Coca-Cola Stock: Is The Dividend Safe?

seekingalpha2021-04-22

Summary On its face, Coca-Cola has a nice 3+ percent dividend. Digging into the financials, KO trades for a very high P/E given its fundamentals and the dividend payout ratio has steadily risen over ...

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WWTan
2021-04-23
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EstherPang
2021-04-23
EstherPang
Wow..
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  [微笑]
kino318
2021-04-23
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  done.
我是小旸
2021-04-23
我是小旸
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BpchuA
2021-04-23
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Crazy
PJoo
2021-04-23
PJoo
Yet coke has proven its self for decades. $Coca-Cola(KO)$

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Over the long term, I find the valuation and dividend policy in Coca-Cola a bit perplexing. Upon thinking a bit more, it makes sense to me. KO is held by a lot of mutual funds and ETFs due to being a large company that belongs to several popular groups of stocks. Academic research shows that investors prefer the shares of companies that are large, popular, and familiar, while companies with the opposite characteristics tend to have better long-run returns, all else being equal. Coca-Cola is a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, meaning that investors will buy the stock because it's well known, and ETFs that track the Dow will automatically have KO as a component. The Dow Jones Industrial SPDR ETF (DIA) is a prime example, with over $29 billion in AUM. This creates price-insensitive buyers for KO stock. Additionally, the company is a dividend aristocrat, which means that every ETF that tracks the dividend aristocrat ETF automatically has to buy in as well. To these points, it is mission-critical that KO can maintain the dividend and raise it at least 1 cent every year to remain a part of the dividend aristocrat list.\nHere is Coca-Cola's net income over time.\nSource: Macrotrends\nTo me, KO should trade as a value stock, but the company is valued as a growth stock. This is the exact opposite of what I look for in a company. I view this as offering asymmetric downside to shareholders. Keep in mind that KO's net income is ostensibly benefitting from the Trump tax cuts as well, with the corporate tax rate dropping from 35 percent to 21 percent. This boosted S&P 500 earnings ~20 percent across the board, although it isn't clear if the tax cuts helped KO as much from looking at their financial statements (KO seemed to have had a very low tax rate before).\nConclusion: Is Coca-Cola a good dividend stock?\nInvesting is a game that is played for money, and investors can learn a lot from studying other games. Value investing is a lot like sports betting, where you have to compare the valuation of a company to how good the business is likely to do–just as sports bettors have to compare teams to their point spreads and money-line odds. Portfolio strategy is like poker, where an understanding of basic math and psychology helps you win. Accounting and reading financial statements are like chess, in that if you don't understand the themes of what is going on, you're likely to fall into traps and lose quickly to better-informed parties. In the case of KO, the valuation is high, the psychology of popularity means that the company is likely to be valued higher than it otherwise would be (with downside to this if the company loses popularity), and the financial statements show that dividend investors may not be aware of the stagnation in company performance. 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