Forensic Analysis · Consumer Staples / Food & Beverage · as of Aug 10, 2026

Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. (COKE)

A forensic read on Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. built from its complete SEC filings — financial-health screens, earnings quality, red flags and a price-aware rating. Reproducible math, not opinion.

A · High-quality compounder

Forensic grade

Safe

Financial health

3.9

Distress distance

Clean

Earnings quality

Forensic signals

21.7

P / E (ttm)

$12.4B

Market cap

0.53%

Dividend yield

4.8%

Revenue growth

This free snapshot doesn't read filing or proxy text, so the auditor-quality and governance checks that can lower a grade were not evaluated (red flags, auditor quality, say on pay, board independence). Those checks only ever lower a grade, so the full analysis can land below the grade above but never above it — treat it as the most favourable reading, not the settled one.

Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. earns an A (High-quality compounder) forensic quality grade, and its balance-sheet distress test reads 3.9, placing it in the Safe zone. 3 forensic signals were flagged in its latest SEC filings, led by shareholder returns.

What the filings flag

435% of FCF

FY2025

Shareholder returns. Returned $2.7B to shareholders (buybacks + dividends) in FY2025 — 435% of free cash flow. More than free cash flow generated — and beyond operating cash too, so the extra is coming from debt or cash reserves, which isn't sustainable indefinitely.

+0.2%/yr

FY2016–FY2019

Share count. Diluted share count changed +1% over the last 3 years to FY2019 (+0.2%/yr). Roughly flat — the count is neither shrinking nor growing meaningfully. Per-share value isn't being meaningfully helped or hurt by the count.

-53%

FY2024→FY2025

Dividend — cut. The payout was CUT ~53% in FY2025 (from FY2024). It still returns some cash, but it is NOT the dependable, rising dividend an unbroken streak implies.

Key fundamentals

Latest Revenue$7.23B

Revenue Growth YoY+4.8%

Revenue CAGR (3yr)+5.2%

Net Margin7.9%

Free Cash Flow$619.6M

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Data from SEC EDGAR public filings · metrics as of Aug 10, 2026. Forensic signals flag probability, not certainty.