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Coca-Cola profit rises


    CHICAGO (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co reported a quarterly profit in line with analysts estimates as strong volume in Latin America and other parts of the world offset a decline in North America.

    The world's largest soft drink maker said net income attributable to shareholders rose to $1.54 billion, or 66 cents per share, from $995 million, or 43 cents per share, a year earlier.

    Analysts on average were expecting 66 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

    Net operating revenue rose 5 percent to $7.51 billion.

    Overall sales by volume rose 5 percent, after rising 2 percent in the third quarter, 4 percent in the second quarter and 2 percent in the first.

    Coca-cola shares rose less than 1 percent in premarket trading.

    (Reporting by Brad Dorfman. Additional reporting by Martinne Geller; Editing by Derek Caney)