KO

Jdog86788888

Well it depends what your goal is. If it’s income, I’d say O or KO. If it’s growth and just let it ride, I’d say NVDA. If it’s just a regular hold and chill path: VOO. And it depends the account: Roth vs taxable.

bigmphan

They did. Not sure if they still hold a lot of Occidental Petroleum- but the energy play is still playing out. I’m eager to see what moves Abel makes. AAPL KO AXP is a good core and all, but damn Greg - let’s ride this wave.

Heineken_500ml

Invest in KO The world will run out of clean water. The only thing that can save us is a huuuuge coke bottle that can intake ocean water and sewers and filter everything into Coca cola Coke will replace oil, gas, water, your blood. SpaceX will have to run on coke this is a generational opportunity

FinancialWarthog6738

So Walmart is out here spending half a billion and Tesla is like “here’s couch change.” This is why every boomer portfolio on earth is 40 percent KO and WMT lol. Nvidia printing money so fast they barely have time to call the ad agency.

Think_Currency_8586

Invest 200k into KO stock their dividend yield is about 2-3% right now. That basically pays all the interest. And then if the stock goes up you make money on it if not well idk.

p3ngu1n5

Nah fuck them for wilfully sending tech to russians that is then used to kill Ukrainians. If you have been living under a rock - https://youtu.be/Fp5m0AzwsPk?is=4KO7REcLobreaRh0

Various_Couple_764

If you baught one share of BRK-A in 1970 the $50 you spent would be worth 729K today. What you don't understand is that value investing is about buying low cost stocks that pay a dividned. A long time ago Warren purchases KO (Coca Cola) shares. today each year Berkshire hathaway receives an 800 million dollar dividend from the KO stock it still holds. Cash BRK has used to buy an a lot of small companes most people will recognize today. In short Warren Buffet got rich by buying low cost stock that paid a dividend. And he holds this stock a long time. And he uses that money to completely buy out other companies And those companes no pay out there profits as a dividend to Berkshire Hathaway. Yes Berkshire Hathaway doesn't itself pay a dividend but that just makes the BRK-A or BRK-B very tax efficient toehold over a long time and as a result . You are a growth investory have been told dividneds are meaningless by other growth investors. And you always look at the same price. Not the dividend. Overtime those dividend generate far more cash then the . money spent to buy the stock. There is a lot to investing other than just grwoth. It is time you start leaning more about investing. Investors have een invsesting for dividends for about 400 years. hohn D Rockefeller made 300 million buy building standard oil into a monopoly. By order of the US government he had to retire from managing the the company and it was broken up int.o multiple componentanes of which he was a major share holder in each. So overnight he became a dividend investors 2 years after thebreakup of standard oil his net worth passed 1 billion. and at the time of his death his yearly income was 33 million from dividnends.

Rez425

I’m still regretting not jumping on KO IPO when I had the chance..

Ahamadrayasbaboon

We’re talking about a tenth of a percent. NVDA would have to draw down to a share price of $10 (no splits) and keep the same absolute dividend per share for it to have the same effect as a dividend has on KO. 

419Penguins

Mhmm, doesn’t nvida have a insane amount of shares, for a Trillion dollar company, it should have 5-10x the shares KO has. So it might be paying more in dividends bc it has a lot of shares.

banditcleaner2

22 p/e because they have no new innovative ideas on the horizon. at this point META really should just become a giant dividend paying social media conglomerate. maybe chase some innovation, but otherwise the dividend should be increased to match something like KO

huehuehuehuehuuuu

In case you didn’t catch on, this grandfather also trafficked girls from the low income families in his town. He. owned. their. daughters. They were part of the goods being traded between the gentry. His serfs paid him with their children when they were short on rent. He traded the extra girls he didn’t want for art and calligraphy pieces. This was the pre-WW2 good old days. My coworker both loved and loathed her own grandfather, who according to her was a cultured patron of the arts, a poet, a gentle old man, and a human trafficker who had to flee his homeland because new management took away his town and tried to arrest him. To his deathbed he didn’t think he did anything wrong. She was lamenting how we’ve come to full circle with the he who didn’t KO himself files. So yeah, you don’t need a middle consumer class to keep a country going, and to keep a small upper class very very rich and comfortable. They don’t need your money when they own you entire. You are the literal goods. Your time, your skills, your labour, your children, your physical body.

