Usually in these “Better Buy” articles, we pit against each other companies that operate in the same industry. But every now and again, we get odd pairings. This is one of them: a vendor of sugary water in Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) versus a computing purveyor in IBM (NYSE: IBM).
I personally love these disparate duos; in the real world, these are the types of decisions that individual investors — particularly dividend investors — have to make every day.