Coke Has Positive Earnings, and a Smile (KO)

Companies and Brands

Published: February 7, 2012 7:44 am

Last Updated: April 27, 2020 7:17 pm

The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) has managed to beat earnings and shares are trading higher in the pre-market after the report. On an operational and normalized basis, Coca-Cola’s earnings hit $0.79 EPS and that was above the Thomson Reuters consensus of $0.78 EPS expected.

For all of 2011 there was a 5% total case volume growth for the beverage giant, with Europe up 1% and China up 10%. North America’s organic case volume was up only 1% in the period. For the Year… Full-year EPS of $3.69 and $3.84 EPS on an adjusted basis. The 10% growth is said to be “both ahead of our long-term growth target.”

Coke is also launching a new Productivity and Reinvestment program that aims for annualized savings of $550 to $650 million by the end of 2015 as part of its 2020 Vision.

Shares closed at $68.03 on Monday and the 52-week range is $61.29 to $71.77; shares are up 1.3% at $68.90 so far in the pre-market with almost two hours until the market opens for trading.

JON C. OGG

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