PepsiCo Inc (PEP) At $172.95 Offering A Unique Opportunity

PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) currently has a daily average trading volume of 5.39M but it saw 3790923 shares traded in last market. With a market cap of 237.29B USD, the company’s current market price of $172.95 came falling about -0.81 while comparing to the previous closing price of $174.37. In past 52 weeks, the stock remained buoying in the range of price level as high as $183.41 and as low as $158.03. In the recent trading on the day, stock has struck highest price mark of $172.47 while lowest mark touched by it was $173.82.

The company’s shares got several price updates from the analyst firms in past one month and most recent of them is from the TD Cowen which downgraded the stock as “Hold” in its note to investors issued on October 10, 2024, recommending a price target of between $190 and $183 for it. Morgan Stanley downgraded its recommendation for the stock as a “Equal-Weight” from “Overweight” on September 20, 2024 while assigning a price target of $185. DZ Bank also issued its recommendations for the stock as it downgraded the price target for the stock is $183.

Over the week, PEP’s stock price is moving -0.88% down while it is 1.78% when we observe its performance for the past one month. Year-to-date it is 1.83% up and over the past year, the stock is showing an upside performance of 8.04%.

The latest quarterly earnings report issued by the company reported quarterly earnings per share (EPS) of 1.65 beat the consensus estimate of 1.6 for the same. The company is expected to be releasing its next quarterly report on 2025-Feb-07, for which analysts forecasted an EPS of 1.95 while estimate for next year EPS is 8.15. In next quarter, company is expected to be making quarterly sales of $18.53B as analysts are expecting the sales for current fiscal year at $92.23B and seeing the company making $95.34B in sales next year. Moreover, analysts are in estimates of $27.97B for current-quarter revenue.

Currently, PepsiCo Inc’s total number of outstanding shares is 1.37B with 0.15% of that held by the insiders while 77.62% of its common stock has been owned by the institutions. Company’s return on investment (ROI) stands at 16.15% and return on equity (ROE) at 48.91%. It has a price to earnings ratio (P/E ratio) of 25.49 while having a 20.02 of forward P/E ratio. Stock’s beta reads 0.54. Stock has a price to book (P/B) ratio of 12.21 while price to sale or P/S ratio amounts to 2.58. Its return on asset (ROA) is 9.34% on average.