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Company snapshot — The Coca-Cola Company

KO in five paragraphs: what it makes and sells, where it sits in the Closelook stack, who it is priced against, why we track it, what we watch. Research diary, not advice.

What it does
Coca-Cola manufactures and sells nonalcoholic beverages worldwide, spanning sparkling soft drinks, water, sports drinks, coffee, tea, juice, dairy and plant-based lines. It sells concentrate and syrup to bottling partners, distributors and fountain retailers, who handle much of the actual production and delivery. Brands include Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Costa and Topo Chico. It is headquartered in Atlanta.
Where it sits in the stack
Coca-Cola sits outside the AI build-out; it belongs to the consumer defensive sleeve of our universe, in the beverages-non-alcoholic industry, and holds a seat in the Dow Jones Industrial Average rather than any Closelook build-out index.
Who it is priced against
Closelook has not assigned it to a defined peer group; the comparison the market most often draws is with PepsiCo.
Why Closelook tracks it
It is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent and carries no Closelook score. The diary has quoted it twice, both times as the steady, low-volatility example inside covered-call income strategies.
What the diary watches
Whether its low implied volatility holds, since that low-vol status is what makes it useful as the reference name in the diary's income-strategy pieces.

The Coca-Cola Company (KO) trades on US exchanges.

Written from the company’s public profile and Closelook’s own readings, 2026-09-17. Descriptive, refreshed with the registry; corrections welcome via the imprint. closelook.net is an investment research diary — market structure, index membership and scores are our own readings, not investment advice. Related: KO news on the tape · index compare · sector dispersion · scanner.

Signals for this name

Every Closelook reading that exists for KO, from the same nightly bakes the boards use. Research diary readings, not advice.

Who it is priced against Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · US · 7 names with week and year-to-date

Peer group

Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · US

This name carries no Closelook score, so its cohort ranks on trend state — distance to the 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score it does not have.

Compared against KO on the nightly bakes; the Peers tab ranks the cohort on the Closelook scores where it exists.

Dividends and capital return trailing yield 2.38%, quarterly · last 0.53 USD on 2026-09-15

Dividends and capital return

What KO pays out and buys back — distributions read from the price series, money terms from the filings.

  • Trailing 12 months 2.10 USD per share · a 2.38% yield on the 2026-09-18 close 4 distributions, paid quarterly 2026-09-18
  • Change on the year +4.2% against the prior twelve months prior twelve months 2.01 USD per share
  • Last distribution 0.53 USD per share as the price series records it, within days of the ex-date 2026-09-15
  • By calendar year 2023: 0.46 USD (partial) · 2024: 1.94 USD · 2025: 2.04 USD · 2026: 1.59 USD to date first distribution recorded in the three-year window: 2023-11-30

Per-share amounts are derived from the adjusted price series in the listing currency, so dates sit within days of the ex-date; filing figures come from the fundamentals feed for the last reported fiscal year. An investment diary, not a recommendation.

Weather around the name 3 macro readings: Money Temperature, Factor regime, Sovereign pressure

The weather around this name

Macro readings that apply by membership — the regime, the factor tape, the sector cell, the funding backdrop.

  • Money Temperature Composite 50/100 · S&P 500 fund at 49, above its 50- and 200-day averagesEight instruments scored on position, momentum, volume, volatility and fragility — the regime every name trades inside. Temperature lab → 2026-09-18
  • Factor regime Momentum leading — risk appetite buildingMomentum against low volatility (SPMO / SPLV): above its 50-day trend, 97th percentile of the window, +4.9% over 20 sessions. Factor regime → 2026-09-18
  • Sovereign pressure Index 0.07 · down 0.41 over 21 sessionsG7 long-end yields, 10s30s and the slope — the funding weather for every balance sheet on this site. Sovereign pressure → 2026-09-18

FAQ · from the current data · as of 2026-09-19

Quick answers

What is The Coca-Cola Company (KO)?

The Coca-Cola Company trades as KO on the US exchange (US) in the Closelook research universe, as of the registry build of 2026-09-19.

Is KO in a Closelook index?

Not currently — The Coca-Cola Company is tracked in the Closelook research universe but is not a constituent of a Closelook functional index as of 2026-09-19.

Where does KO trade against its moving averages?

Uptrend stack intact: Trades +1.4% vs the 50-day and +11.8% vs the 200-day average, 4.6% below the 52-week high and +36.9% off the 52-week low. Computed from daily closes. As of 2026-09-18 — a technical state from the nightly Closelook bake, not advice. The Technical tab carries the full row.

What does The Coca-Cola Company do?

Coca-Cola manufactures and sells nonalcoholic beverages worldwide, spanning sparkling soft drinks, water, sports drinks, coffee, tea, juice, dairy and plant-based lines. It sells concentrate and syrup to bottling partners, distributors and fountain retailers, who handle much of the actual production and delivery. Brands include Coca-Cola, Sprite, Fanta, Minute Maid, Costa and Topo Chico. Closelook has not assigned it to a defined peer group; the comparison the market most often draws is with PepsiCo.

Where does The Coca-Cola Company sit in the AI build-out?

Coca-Cola sits outside the AI build-out; it belongs to the consumer defensive sleeve of our universe, in the beverages-non-alcoholic industry, and holds a seat in the Dow Jones Industrial Average rather than any Closelook build-out index. It is a Dow Jones Industrial Average constituent and carries no Closelook score. The diary has quoted it twice, both times as the steady, low-volatility example inside covered-call income strategies.

Does The Coca-Cola Company pay a dividend?

The Coca-Cola Company has paid 2.10 USD per share over the last twelve months, paid quarterly, a trailing yield of 2.38% on the 2026-09-18 close; the last distribution recorded in the price series was 0.53 USD on 2026-09-15. The "Dividends and capital return" block on this page carries the lines.

Where has Closelook written about The Coca-Cola Company?

The Coca-Cola Company appears in 2 Closelook pieces, most recently Strategy: Covered Calls for Income — the Dividend Aristocrats Approach (2026-05-22); Strategy: Covered Calls for Premium Harvest — Quantum, AI, and the High-Beta End (2026-05-22). What Closelook said most recently: You own 100 shares of a stock — call it KO at $65. (Strategy, 2026-05-22). The "Mentioned on Closelook" block on this page lists the long reads, the reference entries and the dailies that name it.

What does this page show?

A live price chart with SMA overlays and drawing tools for KO, performance metrics, index-membership context and the Closelook structure read — an investment research diary view, not investment advice.

Mentioned on Closelook 2 pieces · newest: Strategy, “Covered Calls for Income — the Dividend Aristocrats Approach” (2026-05-22)

Mentioned on Closelook

Where KO appears in the diary — 2 pieces, newest first. Every link is our own writing.

Long reads

Related in the Closelook universe

then Beverages - Non-Alcoholic, then Consumer Defensive. Scored names rank on their Closelook score; names without one rank on trend state — above or below their 50- and 200-day averages — never on a score they do not carry.