $KEEL runs a \~$100M loss and still 8x'd with far less prominent squeeze mechanics. $APLD, $IREN, Nscale all rerated before profits, on the narrative and signed deals on dilution - they've cancelled their ATM and $180M shelf, have an active PIPE and $121M private placement coming in. their entire model for funding the buildout is a flywheel based on borrowing against the tenancy, refinancing, and reinvesting the equity. immediate dilution risk is low this isn't a warren buffet subreddit and $VIVO is not $KO, no one is arguing otherwise. this is a shortsqueeze subreddit. it is speculative and based on landing a decent tenant. with a 2.4 M float and 160% of that float being short, it is highly asymmetrical

NewlyOld31

Bought 5 KO 70c 1/27/27 this AM when it hit about $77. Think this will be great for me.

dvdmovie1

AMZN over the last 5 years: +41% JNJ over the last 5 years: +45% KO over the last 5 years: +49% MSFT over the last 5 years: +51% WM over the last 5 years: +59% BRKB over the last 5 years: +80% IBM over the last 5 years +98% WMT over the last 5 years +168%

Spiritual_Bat7343

the reconstructed iv surface part is where id poke hardest as a tester. assignment rates are really sensitive to how you handle early exercise around ex div dates, and if the premiums are rebuilt off a smoothed surface you can quietly understate how often you get called early on dividend names. so id sanity check the assignment numbers on something like KO or JPM against what actually happened. the tax suggestion someone gave you is a good one too, the after tax give back on getting called in a taxable account changes which strike rule actually wins. looks cool though

UNEXPECTED_PREQUEL

What do you guys think of my long term portfolio of some undervalued stocks? $BRKB $IBM $KO $SPCX

UNEXPECTED_PREQUEL

I'm trying to build a long term portfolio, nothing crazy, just some undervalued value names: $BRKB $IBM $KO $SPCX Any other suggestions?

strongry1

I read an article in the Scholastic Reader when I was in elementary school about investing in KO and told that story to my son who chose KO as one of the stocks to get for his $100 portfolio I gave him for his birthday.

UNEXPECTED_PREQUEL

Thinking about building a conservative value portfolio with a portion of my funds. Nothing crazy, just some undervalued value names for the long term. $BRKB $IBM $KO $SPCX Any other suggestions?

HobbyTraderDK

KO Then he also learns about dividends.

Important_Mud_6700

MCD or KO -- I'm a retired elementary teacher. Let him invest in something he knows about like McDonald's or Coca-Cola or something similar. When when my kids were little, they wanted to invest in a local restaurant, so I had them invest in Sysco. They also wanted McDonald's and Kroger. It made it fun for them to follow!

North_Korea_Nukess

KO

Moist-Guava-732

KO WMT DIS CMG long calls on these will print during the next tech selloff stop buying puts just buy calls on value stocks instead

dvdmovie1

Stock was also here at the beginning of 2024. 5 year return is 52%, boring KO is +50%. Even IBM is +98%

Apprehensive-Art4702

Holy fuck McGregor Just KO'd Aldo. Ohh wait, wrong year never mind.

iiGoodVibesii

Noted on KO. Ty

Molten-Helldiver

KO keep drilling please, I need $80 a share

abroadbroadband

They're gonna call the lightning fake news and we'll have the first KO by electrocution tonight

Curious-Bird-8159

Only -225 topuria KO?! Easy money

No-Improvement3164

KO at ATH. GIS is in the dumpster

Ready_Scratch_1902

Lou mannheim called.  Told me to rotate into KO GIS 

Real_Passenger4282

Hey, props for starting at 18 — that compound interest head start is going to be huge. A few thoughts: On the broker question: Robinhood is fine honestly, especially with the 3% Roth IRA match. Fidelity and Schwab are the other popular picks — better research tools, more reliable customer service, and no PFOF concerns. But don't overthink the broker part, it matters way less than what you actually buy. On your strategy: You said growth + dividends and "a bit risky" — those kind of pull in different directions, so here's how I'd think about it at 20: * Roth IRA → max this out first ($7k/year). Since you won't touch it for decades, go heavy on growth here (VOO, QQQ, or individual growth stocks). The beauty of a Roth is you'll never pay taxes on the gains. * Individual account → this is where dividend stocks make more sense. Build a portfolio of solid dividend payers (think SCHD for an ETF, or individual names like O, KO, JNJ, ABBV if you want to pick stocks). Reinvest every dividend while you're young — the snowball effect is real. For learning: * "The Intelligent Investor" by Benjamin Graham (the classic) * On YouTube: Joseph Carlson has great content on dividend portfolio building, very practical * r/dividends is a solid sub for that specific strategy One thing that really helped me stay motivated was actually tracking my dividend income month by month. seeing that number go up every quarter keeps you disciplined when the market dips. You're asking the right questions at the right age. Just stay consistent and don't chase meme stocks with your core portfolio. Good luck!

