Stock in Coca-Cola?

Werp

Werp

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Depends what you goals are. Coke has a market cap of 192 billion, So most of the growth has already occurred. It's a fairly safe and stable but isn't going to make you rich. I always look at the chart both one year chart and the maximum amount of years its been a publicly traded company to get a good scope on the situation. That being said, TIMING IS EVERYTHING. If you would of invested in 2005, You could of doubled your money by now (nothing great but not bad) HOWEVER, if you would of invested back in 1998 , You would be BREAK EVEN right now.
 
Werp

Werp

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Corso, this is a good point, along with the fact that people are becoming more aware of just how bad soda is for you. However coke isn't just about soda, and if it was their stock price probably wouldn't be approaching a near all time high.
 
kmog33

kmog33

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Nope. I owned Coke stock my whole life until 2 years ago. They split their stock a few years ago to make it more affordable which devalued it a bit. I also got to work around their coo and a couple other of their higher ups when I was working on a project for them. The company is so fucked internally and is so disorganized and messy that the project we were working on got shut down twice because Coke couldn't follow through and make payments or deadlines on time. They also did a video shoot last year for their freestyle dispensers and ended up just not liking it. The reason for this was because the literally missed all of their opportunities for input on the project.

I don't know if it is because the company is so big and messy at this point, but they do not have their shit together.

For a reference, i owned 15,000 shares that had been reinvesting themselves for 10+ years. Worked with/around the company for 6 months and decided it was not a great investment.

If you want to make a bunch of money quick right now check out etherium. It's essentially new Bitcoin(very ugly simplification) but it's gone up $2 in the past 2 weeks. And is at like $5 from $0.33 when it started presale a little while ago.

Tesla also seems to be going up pretty steadily ATM. Very slowly though and is a bit more expensive to get into than ether.


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racerboy71

racerboy71

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Corso312 said:
Every city in America has or is instituting a soda tax.. I would think sales will decrease.. IMO coke is a bad investment, just like cigarettes.
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yep, philly is looking at putting a $.03 tax per ounce of soda tax on all non diet sodas.. it's not going over well being that coke has a big company located in philly..
 
Resinhound

Resinhound

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kmog33 said:
Nope. I owned Coke stock my whole life until 2 years ago. They split their stock a few years ago to make it more affordable which devalued it a bit. I also got to work around their coo and a couple other of their higher ups when I was working on a project for them. The company is so fucked internally and is so disorganized and messy that the project we were working on got shut down twice because Coke couldn't follow through and make payments or deadlines on time. They also did a video shoot last year for their freestyle dispensers and ended up just not liking it. The reason for this was because the literally missed all of their opportunities for input on the project.

I don't know if it is because the company is so big and messy at this point, but they do not have their shit together.

For a reference, i owned 15,000 shares that had been reinvesting themselves for 10+ years. Worked with/around the company for 6 months and decided it was not a great investment.

If you want to make a bunch of money quick right now check out etherium. It's essentially new Bitcoin(very ugly simplification) but it's gone up $2 in the past 2 weeks. And is at like $5 from $0.33 when it started presale a little while ago.

Tesla also seems to be going up pretty steadily ATM. Very slowly though and is a bit more expensive to get into than ether.


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15000 shares is over $600,000 worth of stock....as one of the only corporations offering increasing dividends over the last 55 years,its one of the reasons warren buffett invests heavily into coco cola.They make much more than just coco cola.
 
kmog33

kmog33

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Resinhound said:
15000 shares is over $600,000 worth of stock....as one of the only corporations offering increasing dividends over the last 55 years,its one of the reasons warren buffett invests heavily into coco cola.They make much more than just coco cola.
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I will say they the value never went down while I owned their stock.

And that etherium I mentioned btw is at around $12 now from .33.
 
kaka420

kaka420

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TJ baba said:
Thinking about purchasing stock in this company. Any tips for a young entrepreneur?
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You want advice? You got it...

Please stay the fuck out of the stock market, there is a very serious global crash about a hot fart away from taking down the global economy. Until you fully understand the epic fraud in the stock market, it is no place for investing your money. If you do buy shares please understand that you don't "own" them. You may want to research Cede & Co and the DTCC.

My advice would be to focus on investments you can hold in your hands. A poster mentioned silver, which is a great choice. I would highly recommend also buying small gold coins 1/20th-1/10th oz gold coins (reason: china and the new Chinese "comex" they are setting up). You can own an oz of silver for about $19, small gold around $150. This now becomes an asset you can hold in your hand, that a bank can't steal. If you buy the right coins you can see your money double and triple within 2-3 years (silver lunars, silver pandas, gold pandas, etc).

If you want to be an entrepreneur, start working on an idea, product or service you can develop. Investing in coke doesn't make you an entrepreneur, it would make you an uninformed investor imo. Be safe, there are sharks looking to take your money.
 
NVGrower

NVGrower

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TJ baba said:
Thinking about purchasing stock in this company. Any tips for a young entrepreneur?
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You should buy TVIX and hold onto as many shares as you can buy and hold them the next three to four months.

You make money off market volatility: when it drops and even better when it drops a lot and sharp. Your not short the market. Your trading a electronic fund that tracks futures prices of the VIX volatility index that it owns contracts of. When the price of those contracts fluctuates TVIX takes the % price movement and multiplies it by 2 so it considered high risk.

You cannot directly buy the VIX and can only own options contracts and futures contracts. This is advanced and you need to avoid it: these contracts expire at a certain date and are worthless but are leveraged and you can make good money; but buying shares of electronic funds and equities is a better bet: if your wrong you hold it until you can break even one day.

Don't get to excited, don't invest money your not willing to use, the stock market is not what it used to be when or parents were growing up; trade different electronic funds that align with an objective and buy them. If you insist on owning equity buy staple companies during bad times for their cycle and get them cheap and hold them for a few years and sell them when they're at the top of their next cycle according to past highs, current news and how much profit you've made.

You'll never really know anything so just watch, don't fall in love with a trade and stick with your original plan: buy and hold, hold for the day or get out with a stop loss.
 
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