The Coca-Cola Company (KO)

KO is a great company, but currently over valued. I'll look for an entry point in the low 50s.

http://www.mckinsey.com/App_Media/Reports/Water/Charting_Our_Water_Future_Exec%20Summary.pdf

Pop is bad for you

world will wise up and avoid junk food

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This portfolio tracks the progress of 'good' vs. 'evil' companies.

Evil elements: violent killings, kidnap and torture, water privatization, health violations, and discriminatory practices

Coca-Cola Company is perhaps the most widely recognized corporate symbol on the planet. The company also leads in the abuse of workers' rights, assassinations, water privatization, and worker discrimination. Between 1989 and 2002, eight union leaders from Coca-Cola bottling plants in Colombia were killed after protesting the company's labor practices. Hundreds of other Coca-Cola workers who have joined or considered joining the Colombian union SINALTRAINAL have been kidnapped, tortured, and detained by paramilitaries who intimidate workers to prevent them from unionizing. In Turkey, 14 Coca-Cola truck drivers and their families were beaten severely by Turkish police hired by the company, while protesting a layoff of 1,000 workers from a local bottling plant in 2005.

In India, Coca-Cola destroys local agriculture by privatizing the country's water resources. In Plachimada, Kerala, Coca-Cola extracted 1.5 million liters of deep well water, which they bottled and sold under the names Dasani and BonAqua. The groundwater was severely depleted, affecting thousands of communities with water shortages and destroying agricultural activity. As a result, the remaining water became contaminated with high chloride and bacteria levels, leading to scabs, eye problems, and stomach aches in the local population. Water shortages have occurred in Varanasi, Thane, and Tamil Nadu as well. The company is also guilty of reselling its plants' industrial waste to farmers as fertilizers, despite its containing hazardous lead and cadmium.

Coca-Cola is one of the most discriminatory employers in the world. In the year 2000, 2,000 African-American employees in the U.S. sued the company for race-based disparities in pay and promotions. In México, Coca-Cola FEMSA, the largest Coca-Cola bottler in Latin America, fired a senior bottling manager for being gay. Finally, by regularly denying health insurance to employees and their families, Coca Cola has failed to help stop the spread of AIDS in Africa. The company is one of the continent's largest private employers, yet only partially covers expensive medicines, while not covering generic medicines at all.

From http://www.globalexchange.org/getInvolved/corporateHRviolators.html

Coming infaltion will make its products completely superflous.

Recession proof. Even condemned prisoners ask for it
on their last meal. Good dividends continue.

The stock should recover with the economy but the s&p should come back stronger than this stock in the short-term, after that... the KO should pick up.

I love this stock, but it's overvalued.

BAD SODA COMPANY

Stock is still a little too high for me to buy it. They will need to increase their operating profits before I put my money into the pot.

trying a couple experiments, which hopefully wont mess up my whole portfolio. trying to follow the downtrend.

This company is going nowhere.

Drinking soda makes you fat! It's true.

The funniest "remember the 80's" line from The Wedding Singer is when there's a radio on and you hear some caller (obviously Sandler) saying, "I like the old Coke better than the new Coke, because it's old and so am I." Sandler's classic junior higher old man voice is priceless.

Anyways, Coke is too fizzy. More Mountain Dew, less Coca-Cola.

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I like Coca-Cola. I buy the product and the company is well run- Warren Buffet owns it... but not at this price. At $59 for an analyst average estimate of 19.4 P/E and less than 10% annual growth, I am looking elsewhere. Call me when it's under $28.

More ballast, good dividend. Slow solid grower. Will probably about match population growth. Overseas growth could help, especially China and India, but the disposable income in those countries will probably be the main driver of EPS growth.

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