Coca-Cola Company (The)

About Coca-Cola Company (The)

The Coca-Cola Company sells beverages under brands including Coca-Cola and earns revenue from concentrate and syrup sales to independent bottlers, as well as finished beverages sold through its own bottling operations. Its portfolio spans sparkling soft drinks, water, sports drinks, juice, dairy and other beverages. Customers include bottlers, retailers, restaurants and consumers worldwide. The concentrate business monetizes brands and recipes through bottler relationships; finished-product and bottling operations add direct beverage sales. Coca-Cola reports geographic operations alongside bottling investments and other activities. In FY2025, it generated $47.9 billion in revenue and $13.1 billion in net income, compared with $47.1 billion and $10.6 billion, respectively, in FY2024.

Notable Price Movement

1. Oct 26-30$94.081.48%

   KO fell 2.64%, from $95.34 to $92.82 over the stated interval. Shares dropped to $92.71 on October 23, were nearly flat Monday at $92.70, then slid to $91.18 Tuesday before recovering over the next two sessions to $92.82. The Tuesday decline came even as major U.S. indexes rallied, leaving KO weaker than the broader market that day. Company news was positive: Q3 coverage reported earnings and revenue above estimates, 5% global volume growth and a raised 2026 outlook. Those results did not prevent the stock from falling early in the week; the supplied evidence identifies no company-specific negative catalyst for the decline. The late-week rebound recovered part, but not all, of the loss.

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2. Oct 19-23$92.711.27%

   KO rose 4.04%, from $89.79 to $93.42, over the supplied October 12–19 closes. The shares advanced each day from October 12 through October 16, reaching $93.90, then slipped 0.5% on October 19 and gave back a small part of the run-up. No supplied evidence confirms a company-specific announcement behind the move. The clearest contemporaneous theme was anticipation of Q3 results: 24/7 Wall St. highlighted projections for sales above $12.9 billion and the prospect of another strong earnings report, while a Globe and Mail article described mixed trends ahead of results. Investor’s Business Daily also characterized KO as breaking out amid broader market volatility, but the evidence does not establish that market conditions drove this week’s gain.

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3. Oct 12-16$93.906.64%

   Coca-Cola gained 3.79%, rising from $86.51 to $89.79. The main company-specific catalyst was its U.S. KFC beverage partnership, which ends PepsiCo’s nearly 40-year relationship with the restaurant chain and prompted a wave of coverage describing the win as a growth opportunity. The stock fell for three sessions, from $86.51 on October 5 to $85.82 on October 7, then reversed higher: it closed at $87.77 on October 8, $88.05 on October 9 and $89.79 on October 12. Coverage also highlighted KO’s strength on a consumer-staples day and noted that it rose while the broader market fell, suggesting a defensive-sector tailwind alongside deal-driven interest. The supplied evidence does not quantify the contract’s revenue impact.

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4. Oct 5-9$88.052.80%

   KO fell $0.67, or 0.77%, from $86.84 on September 29 to $86.17 on October 6. The evidence supplied does not identify a company-specific catalyst for the decline. Shares slipped to $85.65 by October 2, then rebounded 1.0% to $86.51 on October 5 before giving back part of that gain in the next session. Trading volume rose across the September 30–October 5 sessions, peaking at 21.3 million shares on October 5, but the supplied data do not establish a cause for the moves. No broader-market performance or sector context is provided, so the week's trading cannot be tied to a market-wide driver from this evidence.

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5. Sep 28 - Oct 2$85.652.46%

   KO fell 2.27% over the week, from $88.10 to $86.10. The stock declined at each reported close, slipping from $87.18 on Monday to $86.08 on Wednesday before edging up two cents on Thursday; trading volume rose to 18.7 million shares on Thursday. The supplied evidence identifies no company-specific announcement or event explaining the decline. Broader consumer-staples commentary in the evidence cites falling consumer sentiment, inflation concerns and renewed rate-hike worries as investor headwinds, but it does not establish that these factors drove KO’s weekly trading. The steady daily retreat, rather than a sharp news-driven reversal, characterized the move.

