The Coca-Cola Company Share Price Today

(NASDAQ: KO)

Coca-Cola Company's share price today stands at $62.36, Open. $63.51 ; Previous Close. $63.87 ; High. $64.01 ; Low. $62.34 ; 52 Week High. $73.53 ; 52 Week Low: $57.93

The stock opens at $63.51, after a previous close of $63.87. The stock reached a daily high of $64.01 and a low of $62.34, with a 52-week high of $73.53 and a 52-week low of $57.93.

You can buy Coca-Cola shares starting ₹86.55 or $1 as on January 21, 2025 on the INDmoney app.

Indian investors can buy Coca-Cola shares in fractions or a part of the whole stock value instead of the entire stock. In simple terms, you can even buy 0.1 or any fraction of Coca-Cola stock units. 

Let us understand this better with an example. if you have $10 or ₹865.5 to invest and the cost of Coca-Cola stock is $62.77 or ₹5,432.74, you can still invest your $10 or ₹865.5 and get 10/62.77 that is 0.159 units of Coca-Cola shares in your account.

Another way to understand this is, if 1 Coca-Cola stock costs $62.77 or ₹5,432.74, you can buy Coca-Cola stock worth $250 or ₹21,637.5 which will give you 250/62.77 units which means you will get 3.98 Coca-Cola shares.

An investor investing in US stocks from India not only benefits from stock or capital returns but also gets the benefit of dollar appreciation versus rupees.

If an Indian resident would have invested in Coca Cola from India, 5 years ago then the total returns (including dollar appreciation) from Coca Cola stocks would be 33.52%. The annualised return would be 6%. 

To understand this in simple terms, capital appreciation in the last 5 years from Coca Cola stocks would be 9.80%. 

On top of this, the investors will enjoy the gains from appreciation in dollar value versus rupees which would be 21.61%. The calculation is for the last 5 years.

Hence, investing in US stocks from the US will only give an investor capital gains, but an Indian investor will enjoy additional gains from dollar appreciation.

Coca-Cola stock has given 34% returns in the last 5 years, whereas PepsiCo stock has given 28%. $100 invested in Coca Cola stock 5 years ago would have become $134 and $100 invested in PepsiCo stock would have become $128.

5 years returns of Coca Cola → 34% (Capital Appreciation 9.80% & Dollar Appreciation 21.61%)

5 years returns of PepsiCo→ 28% (Capital Appreciation 4.91% & Dollar Appreciation 21.61%)

$100 invested in Coca Cola stock vs PepsiCo stock 5 years ago:

Coca Cola has paid a total of $8.86 in dividends per share in the last 5 years which translates into ₹709.5. So if you had 10 Coca Cola shares you would have received ₹7,095 in dividends in India from your Coca Cola stocks.

Coca Cola declares dividends every quarter. The latest dividend amount Coca Cola paid each shareholder was $0.485 or ₹41 per share in November 2024. For investors holding shares in fractions the same amount was paid in proportion to the units of shares they hold. For example, if an investor has less than 1 unit ~ 0.5 units, they will still receive $0.2425 or ₹20.50 in dividends.

Coca-Cola is a popular stock amongst top global investors. Warren Buffett, through his company Berkshire Hathaway, holds Coca-Cola shares worth approximately $28.74 billion, owning 400 million shares at an average price of $71.86 per share. Some of its largest shareholders include Vanguard Group Inc ($23.58 billion), and BlackRock Inc ($19.91 billion). Other major stakeholders such as State Street Corp, FMR LLC, Geode Capital Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co, and Morgan Stanley also hold significant stakes worth billions of dollars.