I believe he could have just as easily said Kraft (KFT).
It turns out that Kraft has approximately minus $ 18B of TCE while Coca-Cola has plus $ 8 billion. In both cases, the accounting captures only a portion of economic Goodwill and that makes TCE or even (Common Equity) poor measures of the economic value. The fact that economic Goodwill matters more than accounting Goodwill is something Buffett wrote about at the end of the 1983 Letter to Shareholders.
The durable earning power of the franchise over time tells you more about a company's strength than TCE or any other simple snapshot measurement.
I've said before that this is more about the inherent limitations of accounting.
Adam
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