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🥤🛡️📈 $KO: Dividend Royalty, PEG Discount, and Breakout Potential Before 13 June 🛡️📈🥤

When the market plays short-term roulette, I’m hunting for consistency, compounding, and quiet dominance. Coca-Cola ($KO) delivers all three. With its ex-dividend date looming on 13 June 25, I’m adding more to my portfolio, albeit split between brokers, and here’s why I believe KO belongs in every serious portfolio right now!!

🧾 A Business Built for Any Environment

Coca-Cola’s moat is legendary! It’s not just soda, it’s a global consumer staple empire with household brands like Powerade, Minute Maid, Dasani, and Schweppes. The company has operated with a laser focus on marketing, licensing, and global scale rather than manufacturing risk.

Even with inflation and tariffs, Coca-Cola is relatively insulated due to its bottling model. Most production happens locally, so tariff friction is low and margins are defended.

🧠 PEG Ratio Screams Undervalued

Looking for growth at a reasonable price? KO trades at a PEG of just 1.5x, using LTM P/E to 1Y forward EPS growth. For a company with this level of stability and margin power, that’s rare air.

Chart watchers, take note:

1. KO is in an inverse head and shoulders consolidation near ATHs

2. The right shoulder is forming with tight price action, indicating strong buyer conviction

3. A breakout above the descending neckline and horizontal $72 could trigger a sharp leg higher

💸 Dividend Royalty, Reinvestment Magic

This isn’t just another 2.8% yield. KO has raised its dividend for 63 straight years, and pays from earnings, not debt. February’s 5.2% hike is proof of strength, not just tradition.

And the secret weapon? Reinvestment.

A $10,000 investment in Coca-Cola in 1962, with dividends reinvested, would be worth over $2.1M by 2012. Without reinvestment? Less than half. This is how generational wealth is built, slowly, consistently, and passively.

📊 KO vs PEP: The Great Divergence

In 2025, KO has surged +19.05%, while PepsiCo ($PEP) has dropped -25.45%. That’s a 44.5% spread in performance between two supposed peers.

📈 KO: $71.78

Support: $71.73

Resistance: $71.79

Analyst Target: $77.91 (mean), $86.00 (high)

Market Cap: $263.76B

FA Score: 3 Green, 2 Red

TA Score: 5 Bullish, 4 Bearish

Even factoring in a market-wide stall, KO is quietly consolidating near highs while PEP is in a clear downtrend. Fundamentals, technicals, and sentiment are aligned.

📆 KO in My Passive Income Strategy

For monthly dividend income, KO is a September payer in the dividend rotation.

But I’m buying now ahead of the June 13 ex-dividend. Let the passive income stack while others hesitate.

🏛️ Stability Is a Superpower

Consumer staples like KO have nearly matched the S&P 500 since 2007. That’s not a fluke, it’s a reminder that boring can beat brilliant, especially in uncertain macro climates.

🧃 Bonus Add: $COKE Coca-Cola Consolidated

With the stock down 90% yesterday (10-for-1 split glitch), I can't resist adding 26 shares and have just opened positions in Overnight trading. Yes, the 9% yield and 2x PE are not real, but the support zone below split-adjusted $112 is real. Many traders likely bought pre-split expecting a pop, and panic-sold when it didn’t materialise.

Domestic bottlers like $COKE remain a smart second-tier exposure to the KO brand machine.

🚀 Final Word: Boring, Beautiful, and Breaking Out

Coca-Cola is where cash hides when chaos reigns. With solid fundamentals, a PEG under 2x, a breakout setup, and a legacy of shareholder rewards, KO is one of the few names that gives you compounding, capital preservation, and peace of mind.

I’m not chasing hype. I’m buying legacy! Buffet legacy 🥂 🥤If Warren’s sipping from the same bottle, who else is ready to join me at the dividend fountain before June 13? ⛲️💰

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