Coca-Cola Co (KO): Today's Featured Food & Beverage Winner

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Coca-Cola ( KO) pushed the Food & Beverage industry higher today making it today's featured food & beverage winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 1.5%. By the end of trading, Coca-Cola rose $0.42 (1.1%) to $38.03 on average volume. Throughout the day, 20,136,474 shares of Coca-Cola exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 14,158,000 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $37.92-$38.94 after having opened the day at $38.76 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $37.61. Other companies within the Food & Beverage industry that increased today were: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters ( GMCR), up 26.2%, Truett-Hurst Inc Class A ( THST), up 14.8%, Tofutti Brands ( TOF), up 10.7% and Andersons ( ANDE), up 9.7%.

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The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company primarily offers sparkling beverages and still beverages. Coca-Cola has a market cap of $165.5 billion and is part of the consumer goods sector. Shares are down 9.0% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 10 analysts that rate Coca-Cola a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 4 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Coca-Cola as a buy. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its growth in earnings per share, notable return on equity, good cash flow from operations, expanding profit margins and increase in net income. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

You can view the full Coca-Cola Ratings Report.

On the negative front, American Lorain ( ALN), down 4.0%, Key Technology ( KTEC), down 3.7%, Tianli Agritech ( OINK), down 3.6% and Willamette Valley Vineyards ( WVVI), down 2.6%.

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