The Coca-Cola Company shares stand out with an interesting technical chart pattern displaying horizontal consolidation. One would assume that the current accumulation phase will cede eventually to an acceleration to the upside.
Summary
● According to Refinitiv, the company's ESG score for its industry is good.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Analysts have a positive opinion on this stock. Average consensus recommends overweighting or purchasing the stock.
● The average price target of analysts who are interested in the stock has been strongly revised upwards over the last four months.
● There is high visibility into the group's activities for the coming years. Outlooks on future revenues from analysts covering the equity remain similar. Such hardly dispersed estimates support highly predictable sales for the current and upcoming fiscal years.
● The divergence of price targets given by the various analysts who make up the consensus is relatively low, suggesting a consensus method of evaluating the company and its prospects.
Weaknesses
● With relatively low growth outlooks, the group is not among those with the highest revenue growth potential.
● The company is in debt and has limited leeway for investment
● The firm trades with high earnings multiples: 27.44 times its 2024 earnings per share.
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
● The average consensus view of analysts covering the stock has deteriorated over the past four months.
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The Coca-Cola Company is the world's leader in the production and marketing of non-alcoholic beverages. Net sales break down by activity as follows:
- sale of beverage concentrates and syrups (58.9%);
- bottling and sale of beverages (41.1%): sparkling soft drinks (Coca-Cola, Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Fanta, Fresca, Schweppes, Sprite and Thums Up brands) water, sports drinks, coffee and tea (Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Crystal, Dasani, do?adan, Fuze Tea, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater,
Gold Peak, I LOHAS, Powerade, and Topo Chico), juices, dairy and plant-based beverages (Core Power, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Maaza, Minute Maid, Minute Maid Pulpy, and Simply).
At the end of 2024, the group had 112 production sites worldwide.
61% of net sales are abroad.
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