Coca-Cola's Premiumization Push: Smart Strategy or Risky Move?
KO is balancing premiumization with affordability, using brand strength, packaging variety and pricing to target consumers across income levels.
KO is balancing premiumization with affordability, using brand strength, packaging variety and pricing to target consumers across income levels.
These stocks have been going in opposite directions of late, and one offers a far higher yield than the other.
Andrew Sather says most investors only understand one of the two engines driving stock returns, and missing the second one is exactly why a name as familiar as Coca-Cola keeps catching people off guard.
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Coca-Cola is a well-run consumer staples Dividend King that is performing well as a business right now. The stock's recent run has been incredible compared to the average consumer staples stock.
Coca-Cola has been a consistent performer. PepsiCo, with an activist investor's encouragement, has made progress.
PepsiCo now offers a higher dividend yield at a lower valuation. A major Coca-Cola shareholder has not traded any shares since 1994.
Treasury yields near a one-year high are punishing most dividend stocks, but a handful of Dividend Kings kept signing bigger checks every single quarter without missing a beat. The question is whether their balance sheets can keep that streak alive.
Maximizing a portfolio's income output is obviously important to income-minded investors. Higher dividend yields alone, however, don't necessarily make a stock one worth owning.
Based on the current quarterly payout, investors would have to own 18,868 shares to make $40,000 in passive annual income Coca-Cola's 64-year streak of hiking its dividend is surely going to continue well into the future, given the company's strong competitive position and huge profits.
Some dividend stocks raise their payouts through one recession, maybe two.
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