Corporate Factbook - #The Coca-Cola Company ($KO) Has A Target Price of $50,03

Check out today's Corporate Factbook of Coca Cola. 

The Coca-Cola Company (KO) Company Profile:
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and distributes various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides water, enhanced water, and sports drinks; juices; juice, dairy, and plant?based beverages; teas and coffees; and energy drinks. It also offers concentrates, syrups, beverage bases, source waters, and powders/minerals, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products primarily under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Fanta, Sprite, Minute Maid, Georgia, Powerade, Del Valle, Schweppes, Aquarius, Minute Maid Pulpy, Dasani, Simply, Glaceau Vitaminwater, Gold Peak, FUZE TEA, Glaceau Smartwater, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, and Ayataka brand names. The Coca-Cola Company offers its beverage products through a network of company-owned or controlled bottling and distribution operators, as well as through independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

Price: 44,51 Mean Analyst Target Price: 50,03

Market cap.: 189.75Billion| Sector: Consumer Goods | Industry: Beverages - Soft Drinks
Sales: 35.41Billion | Income: 4.76Billion

1-Year Price Range: 42.19 - 48.62 | 1-Y Performance: 3.7% | YTD Performance: -3.0%

Yield: 3.50% | P/E: 40,39 | Fwd. P/E 19,68 | P/S: 5,36 | P/B: 11,13

Key Ratios: 

Growth

Sales Growth Q/Q -20.20%

EPS Growth Q/Q 40.30%

EPS Growth This Year -26.40%

EPS Growth Next Year 7.97%

EPS Growth Next 5 Years    7.66%

Sales Growth Past 5 Years  -5.90%

EPS Growth Past 5 Years    -11.00%

Returns, Margin and Leverage

Return on Assets 1.40%

Return on Equity 5.90%

Gross Margin 62.60%

Return On Investment  12.50%

Operating Margin 28.20%

Profit Margin 3.50%

Debt-to-Equity Ratio  2,79

Per Share Data

Price 44,51

Analyst Target price  50,03

Cash per Share 4,86

Book Value Per share 4

EPS TTM 1,1

EPS Next Year 2,26

Dividend Payout 503.10%

Valuation

P/E 40,39

Forward P/E 19,68

Price to Sales 5,36

Price to Book 11,13

PEG 5,27

Beta 0,73

RSI 60,66

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Stock Compilation Of The Latest Dividend Raiser 2017

Every week there are dozens of companies that increase their dividend payout. Over the past week, there were several companies that raised their dividends to shareholders. I summarized them in a list in order to get a quick overview of the latest dividend raiser.

Most of those companies have lower yields, but pretty good rates of historical dividend growth. The companies are listed below:

20 Stocks With A Billion Dollar Buyback Program And Yields Over 2%

Let me ask you this: Would you rather buy a 10-year Treasury, which currently yields about 2%, or would you rather buy a large-cap stock with a 2% dividend yield, a billion-dollar stock buyback program, and share appreciation potential? 

With bond yields as low as they are, there's no contest. The Fed's zero interest rate policy has created a situation where there's nowhere to go except the stock market. 

Of course, the story will change once the Fed raises interest rates, which will make it more expensive for companies to borrow on the bond market. So there is a raging debate about when that will happen.

It is always better to own stocks in such situations. Those can hedge you against inflation. Fur sure, stocks are risky but if you look at the values of a company, and you avoid the big risks by not taking very cyclic stocks into your portfolio, you should be rewarded with a solid return.

Here are some alternatives with yields over 2% and a current buyback program worth over a billion dollar...

20 Stocks With At Least One Billion Share Buyback Plan In 2016

When corporations are profitable and established, they tend to return capital to shareholders. 

This can be achieved via stock buybacks to shrink the float and to support the stock, or it can be done via one-time dividends or by raising their annualized quarterly dividends.

In my blog, I often cover successful long-term dividend growth stocks. Those companies managed to raise dividends over a decade or half century.

I also talk a little about buyback stocks. Those gave more money back vie share repurchases which is in the end the same.

Today I would give you a short introduction into the biggest share buyback announced from the current fiscal year 2016.

As of now, we've noticed 94 companies with fresh, new, or increased buyback plans.

Here are the biggest announcements from fiscal 2016 to date...

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Dividends are so important for income investors, especially when you reinvest all of your fresh dividend payment to fund new stock positions.

