Coca Cola (KO) Offering Possible 6.61% Return Over the Next 20 Calendar Days

Coca Cola's most recent trend suggests a bearish bias. One trading opportunity on Coca Cola is a Bear Call Spread using a strike $45.50 short call and a strike $50.50 long call offers a potential 6.61% return on risk over the next 20 calendar days. Maximum profit would be generated if the Bear Call Spread were to expire worthless, which would occur if the stock were below $45.50 by expiration. The full premium credit of $0.31 would be kept by the premium seller. The risk of $4.69 would be incurred if the stock rose above the $50.50 long call strike price.

The 5-day moving average is moving down which suggests that the short-term momentum for Coca Cola is bearish and the probability of a decline in share price is higher if the stock starts trending.

The 20-day moving average is moving down which suggests that the medium-term momentum for Coca Cola is bearish.

The RSI indicator is at 31.48 level which suggests that the stock is neither overbought nor oversold at this time.

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LATEST NEWS for Coca Cola

Here’s why Coca-Cola is muscling into the coffee-shop business in a big way
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:51:00 +0000
To get through this last workday before the long weekend, Coke’s management just ordered up a big serving of coffee. Our call of the day explains why.

Coke Adds Coffee Giant Costa to Drinks Portfolio After $5 Billion Whitbread Deal
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:49:00 +0000
Coke adds more caffeine to the portfolio. said Friday that it will purchase the Costa brand of coffee stores, the world's second largest behind Starbucks Corp. The deal, which will see Coca-Cola pay around 16.4 times Costa's full-year operating earnings, inferring an enterprise value of £3.9 billion ($5 billion) has been fully-approved by the Whitbread board but is subject to the agreement of the company's shareholders, who are set to receive a “significant” portion of the cash from the deal.

Coca-Cola Digs Into Coffee With $5.1 Billion Costa Purchase
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:42:37 +0000
Aug.31 — Coca-Cola Co. agreed to buy the U.K. chain Costa Coffee for 3.9 billion pounds ($5.1 billion), stepping into a battle with Starbucks Corp. as it gains a global brand in hot drinks. Lisa Pham reports on "Bloomberg Markets: European Open."

Coca-Cola takes plunge into coffee with 3.9-billion-pound Costa deal
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:33:25 +0000
The purchase from Britain's Whitbread (WTB.L) of Costa's almost 4,000 outlets thrusts the world's biggest soda company into one of the few bright spots in the sluggish packaged food and drinks sector. Paying about 1 billion pounds more than some analysts had expected, Coke will use its distribution network to supercharge Costa's expansion as it chases current coffee chain market leader Starbucks (SBUX.O) and its almost 29,000 stores across 77 markets. Beyond coffee shops, Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey, himself a Briton who is familiar with the Costa brand, said Costa would provide an important growth platform ranging from beans to bottled drinks in what is one of the world's fastest-growing drink categories, growing 6 percent.

Trump and Trade, Coca-Cola, Tesla, Lululemon – 5 Things You Must Know
Fri, 31 Aug 2018 09:30:00 +0000
U.S. stock futures edged lower on Friday, Aug. 31, and global stocks retreated for a second consecutive session as investors reacted to aggressive comments on trade and tariffs from Donald Trump. In an interview with Bloomberg Television, Trump reiterated his threat to pull the U.S. out of the World Trade Organization, and said he was ready to slap his administration's planned tariffs on $200 billion worth of China-made goods if officials in Beijing don't accelerate concessions in the stalled trade talks. Trump's comments were made just hours ahead of a self-imposed deadline to wrap up three-way trade talks with Canada and Mexico as part of an overhaul of the current NAFTA arrangement.

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