Improv13

Part, not nearly all. The average inflation rate since 1929 is a little more than 3%. Take a company existing since 1929, like KO. Market value in 1929 was $140 million. I today’s dollars, that $2.8 billion or so. Coke is valued at $350 billion today. Inflation had little to do with that increase.

justin_b28

next time around, only cash out what you put in plus say 20% for some profit, the rest is house money and let that shit ride. Been very happy with this, the caveat is sometimes I kick myself in the ass for not having more shares of the one thing like KO and LLY KO is boring as hell, but it has earned me a lot of money over the last 8 years or so LLY I got on one of the COVID dips (not the big big one). Started with 100 shares, sold half to cover, then rode out 50 + DRIPs. Sitting now at 70 shares just from dividend reinvesting. KO is similar, just DRIP those quarterly payments

coregamma

Fun idea. I used my chatbot and backtesting tool to help me build a portfolio excluding tech stocks because of AI overvaluation worries. It helped me derive 8 stock picks and I selected the portfolio weightings: DUK 13% WMT 15% T 12% NEE 12% PG 14% KO 14% MRNA 10% LLY 10% Backtesting the portfolio over 10 years yields an 11.31% Alpha over the SPY ETF, Beta of 0.41, Sharpe 1.96, CAGR 13.76%, and Max Drawdown -50.55%. Total Return of the basket 262.81% vs SPY's 251.50%

Equivalent-Coat-7605

June 10th I get the most recent one I’ve just been buying more. The shares paid for themselves and I sold the initial buy in. Just riding on profits. Similar to KO and TM for me.

No-Improvement3164

Mango drinks KO is the only thing I can tell.

No-Improvement3164

How is KO outperforming Amazon and Microsoft

LumpyShock9656

Because investing usually refers to buying great companies and holding them over time. Think Buffett with KO and AAPL. That's where the real money is made. Let compounding do the work. I have no issues with people trading and making profits, but don't call yourself an investor if you can't have a longer time horizon. As for my performance I don't know why you'd bring that up, but I'm doing quite well thank you. I'm up 30% over the last two years (that is while significantly adding capital over all months)

Substantial-Use-2867

To be fair, if you had 10,000 bucks in 1919 when KO hit the market, you were already rich. It'd be the equivalent of someone having \~200K to drop on a stock today.

No-Improvement3164

Home Builders and Staples other than KO for some reason

_The_Jerk_Store

KO? What’s the play here with this one? Genuinely curious

ThetaEdgeHQ

The piece worth pulling apart is the actual return on risk capital. SPX 6/18 5920 strike right now is roughly 5 mid, so 500 dollars credit per contract. Reg T margin sits around 20k+ per contract because notional is near 590k, so true monthly yield is something like 2 to 3 percent before any breach, which is fine but not the free money the framing suggests. The deeper issue is you do not need a 20 percent move to lose. A 6 to 8 percent drawdown with a typical vix spike from 14 to 28 expands the put price by 4x or more even with the strike still untouched. The roll at 1 week left either eats that vega hit at the worst moment or rolls into a credit that no longer reflects favorable risk reward. The rare drop framing focuses on the strike breach which is the wrong KO. Sizing is the only real lever here. At 5 percent of NAV per cycle it is a yield enhancement on the SGOV equivalent cash that backs the position. At 30 percent it is the credit trading equivalent of writing insurance you cannot pay claims on. The upthread point about waiting for an iv regime above 20 before deploying is the right frame, but it also means this is not a consistent monthly income strategy, it is an opportunistic vol selling strategy that sits idle most of the year.

craytheon

Healthcare and Consumer Staples like KO, Pep

MattieShoes

He doesn't really like to receive them. All else being equal, dividends can be neutral or negative from a tax perspective. If you were going to sell shares to recover some money, then receiving a dividend less than the amount of money you were going to recover just means you sell less shares, and the tax consequences work out about equal. neutral If you weren't interested in pulling money out, you'd want to reinvest the dividends to buy more shares. But dividends generate a taxable event and you have to pay capital gains taxes on that dividend money even though you weren't looking to liquidate. So that's why his company doesn't pay dividends -- tax efficiency. If KO wasn't paying out 2.5% or whatever it currently is, then you'd expect their share price to increase by that much instead. Buffett would be perfectly fine with that outcome as well. More generally, Buffett is a value investor -- he wants companies that make steady profits. That's the same group of companies that typically produce dividends. That's why most of the stuff he owns produces dividends.

