What if you invested in Coca-Cola in 2020?
KO · Consumer · Data through 2026-06-01
If you invested $1,000 in Coca-Cola in 2020
The same $1,000 in the S&P 500 would be worth $2,574(+157.4%)
The S&P 500 returned $2,574 on the same $1,000. S&P 500 outperformed by $941.
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Coca-Cola vs. S&P 500 vs. US Dollar, 2020 to present
Year-by-Year Returns
$1,000 invested in Coca-Cola starting January 2020
| Year | Price | Value | Annual |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | $48.25 | $1,000 | - |
| 2021 | $41.14 | $853 | -14.7% |
| 2022 | $53.77 | $1,115 | +30.7% |
| 2023 | $55.65 | $1,153 | +3.5% |
| 2024 | $55.69 | $1,154 | +0.1% |
| 2025 | $61.24 | $1,269 | +10% |
| 2026 | $74.30 | $1,540 | +21.3% |
What this return means
Coca-Cola (KO) turned $1,000 into $1,633 since 2020. The total return is +63.3% over 6.5 years, as of 2026-06-01.
That is only about 7.8% a year once you compound it across 6.5 years. A plain S&P 500 fund would have grown that $1,000 to about $2,574 instead, beating Coca-Cola by around $941. The index compounded at about 15.7% 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 2022 at +30.7%, and the worst was 2021 at -14.7%. These figures use split-adjusted closing prices and exclude dividends, taxes, trading fees, and inflation, so a real after-tax result would differ.
Treat this as history rather than advice. Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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