The $43B Big Pharma Story is Starting Over-With a New Player
Big Pharma once paid $43B for a small biotech with a similar platform. Now, a new company is following that same playbook, leveraging its patented delivery technology to attract partnerships and near-term revenue potential.
Shares Stats
| Shares Outstanding | 1,369,000,000 |
| Shares Float | 1,362,680,000 |
| Shares Short | 16,770,000 |
| Insider Holdings | 19% |
| Institution Holdings | 78.94% |
About PepsiCo Inc
PepsiCo, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of 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, 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, as well as distributes alcoholic beverages under Hard MTN Dew brand. The company offers its products primarily under the Lay's, Doritos, Fritos, Tostitos, BaiCaoWei, Cheetos, Cap'n Crunch, Life, Pearl Milling Company, Gatorade, Pepsi-Cola, Mountain Dew, Quaker, Rice-A-Roni, Aquafina, Bubly, Emperador, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade Zero, Crush, Propel, Dr Pepper, Schweppes, Marias Gamesa, Ruffles, Sabritas, Saladitas, Tostitos, 7UP, Diet 7UP, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi Black, Pepsi Max, San Carlos, Toddy, Walkers, Chipsy, Kurkure, Sasko, Spekko, White Star, Smith's, Sting, SodaStream, Lubimyj Sad, Agusha, Chudo, Domik v Derevne, Lipton, 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.
General
| Name | PepsiCo Inc |
| Ticker | PEP |
| Exchange | NASDAQ |
| Sector | Consumer Defensive |
| Industry | Beverages - Non-Alcoholic |
| Currency | USD |
| Country | USA |
| Fiscal Year End | December |
| Full Time Employees | 319,000 |
Highlights
| Analyst Target | 155.37 |
| Market Cap | 194,968,900,000 |
| PE Ratio | 27.13 |
| PEG Ratio | 2.95 |
| EBITDA | 17,016,000,512 |
Financials
| Curr Year EPS Estimate | 8.11 |
| Next Quarter EPS Estimate | 2.18 |
| Profit Margin | 7.82% |
| Operating Margin | 14.65 |
| Return on Assets | 0.08 |
| Return on Equity | 0.37 |
| Revenue | 92.4B |
| Earnings Per Share | 5.26 |
| Revenue Per Share | 67.42 |
| Gross Profit | 50,126,000,128 |
| Quarterly Revenue Growth | 0.03 |
Valuation
| Trailing PE | 27.17 |
| Forward PE | 16.81 |
| Price/Sales (Trailing 12 Mt.) | 2.12 |
| Price/Book (Most Recent Quarter) | 10.58 |
Dividend
PepsiCo Inc pays out a dividend of $5.62 per share, with a dividend yield of 3.94%.
PEP's last dividend payment was made to shareholders on September 30, 2025.
They pay out 76.68% of their earnings out as a dividend.
Recent Dividends
| Sep 30, 2025 | $1.42 |
| Jun 30, 2025 | $1.42 |
| Mar 31, 2025 | $1.36 |
| Jan 6, 2025 | $1.36 |
| Sep 30, 2024 | $1.36 |
| Jun 28, 2024 | $1.36 |
| Apr 1, 2024 | $1.27 |
| Jan 5, 2024 | $1.27 |
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