{"id":84,"date":"2005-12-18T21:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-12-19T04:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/?p=84"},"modified":"2005-12-18T21:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-12-19T04:01:00","slug":"coca-cola-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/2005\/12\/18\/coca-cola-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Coca-Cola Company"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/mic\/files\/ssg\/ko_20051217.pdf\">SSG and PERT A (17 Dec 2005)<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?sourceid=navclient&#038;ie=UTF-8&#038;oe=UTF-8&#038;q=stocks%3A+ko\">Google &#8220;stocks: ko&#8221;<\/a> &nbsp;|&nbsp; <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.coca-cola.com\/investors\/index.html\n\">Company Website<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=ko\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coca-Cola Yahoo Finance\" title=\"Click for Yahoo! Finance page for Coca-Cola.\" src=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/mic\/files\/img\/ko.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"float: right; margin: 5px 5px 5px 15px;\" \/><\/a> The Coca-Cola Company (KO) engages in manufacturing, distributing, and marketing nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups worldwide. The company also produces, markets, and distributes juices and juice drinks, as well as water products. It sells beverage concentrates and syrups to bottling and canning operators, distributors, fountain wholesalers, and fountain retailers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Growth.<\/strong>  Value Line projects 3-5 year revenue growth of 6% and EPS growth of 75%.  Reuters reports an analysts consensus EPS growth of 8.7% (based on 6 analysts).  M* projects future growth at 5% and operating margins at 25%.  The attached SSG assumes revenue growth of 6% and EPS growth of 6.8%.  This resulting in a 5-yr EPS of $3.03.  <\/p>\n<p><DIV ALIGN=CENTER><a href=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/mic\/files\/ssg\/ko_20051217.pdf\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Coca-Cola Section 1\" title=\"SSG Section 1.  Click for full SSG and PERT.\" src=\"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/mic\/files\/img\/ko_part1_20051217.png\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin: 5px 5px 5px 0px;\" \/><\/a><\/DIV><\/p>\n<p><strong>Quality.<\/strong> Coca-Cola is a quality company.  Part 1 of the SSG shows consistent revenue and earnings growth.  From Part 2 of the SSG we see that MSFT has averaged a 35.2% return on equity over the last five years. Part 2 of the SSG and the PERT chart, and PERT graph (see attached SSG), show consistent pretax margins around 30%.  M* gives Coca-Cola a stewardship grade of C.  Value Line rates Coca-Cola&#8217;s financial strength A++ and earnings predictability of 90.  The Robertson quality rating is 82.1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Valuation.<\/strong>  Coca-Cola has a PAR of 12.7%  and TR of 18.1%.  See SSG.  (Manifest Investing projects PAR as 11.5%.)  U\/D ratio for Coca-Cola is 7.7 to 1 and the buy price using 25%-50%-25% zoning is $47.60.  (Current price is $41.21.) M* rates Coca-Cola undervalued with five stars.  While Coca-Cola is not a classic NAIC growth stock, it has the potential for a good return with little risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SSG and PERT A (17 Dec 2005) &nbsp;|&nbsp; Google &#8220;stocks: ko&#8221; &nbsp;|&nbsp; Company Website The Coca-Cola Company (KO) engages in manufacturing, distributing, and marketing nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups worldwide. The company also produces, markets, and distributes juices and juice drinks, as well as water products. It sells beverage concentrates and syrups to bottling and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockherd.com\/moosepond\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}