PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) shares, rose in value on Wednesday, March 26, with the stock price up by 2.13% to the previous day’s close as strong demand from buyers drove the stock to $148.64.
Actively observing the price movement in the last trading, the stock closed the session at $145.54, falling within a range of $145.75 and $149.33. The value of beta (5-year monthly) was 0.53 whereas the PE ratio was 21.39 over 12-month period. Referring to stock’s 52-week performance, its high was $183.41, and the low was $141.51. On the whole, PEP has fluctuated by -4.97% over the past month.
With the market capitalization of PepsiCo Inc currently standing at about $203.86 billion, investors are eagerly awaiting this quarter’s results, scheduled for on 2025-Feb-03. The company’s Forward Dividend Ratio is 5.42, with its dividend yield at 3.65%.
Projections by analysts suggest varying estimates for the company’s quarterly revenue. Analysts have estimated the company’s revenue for the quarter at 91.99B, with a low estimate of 17.52B and a high estimate of 18.01B. Wall Street analysts also predicted that the company’s y-o-y revenues would reach 17.81B.
Technical indicators serve as essential tools for traders, offering insights into market sentiment and potential price movements. We see that PEP’s technical picture suggests that short-term indicators denote the stock is a 50% Sell on average. However, medium-term indicators have put the stock in the category of 100% Sell while long-term indicators on average have been pointing out that it is a 100% Sell.
The stock’s technical analysis shows that the PEG ratio is about 4.51, with the price of PEP currently trading nearly -1.37% and -0.33% away from the simple moving averages for 20 and 50 days respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently indicates a reading of 48.28, while the 7-day volatility ratio is showing 1.56% which for the 30-day chart, stands at 2.11%. Furthermore, PepsiCo Inc (PEP)’s beta value is 0.52, and its average true range (ATR) is 3.13.
A comparison of PepsiCo Inc (PEP) with its peers suggests the former has fared considerably weaker in the market. PEP showed an intraday change of 2.13% in last session, and over the past year, it shrunk by -13.59%%.
Data on historical trading for PepsiCo Inc (NASDAQ:PEP) indicates that the trading volumes over the past 10 days have averaged 6.55 and over the past 3 months, they’ve averaged 7.08 million. According to company’s latest data on outstanding shares, there are 1.37 billion shares outstanding.
Nearly 0.35% of PepsiCo Inc’s shares belong to company insiders and institutional investors own 76.08% of the company’s shares. The data on short interest also indicates that stock shorts accounted for 19.04 million shares as on 2025-03-14, resulting in a short ratio of 2.42. According to the data, the short interest in PepsiCo Inc (PEP) stood at 139.00 of shares outstanding as of 2025-03-14; the number of short shares registered in 2025-02-14 reached 18.04 million. The stock has fallen by -2.25% since the beginning of the year, thereby showing the potential of a further growth. This could raise investors’ confidence to be optimistic about the PEP stock heading into the next quarter.
