The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO), the world’s largest maker of beverages announced its plan to cut 750 jobs in the United States as it continue to restructure its business operations, according to reportfrom the Associated Press.
A spokesperson of the company said that a quarter of the workforce reduction will be in Coca-Cola’s headquarters, and it will across the board. All of the affected employees will receive a notice from the management of the beverage maker in the next several weeks.
The Coca Cola Company (NYSE:KO) total workforce in North America is approximately 75,000 and the job cuts represent 1 percent.
Last month, the beverage maker sent a memo to its employees and indicated that it had identified several areas in the business operation of the company that needs improvement since acquiring the North American operations in 2010, which it the largest bottler of The Coca Cola Company (NYSE;KO).
The company’s memo also said that it was restructuring its business operations in the United States from seven geographies down to three geographies to reflect the successful structure of its food-service business. In addition, Coca-Cola noted that it was able to generate profits in a year “marked with continued uncertainty in the global economy.”
n 2012, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) reported a global sales growth of 4 percent driven by the Coca Cola brand. The beverage maker posted $1.97 earnings per share for the full year and its comparable EPS was $2.01. The results were up 6 percent and 5 percent respectively.
The Coca-Cola Company had been consolidating its global bottling system in Brazil, Japan and a majority of its interest in Philippine bottling operations was sold to Coca-Cola FEMSA. The sale was completed last January 2013.
Yesterday
The allure of Wall Street is strong. The minute by minute news bites are exciting and the plethora of people involved in the slightest movement of the market are entrancing. They know their audience and how to draw you in into their captivating world.
This was coke a few weeks ago
Earnings
season has begun, and next Tuesday
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) will release its latest quarterly results. The key to making smart investment decisions on stocks reporting earnings is to anticipate how they'll do
before they announce results, leaving you fully prepared to respond quickly to whatever surprises inevitably arise. That way, you'll be less likely to make an uninformed, knee-jerk decision.
The Coca-Cola
Company (NYSE:KO) has the No. 1 brand in the world, and it represents the soft-drink industry in the
Dow Jones Industrial Average. The stock has been on fire lately as investors look past lingering concerns about consumer demand and whether regulators and consumer groups will challenge its products due to health-related issues. But will that enthusiasm last, or will continued weak sales in the U.S. hurt the company's overall earnings prospects? Let's take an early look at what's been happening with The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) over the past quarter and what we're likely to see in its quarterly report.
| Analyst EPS Estimate | $0.45 |
| Change From Year-Ago EPS | 2.3% |
| Revenue Estimate | $11.05 billion |
| Change From Year-Ago Revenue | (0.8%) |
| Earnings Beats in Past 4 Quarters | 2 |
Source: Yahoo! Finance.
Will The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO) fizz or fizzle out this quarter? Analysts have let their earnings estimates for Coke go a bit flat in recent months. They've dropped their earnings calls for the just-finished quarter by a penny per share and reined in their full-year 2013 estimates by $0.03 per share. Yet the stock has barely blinked, rising more than 10% since early January.
Coca-Cola has done an incredible job of taking its iconic U.S. brand and translating it to different populations and cultures around the world. Nearly 80% of The Coca-Cola Company (
NYSE:KO)'s case volume comes from outside North America, and its products can be found in more than 200 countries. Moreover, The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO)'s fastest growth has come from abroad: During 2012, volume grew 11% in Eurasia and Africa and 5% in Latin America.
Coke's global expansion hasn't come without some hiccups along the way. Last month,
Chinese authorities accused the beverage maker's employees of improperly using GPS equipment to illegally gather classified information. Nevertheless, with Coke, Sprite, and Minute Maid all remaining extremely popular in the emerging-market giant, Coca-Cola's Chinese growth prospects remain strong.
Still, Coke's biggest fight is closer to
home, as falling soft-drink consumption has hurt both it and rival
PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP). Moreover, with a
high-profile regulatory attempt in New York City to limit sugary-drink consumption, investors are realizing that Coke could become a target across the nation. PepsiCo, Inc. (NYSE:PEP) is fortunate enough to have its global snack business to fall back on, helping to cushion the full blow of any setback in the beverage segment. But Coke's concentration in drinks could hurt its U.S. sales to a greater extent.
In Coca-Cola's quarterly report, watch for the company to address how it plans to handle the controversial energy-drink segment. With energy drink makers facing even more serious health concerns than the overall beverage
industry, Coke will need to plot a careful path in order to maximize its potential in the high-growth area of the beverage market.
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Below is coke today as we have been keeping a close eye on its Price moments ahead of it Price earnings on Tuesday
With such huge upside potential it hard no to wonder
The real question at the core of this is ‘what do you want from your investments?’ Do you want a source of entertainment or a solid portfolio to build your future? Answering these questions is paramount as to how you interpret the unending information that comes from Wall Street.
If you believe, as Warren Buffett and Peter Lynch believe, that true value
from a stock comes from owing a part of a company and watching that company grow, then the ticker tape means little to you. You will get more from the periodic company
earnings reports, and your time will be better spent in analyzing their contents than what Wall Street said five minutes ago.
Fortunes are not made overnight, they are tended and watered and eventually grow up much like I hope my teenagers eventually will.
As I contemplate these questions fro myself, I look at companies built to last not just beyond the next stock turnover, but for this earnings season and many more to come.
So in our journey to find companies that will last, the most important factor is to follow the money, so to speak. That means companies which
make money, year over year, and don’t squander it or build up debt trying to expand their operations.
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE:KO)
This stock is a Warren Buffett darling. The company, started by a pharmacist in Georgia in 1886, has grown into an international brand. The company has built a sustainable competitive advantage, and because it is affordable and consumable, it means
customers need to keep coming back for more.
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