In today’s recent session, 1.81 million shares of the PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) have been traded, and its beta is 0.45. Most recently the company’s share price was $135.29, and it changed around $0.84 or 0.62% from the last close, which brings the market valuation of the company to $185.49B. PEP at last check was trading at a discount to its 52-week high of $180.91, offering almost -33.72% off that amount. The share price’s 52-week low was $127.60, which indicates that the recent value has risen by an impressive 5.68% since then. We note from PepsiCo Inc’s average daily trading volume that its 10-day average is 11.74 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 9.46 million.
PepsiCo Inc stock received a consensus recommendation rating of Hold, based on a mean score of 2.58. If we narrow it down even further, the data shows that 1 out of 24 analysts rate the stock as a Sell; another 3 rate it as Overweight. Among the rest, 16 recommended PEP as a Hold, whereas 4 deemed it a Buy, and 0 rated it as Underweight.
PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) trade information
Instantly PEP has been showing a green trend so far today with a performance of 0.62% on intraday trading today. The performance over the last five days has remained in the green territory. The rise to weekly highs of 137.00 on recent trading dayincreased the stock’s daily price by 1.25%. The company’s shares are currently down -16.80% year-to-date, but still up 2.46% over the last five days. On the other hand, PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) is 3.18% up in the 30-day period. We can see from the shorts that 16.4 million shares have been sold at a short interest cover period of 1.8 day(s).
The consensus price target as assigned by Wall Street analysts is $153, which translates to bulls needing to increase their stock price by 11.58% from its current value. Analyst projections state that PEP is forecast to be at a low of $140 and a high of $168.
Looking at the company’s year-over-year earnings, the past five years showed a positive earnings growth rate of 5.98%. PepsiCo Inc earnings are expected to increase by -3.38% in 2025, but the outlook is positive 2.78% per year for the next five years.
PEP Dividends
PepsiCo Inc’s next quarterly earnings report is expected to be released on 2025-Apr-24. The annual dividend yield of the stock is 4.06 percent and its annual dividend per share was 5.49. It is important to note, however, that the 4.06% dividend yield ratio should be regarded as a guide only, as many other factors should be taken into consideration before making any investment decision. The average dividend yield for the past five years averaged 2.87 per year.
PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP)’s Major holders
Upon looking at major shareholders, it appears that insiders hold 0.17% of PepsiCo Inc shares, and 79.05% of them are in the hands of institutional investors. The stock currently has a share float of 79.19%. PepsiCo Inc stock is held by 4234.0 institutions, with VANGUARD GROUP INC being the largest institutional investor. By 2024-06-30, it held 9.5591% of the shares, which is about 131.44 million shares worth $21.68 billion.
BLACKROCK INC., with 7.9435% or 109.22 million shares worth $18.01 billion as of 2024-06-30, holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares.
VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund were the top two Mutual Funds as of Mar 31, 2025 . The former held 43.34 shares worth $5.85 billion, making up 3.09% of all outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held roughly 38.11 shares worth around $5.15 billion, which represents about 2.71% of the total shares outstanding.
