The following video is from Thursday's Investor Beat, in which host Chris Hill, and analysts Jason Moser and Isaac Pino dissect the hardest-hitting investing stories of the day.
Shares of SodaStream International rose on media reports that the upstart beverage company was in talks to be acquired by PepsiCo for $2 billion. Pepsi refuted the reports, calling them "completely and utterly untrue." Despite the denial, investors seem to like the idea of a potential deal. In this installment of Investor Beat, Motley Fool analysts Jason Moser and Isaac Pino discuss the competitive landscape in the beverage industry, the likelihood of Coca-Cola or PepsiCo acquiring SodaStream, as well as SodaStream's long-term outlook. Also, our analysts get into four stocks that made big moves on the market today, and pull out two stocks they've picked as the ones they'll be watching very closely in the coming week.