date:Feb 09, 2014
tors can now focus on the wide selection in the beverage group, ranging from prominent blue chips such as Anheuser-Busch Inbev and Coca-Cola to promising small caps like High Performance Beverage.
As a result, there are stocks for income, growth, and value investors.
For income investors, there is Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, and Dr. Pepper Snapple. The average dividend yield for a member of the SP's 500 Index is around 2 percent. For Coca-Cola, it is 2.95 percent. Pepsico has a 2.86 percent dividend.