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6. Sep 21-25$87.810.50%

   KO rose 0.25%, from $87.87 to $88.09, on the supplied weekly comparison. Trading within the listed sessions was choppy: shares fell to $87.12 on Monday, September 21, rebounded to $88.61 on Tuesday, then gave back part of that gain to close at $88.09 on Wednesday. The listed closes show no sustained directional move. Company headlines included Coca-Cola’s plan to bring back Monster Energy’s Americas CEO to lead its North America unit, while TD Cowen reiterated its Buy rating; the evidence does not establish either as a driver of the share-price moves. No market benchmark or broader market catalyst is provided to explain the weekly change.

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7. Sep 7-11$88.290.25%

   Coca-Cola shares fell $0.31, or 0.35%, from $88.67 to $88.36 over the week. Trading was choppy: the stock declined to $88.00 on September 1, recovered to $88.81 by September 3, then gave back that gain in the subsequent session before ending at $88.36 on September 8. The supplied evidence identifies no company-specific announcement, earnings release, contract, or guidance change during the period. Instead, the move appears to reflect routine trading and broader market conditions, with daily volume ranging from 13.8 million to 19.4 million shares. Investor attention remained focused on Coca-Cola’s dividend appeal, valuation, and generally positive analyst sentiment, but none of the supplied articles provides a concrete weekly catalyst.

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8. Aug 31 - Sep 4$88.071.77%

   KO fell $0.25, or 0.28%, from $89.06 to $88.81 over the week. The main move was a sharp 1.11% decline on Monday to $88.67, followed by another 0.76% drop Tuesday to $88.00. Shares then stabilized and recovered on Wednesday and Thursday, gaining 0.92% across the two sessions, but remained below the prior close. The supplied evidence identifies no company-specific earnings release, guidance change, contract, or management announcement explaining the trading. The move therefore appears to have occurred amid broader valuation sensitivity after Coca-Cola’s 26% 2026 advance and a market backdrop still focused on artificial-intelligence leadership, with consumer staples attracting selective investor interest.

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9. Aug 24-28$89.661.58%

   KO fell $1.44, or 1.59%, over the week, from $90.50 to $89.06. The stock initially rallied 1.64% to $91.99 on Monday, following a Zacks upgrade to Rank #2 (Buy) that reflected greater optimism about earnings prospects. It then slipped 0.38% Tuesday before declining 1.70% Wednesday and another 1.13% Thursday, giving back all of Monday’s gain and closing below the prior Friday level. The evidence does not identify a company-specific catalyst for the later reversal: Zacks separately reported a 1.62% decline in its latest-session commentary, while the supplied evidence provides no broad-market index performance or other market driver for the week.

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10. Aug 17-21$91.103.87%

    KO rose $3.08, or 3.52%, over the week, ending at $90.50 versus $87.42 before the period. The move began with a $0.44 Monday pullback, then reversed sharply: Tuesday added $1.84, Wednesday $1.53 and Thursday $0.15. Trading volume also increased from 12.1 million shares Monday to 14.9 million Thursday, peaking at 16.0 million Wednesday. No company-specific announcement is identified in the supplied evidence. The most visible supports were favorable stock commentary, including Buy-oriented brokerage coverage and dividend-focused articles highlighting Coca-Cola’s brand portfolio, margins and 64-year dividend-raise streak. The rally therefore appears sentiment-led rather than tied to a newly disclosed operating catalyst.

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11. Aug 10-14$87.710.76%

    KO rose $0.01, or 0.01%, over the supplied week, moving from $86.86 to $86.87. Trading was subdued: the stock fell to $86.56 on Tuesday, recovered to $86.83 on Wednesday, edged higher through Thursday, and reached $87.05 on Friday before slipping on Monday. No supplied evidence ties those daily changes to a specific company announcement, earnings release, guidance change, analyst action, or transaction. News coverage focused on valuation, European leadership changes, insider selling, and comparisons with PepsiCo, but the evidence does not establish that any item drove trading. With no market-index or sector-performance data provided, the week is best characterized as essentially flat and catalyst-light.

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12. Aug 3-7$87.050.62%

    Coca-Cola fell $1.71, or 1.94%, from $88.27 to $86.56 over the reported week. The stock initially gained $0.81 to $89.08 on July 29, but that advance reversed as shares declined on each subsequent session, including a $0.90 drop on July 31 and further losses on August 3-4. The evidence does not identify a company-specific earnings release, guidance change, or contract behind the reversal. The only explicit stock-related action was Argus raising its price target to $97 from $91 on July 30, which did not prevent the decline. Trading instead occurred amid broader narratives favoring defensive consumer staples during weak consumer confidence and alternatives to the AI trade.

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