Overall, dividends will provide about half the total returns for equity investors in the next decade, that's a major guide each analyst tells you when we are discussing the dividend growth strategies.

Today I like to refer a great basket from Goldman Sachs, the Dividend Growth Basket. Each stock of the list has a median yield of 2.5% and is expected to increase dividends by 16% in 2015 and 12% in 2016. The basket has a price-to-earnings ratio of 15 vs. 17.3 for the S&P.

That sounds very interesting, right? Well let us look at the detailed results. Here are the best picks from each industry. Which do you like?

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Goldman Sachs is projecting that nearly half of stock returns over the next decade will be from dividends. That's a huge number and based on historically data.

This is certainly good news for dividend investors. Unfortunately the stock market is trading at an elevated price-to-earnings ratio. As a result, total stock market returns are expected to average just 5% a year over the next decade.

If you are looking for more return, you must select the good stocks and eliminate the bad ones. By following the dividend growth rule, dividend growth stocks should perform better than the overall market.

Below are 10 that could fit the dividend growth rule. Which do you like?

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The market shows a clear signal that the interest rates should rise in the near future but what should this mean for your long-term orientated dividend growth stocks?

I believe that the high valuations must come down in some way. It could also be possible that the market prices stay stable due to a solid business growth and the high liquidity in the market. 

We still have dividend yields of more than 2 percent for the average market, that's a solid and defensible value during a market correction. What's your opinion about a rising interest rates? Should stocks fall or rise?

However, to stay productive, I've attached a few long-term orientated dividend growth stock ideas with low beta ratios and high dividend yields.

Each of them have raised dividends by more than five consecutive years and cover the market volatility with a beta ratio of less than 0.5.

These are the final criteria:
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- Market Cap over USD 10 billion
- Expected 5-Year earnings growth of more than 5 percent
- Forward P/E under 15

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The best yielding and biggest ex-dividend stocks researched by ”long-term-investments.blogspot.com”. Dividend Investors should have a quiet overview of stocks with upcoming ex dividend dates.

The ex dividend date is the final date on which the new stock buyer couldn’t receive the next dividend. If you like to receive the dividend, you need to buy the stock before the ex dividend date. I made a little screen of the best yielding stocks with a higher capitalization that have their ex date on the next trading day.

In total, 192 stocks, preferred shares or funds go ex dividend - of which 95 yield more than 3 percent. The average yield amounts to 6.02%. Here is a full list of all stocks with ex-dividend date within the current week.

Here is the sheet of the best yielding, higher capitalized ex-dividend stocks:

Company	Ticker	Mcap	P/E	P/B	P/S	Yield
Ares Capital Corporation	ARCC	4.72B	8.33	1.09	5.87	8.57%
Altria Group Inc.	MO	70.03B	15.97	19.65	2.88	5.49%
BCE, Inc.	BCE	33.62B	14.49	3.10	1.74	5.12%
Garmin Ltd.	GRMN	8.34B	15.80	2.48	3.12	4.22%
Equity One Inc.	EQY	2.54B	-	1.78	7.45	4.07%
DTE Energy Co.	DTE	11.61B	16.47	1.54	1.25	3.93%
Extra Space Storage Inc.	EXR	4.82B	33.60	3.15	10.27	3.69%
Northeast Utilities	NU	12.91B	16.58	1.37	1.80	3.59%
Merck & Co. Inc.	MRK	144.42B	28.56	3.04	3.22	3.58%
Rayonier Inc.	RYN	7.12B	21.25	4.56	4.33	3.47%
Dr Pepper Snapple Group, Inc.	DPS	9.09B	15.25	3.95	1.51	3.41%
Prologis, Inc.	PLD	18.12B	-	1.32	9.46	3.00%
UGI Corp.	UGI	4.44B	16.32	1.78	0.63	2.91%
The Coca-Cola Company	KO	171.75B	20.44	5.33	3.61	2.90%
Taubman Centers Inc.	TCO	4.41B	46.12	-	5.80	2.89%
NYSE Euronext, Inc.	NYX	10.26B	23.73	1.68	2.72	2.84%
Owens & Minor Inc.	OMI	2.18B	21.10	2.21	0.24	2.76%
Western Union Co.	WU	10.31B	11.75	11.11	1.86	2.69%
Fidelity National Financial, Inc.	FNF	5.60B	9.21	1.28	0.65	2.57%
Endurance Specialty Holdings	ENH	2.17B	16.19	0.80	0.95	2.52%