beverage industry

Strong Q3 Performance Beats Estimates Coca-Cola’s (NYSE: KO) Q3 2025 report blew past Wall Street’s forecasts. The beverage giant logged $12.5 billion in revenue, up 5% from last year (organic sales +6%) stocktitan.net. This exceeded the ~$12.39 billion consensus reuters.com. Volume was flat to slightly positive (+1%), but robust price/mix (+6%) drove growth. As a result, EPS of $0.86 surged 30% year-over-year stocktitan.net, topping the $0.78 street estimate reuters.com by 4 cents. Even excluding special items, Coke’s adjusted EPS of $0.82 comfortably beat forecasts. Notably, operating profit jumped 59% (29% currency-neutral) with an operating margin of 32.0% (vs 21.2% a year ago)