The Coca-Cola Company (KO)

Stock market goes up you drink coke. Stock market goes down you drink coke. Recession you drink coke.

This pitch could go on forever.

PS. Great emerging market play.

NEVER SELL BUY AND HOLD FORVER

3% yld double digit dividend growth - recession resistant. At low end of historic valuation

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.

Coca Cola is rated the no.1 brand in the world. It is about to come out of the indigestion it suffered from bad management, poor marketing and non-persistent new products and competition from non-carbonated drinks from Pepsi. To invest in KO is to invest in Mr. Isdell ability to turn the company around.

This company has floundered ever since the .com bust --- maybe all those software engineers had to give up their Coke fixes? Probably not. But after floundering for so long, the basic fundamental strength of the company will show itself soon.

Somthing about coke that makes people drink it all the time. My whole family drinks it more than anything else.

Coke has yet to be popular in China, but if they do, you have billions of extra folks drinking coke products.

Coke just purchased the phillippine bottling company from san miguel. putting coke in a position to ship coke products from phillippines to asia ( including china).

undervalued stock, as earnings grow, P/E ratio will rise also from 20 to 25 range, thereby increasing stock value at a rate faster than mere earnings growth

With there purchase of Honest Tea, and their move into alternative drinks, I don't believe this is the same old Coke anymore. This company is going to be strong for years to come.

My one consumable vice is caffeine. And I prefer my caffeine in the form of Diet Coke. So I decided to check out where Coca Cola is at, stock-wise. Seemed solid: outperforming expectations, if not spectacularly; paying out a good dividend to shareholders. A rocky social record does give me pause, but high environmental marks from Calvert are reassuring.

I will retire in 17 years. KO will still be here, worth alot more, and will have been paying me increasing dividends the whole time. I am just not sure why this is so hard to figure out...

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz. Large caps, fat caps, sleepy caps.

It is a no brainer. You can have treasury bonds yielding 6% or Coke yielding 5% in earnings yield + 2,5% dividends + 2% buybacks at more or less the same risk. Also you get get 6% long term growth for free.

Okay, Coca-Cola is one of my favorite holdings. It has to be.

I've owned this for many years, and in terms of price appreciation, I am down 20%, something like that. Ouch, right? Well consider this: if you go by my first round of buying, I am actually down 50%. Through the magic of additional buys, I have reduced my overall cost basis to around $53 a share.

Oh, one more magical thing helped that more favorable basis: reinvestment of dividends. I love dividends, as everyone should.

Take a look at the dividend history of Coca-Cola. Think of its focused business (it is arguably even more focused than PepsiCo because it doesn't have a snack division [and yes, that is quite the biased comment since KO doesn't have one of those]). Think of the value inherent in its brand. Do a run of its valuation.

I think Coca-Cola's stock will be stuck in the doldrums for a long, long time. Case-volume metrics need to improve substantially. That's going to take a lot of marketing muscle.

But I'm holding for the long-term. So, I'd urge people looking to buy a stock for retirement to at least look at Coca-Cola.

Unquestionably one of the safer picks, as well as johnson and Johnson (JNJ) and Proctor and Gamble (PG). with consumer staples. Safer picks usually do well in bear markets, so I'm counting on this stock to outperform. I feel good about it. Its dividend investment program means you can get more bang for your buck.

Coke has been so out of favor the last 2-3 years, that the luck has to change. This is one of those good/ great stocks that has been weak lately, but NOW is the time for some good improvment.

This a play to the defensive side of my portfolio. The stock has one of the best international exposure and the continued weak dollar really helps this company. Coke, what can you say about the name. Everyone is going to continue to drink soda. A great company. Buy in this weakness for your long term portfolio

If your grandfather bought one share of Coca-Cola and held it for you all these years, you would be very, very wealthy. People all over the world consume Coke products everyday, in good times and bad.

The stock price has been stagnant for several years despite a strong turnaround in earnings. The management team is top notch as well and I believe that we will see the historical trend of Coke outperforming the market come back to the norm in the near future.