The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures and sells various nonalcoholic beverages in the United States and internationally. The company provides Trademark Coca-Cola, sparkling soft drinks and flavors; water, sports, coffee, and tea; juice, value-added dairy, and plant-based beverages; and emerging beverages. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers comprising restaurants and …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 73.3th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 61.6% (top 0%) and operating margin at 28.7% (top 7%) indicate strong pricing power.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Coca-Cola Company (The) ranks #3 of 18
scored companies in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic by moat score — the top 17%.
The widest moat in the group is National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ)
at 76/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near KO in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 72
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 71
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 88
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 70
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 57
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Coca-Cola Company (The) (KO) scores 71 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #3 of 18 scored companies in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic, the top 17%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 17 companies in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic. Its strongest defense is Capital Efficiency (88/100) and its weakest is Scale & Market Position (57/100).
How does Coca-Cola Company (The) compare with other Beverages - Non-Alcoholic companies?
Coca-Cola Company (The) ranks #3 of 18 scored companies in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic by moat score. The widest moat in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic is National Beverage Corp. (FIZZ) at 76/100. The companies ranked closest are Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) at 72 just above it and Embotelladora Andina S.A. (AKO-A) at 60 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 17 companies in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Coca-Cola Company (The) scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Coca-Cola Company (The)?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and KO scores: Pricing Power (68), Cost Advantage (72), Customer Stickiness (71), Capital Efficiency (88), Resilience (70), Scale & Market Position (57). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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