What if you invested in Coca-Cola in 2000?
KO · Consumer · Data through 2026-06-01
If you invested $1,000 in Coca-Cola in 2000
The same $1,000 in the S&P 500 would be worth $8,631(+763.1%)
The S&P 500 returned $8,631 on the same $1,000. S&P 500 outperformed by $2,913.
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Growth of $1,000
Coca-Cola vs. S&P 500 vs. US Dollar, 2000 to present
Year-by-Year Returns
$1,000 invested in Coca-Cola starting January 2000
| Year | Price | Value | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | $13.78 | $1,000 | - |
| 2001 | $14.09 | $1,023 | +2.3% |
| 2002 | $10.87 | $789 | -22.9% |
| 2003 | $10.22 | $742 | -6% |
| 2004 | $12.69 | $921 | +24.2% |
| 2005 | $10.93 | $793 | -13.9% |
| 2006 | $11.18 | $812 | +2.3% |
| 2007 | $13.31 | $966 | +19% |
| 2008 | $16.82 | $1,221 | +26.4% |
| 2009 | $12.53 | $910 | -25.5% |
| 2010 | $16.47 | $1,195 | +31.4% |
| 2011 | $19.68 | $1,429 | +19.5% |
| 2012 | $21.76 | $1,579 | +10.5% |
| 2013 | $24.67 | $1,791 | +13.4% |
| 2014 | $25.78 | $1,871 | +4.5% |
| 2015 | $28.90 | $2,098 | +12.1% |
| 2016 | $31.13 | $2,260 | +7.7% |
| 2017 | $31.13 | $2,260 | +0% |
| 2018 | $36.84 | $2,674 | +18.3% |
| 2019 | $38.54 | $2,798 | +4.6% |
| 2020 | $48.25 | $3,502 | +25.2% |
| 2021 | $41.14 | $2,986 | -14.7% |
| 2022 | $53.77 | $3,903 | +30.7% |
| 2023 | $55.65 | $4,039 | +3.5% |
| 2024 | $55.69 | $4,042 | +0.1% |
| 2025 | $61.24 | $4,445 | +10% |
| 2026 | $74.30 | $5,393 | +21.3% |
What this return means
$1,000 invested in Coca-Cola (KO) in 2000 is worth $5,718 today. That is a +471.8% gain, a little over 5.7x your money, measured to 2026-06-01.
That is only about 6.8% a year once you compound it across 26.5 years. By comparison the S&P 500 returned about $8,631 on the same stake, edging out Coca-Cola by close to $2,913. The index compounded at about 8.5% a year, a reminder that a single stock can lag a basket of them.
Getting here meant sitting through real volatility. The best single year was 2010 at +31.4%, and the worst was 2009 at -25.5%. At its lowest point the position was down about 28% from an earlier high. These figures use split-adjusted closing prices and exclude dividends, taxes, trading fees, and inflation, so a real after-tax result would differ.
None of this is a recommendation. It is a record of what already happened, and past performance does not guarantee future results.
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