greenpride32

>An increase in market value represents a change in perception It isn't perception, it's earnings. SP500 collectively makes over $2t in profit each year. That number has steadily increased over time. The SP500 also pays over $500b in cash dividends each year. Again that number has increased over time. The value of the equity increase because more profits increase valuation of the company and or increase in distributions increases the value of the equity. Take a very conservative stock such as KO. 15 years ago, a single share would have paid you about $1 in dividends each year. Today it pays a little over double that. Naturally people are willing to pay more for the shares. Just imagine an extreme case where profits went up, so distributions went up, but share price did not. Well KO would be paying over 100% yield - of course it does not make sense.

BWright79

ATT and KO adjust with inflation and put money in your account every quarter that you can use to reinvest. They're show-ers, not growers.

ThreeSupreme

Umm... Do U even understand what Value Investing is? U know that Berkshire Hathaway gets around $5 Billion bucks in dividends annually, right? # Warren Buffett On Compound Interest  Warren Buffett officially became a billionaire at age 56 in 1986, thanks to the **“Magic of Compounding”**. The “Magic of Compounding” is the closest thing to a cheat code in long‑term investing, and dividend reinvesting is the accelerant that turns a good investment into a wealth‑building machine.   When dividends are reinvested, each dividend buys more shares, which then produce more dividends, which then buys more shares, and thus the cycle accelerates. This creates exponential growth, not linear growth. Buffett’s entire investment philosophy is built on this, and he once said: ***“My wealth has come from a combination of living in America, and compound interest.”***  Berkshire Hathaway collects around **$5 billion** annually in total dividend income from its public equity portfolio. For example, Berkshire’s holdings of **Coca-Cola (KO)** generate **$816 million** in dividend income annually. Berkshire's initial investment in Coca-Cola was **$1.3 billion**, meaning that currently Berkshire’s annual dividend income from Coca-Cola returns over **60%** of its original cost basis every year. 

HammerDownl

Your still all tech.. Push in some slow steady stocks so when the worlds on fire you dont lose your face. KO. Some oil like SUN or Exxon. A reit , Walmart has been killin it. Rtx , pharma. Finance etc etc.

AdPotential773

Regular Americans might not have recovered, but as an economy the USA absolutely has. It is by far the major first world economy that has performed the best since 2008. Before 08, Europe was more or less keeping up with America on growth and we got left in the dust after the crisis KO'd half the continent for a decade and caused the other half to overreact into austerity too hard.

Short-Pangolin-9917

I’d probably sell higher delta legs on the side with higher skew instead of keeping the same .5 KO for both p/c ignoring convexity

ThanksDependent1001

True. But man, as a fellow bull there does come a moment when at least a 1-2 percent dip is healthy. Maybe park it all in KO. 🥲

HolidayReaction3352

wtf are you investing in?? KO and NKE??

No-Improvement3164

I’m seeing that. HUM UNH got a tweet that crashed them and now they are ripping and nothing changed. Home builders Stocks dying. Staples dying other than KO.

Micahftww

fuck so PPI is gonna KO my 1dte SPY calls tomorrow?

Micahftww

fuck so PPI is gonna KO my 1dte SPY calls tomorrow

thewhorecat

Sure. It was widely reported that Buffett was not only a net seller of stock leading up to the financial crisis of 2008 but years before he said he was having trouble finding attractively priced investments. As Buffett was reducing exposure he was building up tens of billions in cash and treasury bills. Stocks Buffett sold were PetroChina, which he bought cheap in the early 2000s and sold almost all of it in 2007. He sold Johnson & Johnson, Procter & Gamble, Moody's, and Anheuser-Busch shares. Now, during the financial crisis he made some sweetheart deals with that stored capital. He invested $5 billion into GS in preferred shares that paid a huge dividend (and got the kicker of warrants), GE preferred shares, $5 billion in BofA preferred shares that came with a warrant kicker (which led to him being a greater than 10% holder when he exercised those warrants at $7.14 per share). He did acquire some shares leading up the financial crises such as KO, Amex, and Burlington Northern Sante Fe, which he fully acquired in 2009. He has had a long conviction in KO and Amex. While Buffett does say he doesn't try to time the market his actions somewhat say otherwise. He tends to get very conservative during times of euphoria. If you look at today, Buffett/Berkshire has again been a net seller and now has nearly $400 billion in cash and Treasuries on the books. Berkshire has been a seller of shares in Apple, BofA, Amazon, Citi, and T-Mobile (amongst others). I don't take it that Buffett or Berkshire is expecting an imminent crash but he is again being very cautious while parts of the market are becoming euphoric. We will have to wait and see if he is right this time around.

