The Vita Coco Company, Inc. vs COCA COLA CO, two Beverages stocks. A side-by-side on valuation, growth, margins, returns, and what each price is betting.
Where COCO and KO diverge most: on debt / equity, COCO reads 0.00 and KO reads 0.01; on revenue growth, COCO reads +23.0% and KO reads +5.2%. The rest of the comparable metrics sit closer together. On valuation, today's COCO price has a different growth bar priced in than KO (+33.1% implied for COCO vs +7.6% for KO); the higher figure is the steeper assumption to clear, not a better or worse stock. What COCO's price implies is a somewhat stretched bet versus history (whole-company basis). What KO's price implies is a bet that sits within the historical range (whole-company basis). The bull and bear cases for each are in their full reports below.
| Metric | COCO | KO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $73.16 | $81.56 |
| Market cap | $4.4B | $351.8B |
| Sector | Beverages | Beverages |
| Stage | Growth | Mature |
| Implied growth (priced in) | +33.1% | +7.6% |
| P/E | 53.0 | 25.6 |
| P/B | 12.56 | 9.85 |
| P/S | 6.72 | 7.14 |
| EV/EBITDA | 43.4 | 22.0 |
| Revenue growth | +23.0% | +5.2% |
| Gross margin | 40.0% | 63.0% |
| Operating margin | 18.7% | 35.0% |
| Net margin | 12.6% | 27.8% |
| Return on equity | 23.5% | 38.3% |
| Return on assets | 17.0% | 13.2% |
| Return on invested capital | 22.4% | 34.6% |
| FCF yield | 1.5% | 3.6% |
| Dividend yield | — | 2.5% |
| Debt / equity | 0.00 | 0.01 |
| Current ratio | 3.65 | 1.36 |
| Altman Z (solvency) | 9.12 | 7.81 |
| Piotroski F (quality) | 7 / 9 | 7 / 9 |
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