Beverage company Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) will be reporting earnings this Tuesday before market open. Here’s what investors should know.
Coca-Cola beat analysts’ revenue expectations last quarter, reporting revenues of $12.47 billion, up 11.2% year on year. It was a very strong quarter for the company, with a solid beat of analysts’ organic revenue estimates and a beat of analysts’ EPS estimates.
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This quarter, the market is expecting Coca-Cola’s revenue to grow 4% year on year, improving from the 2.5% increase it recorded in the same quarter last year.
Analysts covering the company have generally reconfirmed their estimates over the last 30 days, suggesting they anticipate the business will stay the course heading into earnings. Coca-Cola rarely misses Wall Street’s revenue estimates.
Looking at Coca-Cola’s peers in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment, some have already reported their Q2 results, giving us a hint as to what we can expect. Vita Coco delivered year-on-year revenue growth of 28.1%, beating analysts’ expectations by 3%, and Philip Morris reported revenues up 10.4%, topping estimates by 5.5%. Vita Coco traded down 11.4% following the results while Philip Morris was up 1.6%.
Read our full analysis of Vita Coco’s results here and Philip Morris’s results here.
Investors in the beverages, alcohol, and tobacco segment have had steady hands going into earnings, with share prices flat over the last month. Coca-Cola’s stock price was unchanged during the same time and is heading into earnings with an average analyst price target of $88.30 (compared to the current share price of $82.24).
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