§ BEVERAGES
USD · Beverages

KO

COCA-COLA CO/THE
USDSector · BeveragesMarket cap · $404.7BBeta · 0.29
LAST · MARKET CLOSE · NOV 02
94.08
+1.26 ▲ 1.36%PREV CLOSE · $92.82
§ 01 · PRICE
Price action
1D5D1M6MYTD1YMAX
OPEN 94.52HIGH 95.08LOW 93.9452W 67.27 — 95.37
EVENTSAUG 24 · PB SELLSEP 30 · EARNINGS +0.3%
§ 02 · AC TAKE
Where we stand
LAST UPDATED 1D

Coca-Cola carries a market cap of $404.7B and a P/E ratio of 27.9, which means buyers pay 27.9 dollars for each dollar of annual earnings.

The largest slice of ownership, 36.5%, sits in other_unclassified, a bucket our classifier could not sort, so over a third of the holder base is a blank. Among named groups, dealer_bank holds 16.2%, passive_index 13.4% and quality_compounder 11.0%. Dealer banks facilitate trades for clients, so their share may reflect inventory rather than conviction, and index funds own KO because it is in the index. Income_defensive holds 2.7%, tactical_macro 0.6%, systematic_quant 0.5%, deep_value 0.4%, activist 0.1% and growth_momentum 0.0%. The data shows no crowd of fast money and no activist of note. Institutional pressure is Neutral with a score of 0.00, and the market regime is Neutral at 0.12, which indicates neither big holders nor the broader tape are pushing KO hard in either direction. AcidCapitalist's recent coverage carried the headline on Iran contagion, sticky inflation and private credit cracks, with Alden seeing a multipolar reckoning arriving. Nothing supplied shows whether KO holders have reacted to that. Limits matter here. 13F ownership data is 45 to 90 days old, so holders may have moved since. Short interest is reported twice a month, and no short interest figure was supplied. All of this is historical, not predictive. The level to watch is the 0.12 regime score.

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§ 03 · SIGNAL STACK · WHAT THE INPUTS SAY

13F FLOW
1776 increased/new, 1395 decreased/exited (13F)
AC 13F Analysis
INSIDER
−$7M
3 txns · 90d
SHORT INT
3.0 days to cover
FINRA
OPTIONS SKEW
Put/call ratio 0.69
CBOE
ANALYST
29 buy, 6 hold, 0 sell
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§ 04 · FUNDAMENTALS · THE BOOKS

P/E27.9P/B9.35
EPS (TTM)3.39Dividend3.14%
◇ AC INTELLIGENCE

Coca-Cola carries a market cap of $404.7B and a P/E ratio of 27.9, which means buyers pay 27.9 dollars for each dollar of annual earnings. That is a full price for a company that sells flavoured sugar water, and the data does not say whether the multiple is earned. The material supplied carries no date for either figure.

§ 05 · WHO OWNS IT
Top institutional holders
All holders →
FundShares% portΔ Q/Q
Berkshire Hathaway400.0M11.6%±0%
BlackRock333.6M0.4%+5%
VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC237.5Mn/an/a
State Street167.2M0.4%−0%
Fidelity Management107.6M0.4%−2%
Vanguard Portfolio Management99.9Mn/an/a
◇ AC INTELLIGENCE

Top institutional owners for KO as of the most recent 13F reporting period (Q1 2026 · Period ended Mar 31). Δ Q/Q reflects share-count change vs. the prior filing — positive green means adding, negative red means trimming. Cross-reference with the ownership-mix bars below to see which strategy cohort is driving the flow.

§ 06 · WHO OWNS IT · BY STRATEGY

OTHER18.7% · 0 holders
OTHER36.5% · 3,205 holders
DEALER / BANK16.2% · 177 holders
PASSIVE / INDEX13.4% · 15 holders
QUALITY / COMPOUNDER11.0% · 48 holders
INCOME / DEFENSIVE2.7% · 72 holders
TACTICAL / MACRO0.6% · 7 holders
SYSTEMATIC / QUANT0.5% · 16 holders
DEEP VALUE0.4% · 4 holders
ACTIVIST0.1% · 1 holder
GROWTH / MOMENTUM0.0% · 2 holders
◇ AC INTELLIGENCE

Ownership mix by behavioral cohort. Top bars indicate which style of capital dominates the float — passive indexing, quality compounders, dealer/bank, systematic quant, etc. Big quality-compounder share means concentrated active conviction; heavy passive share means flows are dictated by index rebalances, not fundamentals.

§ 07 · INSIDER ACTIVITY · LAST 180 DAYS

DateInsiderActionShares$ value
AUG 24Pietracci BrunoSELL29K−$3M
AUG 11Ray SanketSELL10K−$861K
AUG 07Ortega LuisaSELL36K−$3M
AUG 03MURPHY JOHNSELL152K−$13M
JUL 30Quincey JamesSELL146K−$13M
JUL 29Pietracci BrunoSELL40K−$4M
◇ AC INTELLIGENCE

0 insider buys, 13 sells in the last 180 days. Scheduled 10b5-1 sales are pre-programmed and neutral; discretionary clusters are the tape worth reading. Cross-reference with the signal stack above for context.

§ 08 · COVERAGE · OUR RECENT NOTES