The Week Ahead: Coca-Cola, Uber, and Walt Disney to Report Earnings

Cisco Systems CSCO will start the next week of earnings with a report expected on Tuesday, followed by Coca-Cola KO and Uber Technologies UBER on Wednesday. On Thursday, we are looking out for PepsiCo PEP and Walt Disney DIS.

Despite a significant revenue drop, Coca-Cola's margins were resilient. We expect the soft-drink company to bounce back as vaccination efforts and innovation start rolling. As for Pepsi, the company posted impressive 2020 organic growth despite the tumultuous year thanks to its snack portfolio and pre-eminent North America exposure.

With the sale of its autonomous vehicle technology business, ATG, to Aurora, we see Uber benefiting from this for two reasons. First, it will eliminate the drag of ATG from the necessary high investments in research and development. Second, this partnership will make it possible for Uber to use Aurora's future self-driving cars on its platform.

Disney has started a global battle with Netflix NFLX. So far, Disney+ has 86.8 million subscribers and the entertainment giant plans to triple the number of subscribers over the next four fiscal years. Disney is also launching a general entertainment content offering under the Star brand, which will be placed on Disney+ with a Star banner in Europe, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Singapore.