Understanding PEP – Key Facts You Must Know

By Ken Smith • Monday, November 20 15:13 • Permanent Link

Join us for a quick overview of PepsiCo, a Beverages company whose shares moved -0.1% today. Here are some facts about the stock that should help you see the bigger picture:

PepsiCo has moved -9.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 16.0%
PEP has an average analyst rating of buy and is -11.92% away from its mean target price of $189.08 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $6.0
PepsiCo has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 27.8 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $8.15 and its forward P/E ratio is 20.4
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 12.18 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
PepsiCo is part of the Consumer Staples sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.36 and an average P/B of 4.29
PEP has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 14.9% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $6.29 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
PepsiCo, Inc. manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells various beverages and convenient foods worldwide. The company operates through seven segments: Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; PepsiCo Beverages North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and China Region. It provides dips, cheese-flavored snacks, and spreads, as well as corn, potato, and tortilla chips; cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods; ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices; dairy products; and sparkling water makers and related products. The company offers its products primarily under the Lay's, Doritos, Cheetos, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, Aquafina, Emperador, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade Zero, Propel, Marias Gamesa, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, Tostitos, 7UP, Diet 7UP, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi Black, San Carlos, Toddy, Walkers, Chipsy, Kurkure, Sasko, Spekko, White Star, Smith's, Sting, SodaStream, Lubimy Sad, Pepsi, and other brands. It serves wholesale and other distributors, foodservice customers, grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, discount/dollar stores, mass merchandisers, membership stores, hard discounters, e-commerce retailers and authorized independent bottlers, and others through a network of direct-store-delivery, customer warehouse, and distributor networks, as well as directly to consumers through e-commerce platforms and retailers. The company was founded in 1898 and is based in Purchase, New York.

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