greenpride32

To be fair, the share price of any other stock would have cratered. 350 p/e. 2024/25/26 is more or less flat revenue. Loss of EV credit handout kills their margin and profits. TLSA makes $4b in profit, it's worth $1t. SPCX loses $4, it's worth $2t. KO pays out twice the amount of TSLA profit in cash dividends each year, but it's worth a fraction of it. Meanwhile your other SP500 top 10 weights are making $20-100b+ in profit each year. Which ~~one~~, two don't belong?

Fragrant_Question358

Europoors ans their silly games like fifa is going to raise the price of KO and MCD. Get in before its too late. 

rocier

I'll have some more KO and T thank you very much

Mr_Zamboni_Man

Just keep rolling OOM KO calls 0dte its gonna pay bro I promise

MagicJuggler

Everything else dumps...and KO bounces. KO is truly the stablecoin of the market.

Molten-Helldiver

Maybe my KO calls are cooked if the rest of the market going up..

TastyToad

Got out from semis last week after barely breaking even on $AVGO (held too much through earnings). Riding healthcare ($UNH - exited today, $CLOV) and consumer/entertainment ($KO, $NFLX, $WMT) with a sprinkle of retardation ($GME, $OPEN) on top. As always, tomorrow I'll feel like a genius or say to myself "this was obvious, why didn't I see it". Welcome to the casino.

SteakEater137

AI trade spooked. NVDA’s forward PE is contingent on AI CapEx, KO’s forward PE looks more “guaranteed” Not that I even agree necessarily but thats the narrative today.

empty-bensen

KO does not concern itself with the problems of the market.

Molten-Helldiver

Made 98% on KO today…I’m out

nad242

Be careful, you'll get KO'd in the first round.

MakeOSUGreatAgain63

Go buy KO and COST instead u tard

ThanksDependent1001

Man I’m right there with you. Down from 100k to probably under 30kwhen my puts fail tomorrow. Trying to hang things up officially after losing 25k today. I flipped the last amount I have left to only KO and Ford. Good luck man.

greenpride32

At the IPO price, SPCX is being valued close to what AVGO is worth and more than META. SPCX lost about $5b last year. Meanwhile AVGO makes over $20b in profit and META over $60b in profit. AVGO earnings growth is very high and expected to remain that way for some time, hence the valuation differences. So in SPCX you are buying a comparatively overvalued stock by any and every measure, and only comparable to TSLA. TSLA by the way makes 4x less profit than KO, but valuation is 4x more. Forget about even trying to compare TSLA to AVGO META and the true mega caps.

Gangnam_style_gaming

Exact same situation today, but with more profit/loss. I got gradually more greedy these past few weeks and I essentially spiraled and lost my own integrity. The reason I wanted to trade is because I study and just have a sidejob, so there’s not any steady income. I figured I had money, I might aswell let that money make more money, but I started being too hands-on with the whole trading thing. Bad trade after bad trade, more and more volatile. I’m going to graduate, get to work (it’ll be easy to get a well-paying job in my situation), and invest monthly into a pie consisting of a few % of smaller stocks and something like the S&P and perhaps something stable like KO. I am leaving this trading shit behind

rafaelnmartins

KO going up today 1.7% as NASDAQ goes down....

Moist-Guava-732

so damn annoying that my value plays can only go up when tech goes down KO and WMT only green when semis red

ninja_mon

KO is recession-proof 🤣

Namtabmal

Its fucking hilarious seeing people rushing to buy KO and other consumer defensive stocks when their P/Es are higher than the ones they are selling to buy them. Hahahah

AlGAdams

You know when KO and Mils are mooning something aint right in AI town

Molten-Helldiver

I didn’t buy KO calls this morning…I belong here