Things Go Better With COKE

The Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated (COKE) is the Barchart Chart of the Day.  The soft drink bottling company has a Trend Spotter buy signal, a Weighted Alpha of 152.90+ and gained 141.13% in the last year.


The Chart of the Day belongs to The Coca-Cola Bottling Company Consolidated (COKE).  I found the soft drink stock by using Barchart to sort the Russell 3000 Index stocks first for the stocks with the highest Weighted Alpha then again for stock with technical buy signals of 80% or better,  Since the Trend Spotter signaled a buy on 9/8 the stock gained 12.13%.

Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated is engaged in the production, marketing and distribution of carbonated and noncarbonated beverages, primarily products of The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia.

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Barchart technical indicators:

• 100% Barchart buy signals
• 152.90+ Weighted Alpha
• Trend Spotter buy signal
• Above its 20, 50 and 100 day moving averages
• 7 new highs and up 19.13% in the last month
• Relative Strength Index 71.78%
• Barchart computes a technical support level at 167.86
• Recently traded at 185.31 with a 50 day moving average of 161.16

Fundamental factors:

• Market Cap $1.72 billion
• P/E 36.15
• Dividend yield .59%
• Analysts haven't release revenue projections
• Earnings are estimated to increase 29.20% this year and an additional 33.90% next year
• The lone analysts issued a hold recommendation on the stock
• The individual investors on Motley Fool voted 600 to 48 for the stock to beat the market

The 20-100 Day MACD Oscillator has been a reliable technical trading strategy for this stock.