No-Improvement3164

Looks like KO is in the Chips business

lotoex1

KO. It's boring but it's got a good history. Also PG, they seem to make everything you need in the home.

Fri3ndlyHeavy

Idk, sometimes its pretty easy to see. Here are some examples, some of which are still happening live: -$BIRD, a shoe company, announcing some great AI pivot. Clearly non sense and a short-lived stock pump. Stock is now actively plummeting and will continue to do so. -$TRAW announcing clinical research into hantavirus yesterday, and stock skyrocketed. Average stock traders are not medical professionals, and bought in thinking its the next big thing. Stock will be red going forward. -$RIME announcing an AI idea that would revolutionize an industry completely, but its all promise no action or real path to profit. Stock has been going down daily since, and will continue to do so. I remember $KO going down like 4% or something because some soccer athlete celebrity did something along the lines of holding up a bottle, shaking his head, then picking up a water instead. Its usually these small stocks where things can be obvious. Bigger ones you really cannot predict (e.g. recent Intel, MU, and QCOM movements).

lotoex1

It's not going to triple your money anytime soon, but KO and KR (Kroger). People love soda and need to eat.

desertdodo123

okay. calls on KO

Bane68

LOL I guess that’s why McD’s revenue just grew 9% and KO’s grew 10%. Good call.

lotoex1

9 out of my 12 holdings are up. I started buying almost exactly 4 years ago now. The over all portfolio is up 20% + dividends. I like to buy stuff I have used and will continue to use/buy. Also things that have paid and increased dividends for over over 20 years. KO is where I started and I am up 20% on it. VZ I am up 21% and MO I am up 57%. Then a Magic the Gathering channel I watch on YouTube was telling me that in October of 2023 Hasbro stock was way down and to buy something, anything. It was around $65 and went to $45 over the next 2 months. It has now bounced back to $95. One of the ones that are down is Kroger. I am down 2%, but only started buying it about 9 months ago. My big loser is Wendys. I started buying it in 2024 and I am down 52% on it.

Fearless_Log_8225

That’s cokes bottling division - not KO. Maybe because of gas prices? Dunno

AlertPen4796

ARM KO at 140usd. Stop de red

Spookiest_Meow

I use the stock screener on [stockanalysis.com](http://stockanalysis.com) to export a list of all stocks into Excel, and then I use filters and column formatting rules to find stocks I want based on various metrics like P/E Ratio, Debt/Equity, Free Cash Flow, Return %s over various time periods, etc. When you identify stocks you might like, you look at the stock charts across various time periods - particularly all-time, 5 year, 1 year, etc. If you want to be more precise, you can look at 1 year, 6 month, 3 month, 1 month etc. charts with Moving Average indicator overlays and RSI to determine whether or not it's a good time to buy that specific stock. Another thing you can do is look at ETFs that select stocks by specific metrics, like VIG, and then look at their holdings. A lot of those are ones I'd naturally select based on my own research, for example ABBV, V, MA, KO, WM etc. * use a stock screener * export the data to a spreadsheet app * format columns for visibility and filter * identity good potential stocks via various financial metrics * look at their charts * look at moving average indicators and RSI, or whatever indicators you like * buy whatever meets your desired criteria and looks good

ThanksDependent1001

(Not a licensed advisor) But I’ve been wheeling KO, SBUX, PANW for more IV.

CartographerSilent27

KO, TSCO, AXP getting to old for this sht

Molten-Helldiver

VOO, KO, PEP, HYSA, WMT, COST and chill lol

Significant_Prior781

Because solid companies with a track record of paying dividends (think Coca-Cola (KO) has an elite dividend track record, with over 64 consecutive years of annual dividend increases) Companies like this STILL pay those dividends when the stock prices are going down... So your stock values are going down but you still get paid and that may allow to to not have to sell stocks at a loss

Bluesquare9

Yeah and earnings are this Thursday so I might get KO’d

kemar7856

Liar nobody told you to buy KO

bluedinoraptor

Is this Billionaire’s favorite stock KO?

