A 12-pack of Coca-Cola is displayed on a counter in a 7-Eleven handy retailer in Austin, Texas, on July 17, 2025.
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Coca-Cola on Tuesday reported quarterly earnings and income that topped analysts’ expectations as robust demand in Europe offset weaker quantity in different markets.
Shares of the corporate fell lower than 1% in premarket buying and selling.
Here is what the corporate reported in contrast with what Wall Road was anticipating, primarily based on a survey of analysts by LSEG:
- Earnings per share: 87 cents adjusted vs. 83 cents anticipated
- Income: $12.62 billion adjusted vs. $12.54 billion anticipated
Coke reported second-quarter internet earnings attributable to shareholders of $3.81 billion, or 88 cents per share, up from $2.41 billion, or 56 cents per share, a 12 months earlier.
Excluding asset impairments, restructuring expenses and different objects, the beverage large earned 87 cents per share.
Web gross sales rose 1% to $12.54 billion. Excluding objects, the corporate’s income reached $12.62 billion.
The corporate’s natural income, which strips out acquisitions, divestitures and international foreign money, elevated 5%.
However Coke’s world unit case quantity fell 1% within the quarter. Each division however Coke’s Europe, Center East and Africa enterprise reported shrinking quantity. The metric strips out the impression of pricing and international foreign money to mirror demand.
Coke executives have beforehand mentioned that financial uncertainty and geopolitical tensions have weighed on client confidence, hurting its gross sales in some markets.
In North America, quantity fell 1% as demand for the corporate’s namesake soda declined. Latin American unit case quantity decreased 2%, whereas Coke’s Asia-Pacific market noticed the metric drop 3% within the quarter. The corporate’s EMEA phase noticed quantity progress of three%.
Globally, Coke’s glowing softs drink phase, which incorporates its namesake soda, reported that quantity shrank 1%. The corporate’s juice, value-added dairy and plant-based beverage division noticed quantity fall 4%. And its water, sports activities, espresso and tea phase reported flat quantity for the quarter, as progress in espresso offset declines in sports activities drinks.
For the total 12 months, Coke narrowed its outlook for comparable earnings per share progress to three%, the highest finish of the vary it had beforehand supplied. The corporate reiterated its forecast that natural income will improve 5% to six% in 2025.