Why Coca-Cola Stock Popped 12% Higher Last Month

Shares of Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) rose 12.1% in February 2025, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. The soft drink giant published a tasty fourth-quarter earnings report on Feb. 11, followed by a crowd-pleasing dividend increase on the 20th. The earnings event provided most of the fuel for last month's price gains. Investors would have been more surprised if Coke didn't boost its quarterly payouts for the first time in forever.Q4 sales rose 6.4% year over year to $11.5 billion. Your average analyst would have settled for $10.7 billion.Coca-Cola also reports a unique metric called organic revenues. This figure is not related to the purchase of health-focused beverages by consumers but to core business sales, backing out the effects of currency exchange fluctuations, acquisitions, and divestitures. Currency trends and higher ingredient costs constituted modest headwinds in Q4. On the other hand, a large-scale refranchising of bottling operations gave Coca-Cola a revenue boost. Without these puts and takes, organic sales rose 14% year over year.Continue readingWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei MotleyFool