InquisitorCOC

Warren Buffett has always been a market timer at heart: - In 1969, at the height of "Go-Go" era bull market, he sold everything except Berkshire Hathaway and closed his fund - He stayed away until 1973, avoiding the Nifty-Fifty mania completely - When Washington Post began fighting Nixon and stock quickly cratered, he finally pounced - In October 1974, at the bottom of the super bear market, he said to a Forbes interviewer that he felt "like an oversexed man in a harem" - From that point on, he was 100% invested all the way until Summer 1987, when he again sold everything except ABC, Geico, and Washington Post - After the big crash though, he quickly put his money to work again and was all in with $KO in 1989 - By late 1990s, his holding was already too big to move in and out of the market quickly, but he nevertheless got of rid of many holdings such as Disney, Fannie Mae, and McDonald's around early 2000

kintarogolden

back when i considered buying back in to KO for the dividends, chatgpt told me ko for dividends, pep for growth. what growth? lol

hannes0000

I'm choosing for long term $MO, $KO and $O

Tempest1897

Missing KO and PEP

Jagged_Tide

KO?

Cynical_Doggie

Why KO and JNJ? I don’t see their market cap growing much if at all.

freezetime311

Oh yeah I can't keep track of the dividends. If I did get some from them that's been good at least. I know Coca-Cola KO gives me dividends for that stock also has not done well over the last 4 years. I need to start whittling down my portfolio for sure.

Business-Ad-5344

you need more balance. i say buy these 4 stocks: KO, GOOGL, MSFT, AAPL, JNJ or get these 5: KO, GOOGL, MSFT, AAPL, JNJ, JPM, CVX

jolsen13

Tesla, Google and KO - only three stock you need to own

avatarfire

KO, VT, SCHD??? Lmao what is this, r/investing?

FindingZen4

Buffet's rolling in his grave saying he should have bought more KO

pooterssssssssss

They just murdered everything and put it in KO?(Coca-Cola?)

gometsss888

KO calls printed nicely

tika_dengu

!p KO

captain_casino

Glad I went with KO calls

Swiftnice

KO is the newest meme stock

Strict-Hearing-177

KO UnH Just aither  day at the BUFFETT

applerascal

should’ve bought $KO OTM calls instead of buying $SPOT otm calls at least it wasn’t too much

Cav829

I've traded KO for a long ass time, and I don't know if I can ever recall a +8% day that didn't involve like a market crash or market crash recovery. The whole reason you invest in it is \*not\* to see this kind of volatility.

awetfartruinedmylife

KO +6% a sign the market is healthy right?

EmpathyFabrication

Coca-Cola (KO) Reports First Quarter 2026 Results: Global Unit Case Volume Grew 3% Net Revenues Grew 12%; Organic Revenues (Non-GAAP) Grew 10% Operating Income Grew 19%; Comparable Currency Neutral Operating Income (Non-GAAP) Grew 12% Operating Margin was 35.0% versus 32.9% in the Prior Year; Comparable Operating Margin (Non-GAAP) was 34.5% versus 33.8% in the Prior Year EPS Grew 18% to $0.91; Comparable EPS (Non-GAAP) Grew 18% to $0.86 Guidance: (non-GAAP) growth of 4% to 5% FCF $12.2 billion

Zestyclose_Raisin459

KO is actually a defensive company… typically does well in bad economies

gopoohgo

KO: Look at me, I'm a semi now!

Slightlybadpicks

Never seen a one day pump on KO like this 😳

ToonamiNights

KO about the only thing that's green oof...

GoZukkYourself

KO can not be stopped.

