PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) has a beta value of 0.45 and has seen 1.97 million shares traded in the recent trading session. The company, currently valued at $183.93B, closed the recent trade at $134.15 per share which meant it gained $0.34 on the day or 0.25% during that session. The PEP stock price is -34.86% off its 52-week high price of $180.91 and 4.88% above the 52-week low of $127.60. If we look at the company’s 10-day average daily trading volume, we find that it stood at 8.71 million shares traded. The 3-month trading volume is 9.39 million shares.
The consensus among analysts is that PepsiCo Inc (PEP) is Buy stock at the moment, with a recommendation rating of 2.58. 0 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, while 1 rate it as Overweight. 5 out of 17 have rated it as a Hold, with 11 advising it as a Buy. 0 have rated the stock as Underweight.
PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) trade information
Sporting 0.25% in the green today, the stock has traded in the red over the last five days, with the highest price hit on recent trading when the PEP stock price touched $134.15 or saw a rise of 1.85%. Year-to-date, PepsiCo Inc shares have moved -19.37%, while the 5-day performance has seen it change -0.25%. Over the past 30 days, the shares of PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) have changed 2.52%. Short interest in the company has seen 16.4 million shares shorted with days to cover at 1.8.
Wall Street analysts have a consensus price target for the stock at $153, which means that the shares’ value could jump 12.32% from the levels at last check today.. The projected low price target is $140.0 while the price target rests at a high of $168.0. In that case, then, we find that the latest price level in today’s session is -25.23% off the targeted high while a plunge would see the stock gain -4.36% from the levels at last check today..
PepsiCo Inc (PEP) estimates and forecasts
The company’s shares have lost -7.17% over the past 6 months.
If we evaluate the company’s growth over the last 5-year and for the next 5-year period, we find that annual earnings growth was 5.98% over the past 5 years. Earnings growth for 2025 is a modest -3.45% while over the next 5 years, the company’s earnings are expected to increase by 2.58%.
PEP Dividends
PepsiCo Inc is expected to release its next earnings report on 2025-Apr-24 this year, and investors are excited at the prospect of better dividends despite the company’s debt issue. The forward dividend is 5.49 at a share yield of 4.09%. The company’s dividend yield has gone up over the past 12 months, with a 5 Year Average Dividend Yield of 2.87%.
PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP)’s Major holders
Insiders own 0.17% of the company shares, while shares held by institutions stand at 79.05% with a share float percentage of 79.19%. Investors are also buoyed by the number of investors in a company, with PepsiCo Inc having a total of 4234.0 institutions that hold shares in the company. The top two institutional holders are VANGUARD GROUP INC with over 131.44 million shares worth more than $21.68 billion. As of 2024-06-30, VANGUARD GROUP INC held 9.5591% of shares outstanding.
The other major institutional holder is BLACKROCK INC., with the holding of over 109.22 million shares as of 2024-06-30. The firm’s total holdings are worth over $18.01 billion and represent 7.9435% of shares outstanding.
Also the top two Mutual Funds that are holding company’s shares are VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . As of Mar 31, 2025 , the former fund manager holds about 3.09% shares in the company for having 43.34 shares of worth $5.81 billion while later fund manager owns 38.11 shares of worth $5.11 billion as of Mar 31, 2025 , which makes it owner of about 2.71% of company’s outstanding stock.
