Monday 20 July 2015

Bidness ETC - Coca Coca Receives 'Buy' Ratings From Analysts



The beverage making company has shown some evident struggles on the stock index lately while the analysts remain bullish over the firm's stock.

Coca-Cola Company has recently been covered by a number of equity analysts. Despite the fact that the beverage firm has been experiencing some difficulties in the industry keeping in mind the changes in the demand of the users, the management of the fizzy drink making firm has now handling the company’s problems in a commendable manner which has helped it to step back on the short comings that took their toll before. There are around twenty five equity firm analysts who are of the opinion that the coke makers should be granted a ‘buy’ rating for the shares, whereas eleven analysts firms are those who have given a ‘hold’ to the shares of the company.

On the other hand, Coca-Cola has been undergoing many new plans lately which have made the investors know one thing for sure and that is that the firm has no plans of backing down to the increasing competition in the market. If seen on a consensus level, the healthy milk drink producing firm has also managed to secure an ‘overweight’ rating along with a price target of $44.74 per shares.

As per the recent news, it will also be seen that Coca-Cola has decided to make a huge investment of around $500 million in a communication business that will further be providing high technology communication services to those parts of the world which are less developed. This project is being initiated mainly for rural areas where the communication service is seen to be in an unsatisfying state. The services that will be provided through the networking system will mostly include broadband systems for those areas in the developing and under developed countries where the internet services, as well as basic services to communicate, are not present.

Furthermore, it will be seen that the energy drink makers have been witnessing an unexpected decline in the share price falling by a massive 12.44 percent from the 52 week high price of the shares that has been recorded on the stock index. The sports drinks makers have also reported price to earnings ratio of around 24.78. As for the market cap value of the non-alcoholic drinks making company, the value has been recorded at around $171.73 billion.

Moreover, the short interest shares of Coca-Cola have totaled to come around at $33.76 million which has also shown a tendency of going towards the upward direction. This upheaval has been reported to have taken place by around 16 percent as compared to the previous month that the firm went through.

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