Haunting-Cry7752

KO did well, that’s the most bullish signal out there

Wowmuchrya

When high beta stocks like semiconductors go down the money does not leave the market, it rotates into things like KO, MCD, VISA, etc

laurencenor

Anyone else see futeres red and instantly know that as a result KO, AAPL and BRKB will be green?

hubbs_j

10 open orders for spot puts on webull and they only pushed through one. They instantly sold me all the KO puts I wanted though

TempestDrive

I am down -7% on my KO calls. Hopefully it’ll bounce tmr after earnings

Big-Foundation-5623

Just bought $KO calls who thinks we have great earnings

HAND__EGG

So Google and apple alone is up 205% and 97% in 5 years and spx is up 77% in 5 years. So two of my dividend holdings alone is beating a major index. Then add on O, KO, SCHD and its up another 102%. Thats also not calculating any dividends paid out to me… Its been fun accumulating money and seeing it snowball. 😊

TempestDrive

Are KO calls the move?

TempestDrive

KO calls?

MetalEnthusiast83

Yeah nobody is going broke because they invested a bunch into SCHD or TD or KO lol

Fluid_Product6292

Apple is a hard one. Roblox down KO down. Reddit tough to say probably %8 down. Robinhood I’m super bullish on

InterestingMath3088

Waste Management and more so Costco are th recession proof stocks that help you sleep well at night. Also shout out KO

CompetitiveDrawing89

I am a bagholder since 2022 at52.02 couple hundreds of shares, now it has higher gain than KO in my ptf.

stringtheory28

KO weeklies

AwakeOrganisation

War auch mal da wo du jetzt bist - hab angefangen mit paar Basic Videos aber die meisten sind entweder zu oberflächlich oder komplett übertrieben kompliziert. Am Ende hilft nur selber durchprobieren mit kleinen Beträgen, bis du verstehst wie die Griechen sich verhalten und wann dein KO wirklich stirbt

No-Camel2703

Powell would body slam Warsh if they were in the ring right now. Quick KO.

No_Band_8150

The thresholds I have landed on after tracking this across a few thousand entries: * Below IVR 30: basically skip. Premium is too thin to cover directional risk on a .30 delta short. You are selling vol that is already cheap and hoping it gets cheaper. Expected value drops hard in this bucket and the expired worthless rate looks great right up until one name moves 2 sigma and eats six months of premium. * IVR 30-50: tradeable but be selective. Works best when IVR is *rising* into the entry, not drifting down. Direction of IVR matters almost as much as level. * IVR 50-70: the sweet spot for 30-45 DTE premium selling. Market is paying you enough for the vega exposure and the expected move tends to overstate realized. * IVR 70+: rich but there is almost always a reason. Earnings, guidance, M&A chatter, sector rotation. I still take these but I size smaller and check the catalyst calendar first. Blind IVR chasing into a known event is how people blow up. One more variable worth pulling in if you have it: IVR percentile relative to the underlying's own history versus absolute IV. A stock like SMCI at IVR 40 is a completely different animal than KO at IVR 40. Normalizing matters. Phew.

Rez_X_RS

KO

actias_selene

I have started to DCA out from individual tech stocks that I was holding, especially MU and TSM, with the objective of selling them all until July slowly.  I am keeping MSFT, AAPL and SPY positions, but I won't be adding more for the moment. I will be half accumulating cash, half buying KO and PEP. Feels like it can be a good time for boring stocks.

zonk84

My prime mover is always agnostic, Lynch/Buffett style "understand what the company does and don't buy something for 5 minutes you don't see yourself holding for 5 years".... Setting aside 401k/Roth/robo-ETF accounts - not sure if pure DCA could even apply to the first 2; but the last one is overflow and I suppose *does* count since it's just a regular monthly transfer as planning maxes out the first 2 over the year -- in my individual account? My prime mover is always buying into a something I like and believe has longterm legs. But - that doesn't happen every month. 6 years into individual equities account, I've never really thought about it -- but my *pure guess* (and I say this as non-pro, non-charts, non-trader) would be that for the months where nothing on the watchlist tickles me? I fall back on stalwart workhorses and in particular, despite not really being a charts guy? Something under the rolling 52 wk average. Over the longer haul, ***feels*** like it's been those choices that keep me in the individual equities... I always told myself - if you can't beat the S&P, you've just got an expensive hobby. I've had some nice wins - and some mistakes. However, I suspect -- it's been those months where I just default to AAPL or KO or AMZN or whatnot that have probably kept me well above my benchmark. Without doing the math - to say nothing of even the hindsight timeframe "What's an efficient and inefficient market period?" - I strongly suspect it's been the boring "What looks like its on sale?" stalwarts that have kept me ahead of my line.