Investopedia: Coca-Cola Still Priced For Premium Performance

For a company with the quality and history of Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO), opportunities to buy in cheaply don't come often. Based on solid ongoing performance and global growth potential, this is not one of those rare down periods at Coke. That leaves investors with the unenviable choice of looking for the cheaper stocks of lesser companies, or accepting less than expected return in Coke shares.

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Even with the acquisition of Coca-Cola Enterprises clouding some of the comps, there weren't any major surprises in Coca-Cola's underlying performance. Global revenue rose a little more than 5%, fueled in part by worldwide volume growth of 3%. By the standards of other global food and beverage companies like Nestle (OTCBB:NSRGY) or Kraft (NYSE:KFT), that's pretty respectable growth and Coke did see double-digit volume growth in China.

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