COCA COLA CO
At today's price, COCA COLA CO (KO) is priced for +8.3% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Coca-Cola sells a recipe, not a drink: it ships concentrate to a global web of bottlers who carry the trucks, plants, and people, leaving the parent with the brand and a structurally light asset base that the FY2025 10-K shows still throws off operating income across every region it serves. • The price already pays for durability, not surprise: at roughly 23 times company-wide operating income it embeds about 6.9% annual operating-profit growth for five years, a pace within recent delivery, so
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3,486 institutional managers reported holding KO in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 72% of the company; the top 10 hold 41%. 194 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Berkshire Hathaway, Vanguard Group, BlackRock, among others. On the short side, 51.1M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 1% of shares outstanding (3 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
KO's share count is about flat over the past five years ($6.73B of repurchases, offset by issuance). It pays a dividend, and has paid one every year in our records (18 and counting), raised 17 years straight; the current rate is $2.04 a share annually. Cash returned over the past three years: $25.28B in dividends and $4.22B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
Open-market insider buys at KO over the trailing three years: 2025: 3 buys totaling $999k. 21 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
KO's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-07-28 | +0.3% | -10.4% |
| 2023-10-25 | +3.8% | +4.6% |
| 2024-02-21 | -0.7% | +0.5% |
| 2024-05-03 | +0.4% | +2.6% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
KO's latest 8-K filings: 2026-06-25 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-05-01 (items 5.07); 2026-04-28 (items 2.02, 9.01); 2026-02-20 (items 5.02, 9.01); 2026-02-10 (items 2.02, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: June 27, 2026
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