Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, soft-drink and snack giant PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP ) has earned a coveted five-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at PepsiCo's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
PepsiCo facts
| Headquarters (Founded) |
Purchase, N.Y. (1898) |
| Market Cap |
$101.5 billion |
| Industry |
Soft drinks |
| Trailing-12-Month Revenue |
$64.5 billion |
| Management |
Chairman/CEO Indra Nooyi
CFO Hugh Johnston |
| Return on Equity (Average, Past 3 Years) |
32.5% |
| Cash/Debt |
$3.54 billion / $26.9 billion |
| Dividend Yield |
3.2% |
| Competitors |
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO )
General Mills (NYSE: GIS )
Kraft (NYSE: KFT ) |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 97% of the 4,422 members who have rated PepsiCo believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bulls include All-Stars TMFDeej and TheMiracleDJR, both of whom are ranked in the top 5% of our community.
Just last month, TMFDeej tapped the stock as a tasty bargain opportunity: "Pepsi is cheap on a sum-of-the-parts basis. This value may be unlocked by a split of the drinks and snacks divisions, potentially forced by activist investors and the company's Board of Directors."
In fact, PepsiCo sports a cheapish price-to-cash flow of 12.3. That represents a discount to competitors like Coca-Cola (17.1), General Mills (15.0), and Kraft (15.3).
CAPS All-Star TheMiracleDJR expands on the outperform argument:
As a marketing man, all I can say is The Pepsi Generation -- as stupid, annoying and idiotic as it is -- is the purest genius. A moat pretty much as big as Coke's. No chance any beverage/snack food company can get in front of them. They're profits are as close to guaranteed as profits can be.
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