Chris
Engineer & Entrepreneur, Equity/Crypto Swing Trader, Macro & Trade Setups
PepsiCo is an easy buy for a long-term dividend portfolio because its diversified brands can adapt to shifting health trends. Gatorade, soda, snacks and energy drinks are categories people will never stop consuming, and the recent Poppi purchase shows that adaptability, making PepsiCo preferable even to McDonald's. @TheRonnieVShow notes the stock sits on a 17-year trendline that has held since 2009. x.com x.comÂ
Director Robert Pohlad's $23.7 million open-market share purchase bolsters PepsiCo's risk/reward case. Buying this very solid company near its 200-month moving average looks like a solid setup. x.comÂ
PepsiCo is extreme value because its falling share price has lifted the dividend yield to 4.6% at just 15 times this year's earnings. Its dividend has risen for more than five decades. x.comÂ
PepsiCo's forecast for another year of just 3% growth leaves it nowhere close to cheap. It trades at 16 times 2027 earnings. x.comÂ
Insider buying points to opportunity in PepsiCo shares despite the market's pessimism. Former PepsiAmericas CEO Robert Pohlad spent $23.7 million on the stock during its deepest drawdown since the 2008 financial crisis. x.comÂ
PepsiCo offers a share-price recovery bet as international growth continues and North American demand has room to improve. It owns Pepsi, Lay's, Doritos and Gatorade; Q2 revenue rose 6.4% to $24.2 billion, international beverages organic revenue grew 9%, and management still expects 5-7% core EPS growth in 2026. The recovery still has to happen, as North American beverage volume fell 4% last quarter. x.comÂ
PepsiCo is under pressure because consumers can no longer really afford a can of soda, as the company cut its profit outlook citing a slower North American recovery. The stock is approaching its monthly 200-period moving average, a secular bear-market line that breaks only during economic depressions. If it breaks, $75 is the next level. x.comÂ
Qualcomm, Johnson & Johnson, Wendy's, IBM, Coca-Cola, PepsiCo and Caterpillar are steady dividend payers that pay investors to wait, in keeping with Warren Buffett's rule never to lose money. Johnson & Johnson, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo have raised their dividends for decades. Qualcomm licenses wireless patents nearly every phone maker pays for, IBM leads in quantum computing research, and Caterpillar is a growing supplier of power generation for data centers. x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com x.com … Show more
Celsius looks attractive at about 18x forward earnings after Alani and Rockstar drove revenue higher while its shares fell; continued international growth and wider distribution through Pepsi are key to the upside case. x.comÂ
PepsiCo looks unattractive because, since Covid, supermarket sections where shoppers used to load up on its products have looked empty. The bearish view dates back to 2021. x.comÂ
PepsiCo's valuation discount to Coca-Cola doesn't make sense: it trades at 17.75x earnings versus Coca-Cola's 26.70x, whatever one thinks of their sodas. x.comÂ
