The Coca-Cola Company·Consumer Defensive

Coca-Cola and Walmart are both dividend kings, with 64 and 53 consecutive years of dividend increases, respectively. Coca-Cola has an asset-light business model that lets it operate with industry-leading margins.

About the Industry

Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO | KO Price Prediction) and Philip Morris International (NYSE: PM) both posted Q1 2026 beats within a week of each other.

Dividend-growth blue chips like Coca-Cola double income in nine years despite lower starting yields, while high-yield BDCs and REITs with frozen payouts risk delivering less income over a decade than lower-yield growers.

The six names below sit firmly in the conservative-to-moderate tier. Five are Dividend Kings or Aristocrats.

One boasts global scale and steady profits; the other surges ahead with rapid growth and bold partnerships. Explore how their financials and risks stack up.
The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks, sparkling flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and other beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, caffeine free Diet Coke, Cherry Coke, Fanta Orange, Fanta Zero Orange, Fanta Zero Sugar, Fanta Apple, Sprite, Sprite Zero Sugar, Simply Orange, Simply Apple, Simply Grapefruit, Fresca, Schweppes, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ayataka, BODYARMOR, Ciel, Costa, Dasani, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Gold Peak, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, and Minute Maid Pulpy brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.
Consumer Defensive
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
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1919-09-05
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