Background Coca-Cola Coca-Cola was founded in 1886 by John Pemberton who was a civil war veteran and Atlanta pharmacist. Today, Coca-Cola company is the world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, over 10 billion gallons, used to produce nearly 400 beverage brands. Also, Coca-Cola has been ranked the best value of brand name on the world for more than 10 years. Pepsi Pepsi-Cola was created in the late 1890s by Caleb Bradham, a New …showed first 75 words of 6555 total…

…showed last 75 words of 6555 total…In the past five years, Pepsi paid $0.535, $0.555, $0.575, $0.595, and $0.630 from 1999 to 2003. Conclusion Through analyzing two firms, it is difficult to say which one is worth to invest than another. These two companies perform almost same in the past years. Each one has special advantage to encourage us to put our money into them. Our group recommends that we should divide our money into 2 parts that buy both stocks. This action can protect us to loss money.