Hot Beverage Stocks To Invest In Right Now

Hot Beverage Stocks To Invest In Right Now: Pepsico Inc.(PEP)

PepsiCo, Inc. engages in the manufacture, marketing, and sale of foods, snacks, and carbonated and non-carbonated beverages worldwide. The company operates in four divisions: PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF); PepsiCo Americas Beverages (PAB); PepsiCo Europe; and PepsiCo Asia, Middle East, and Africa (AMEA). The PAF division offers Lay?s and Ruffles potato chips, Doritos and Tostitos tortilla chips and dips, Cheetos cheese flavored snacks, Fritos corn chips, Quaker Chewy granola bars, and SunChips multigrain snacks in North America; Quaker oatmeal, Aunt Jemima mixes and syrups, Cap?n Crunch cereal, Quaker grits, and Life cereal, as well as Rice-A-Roni, Pasta Roni, and Near East side dishes in North America; and various snack foods under Doritos, Marias Gamesa, Cheetos, Ruffles, Emperador, Saladitas, Sabritas, and Lay?s brands in Latin America. The PAB division provides carbonated soft drinks, beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Gatorade, 7UP, Tropicana Pure Premium, Electropura, Sierra Mist, Epura, and Mirinda brands; ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and water products through joint ventures with Unilever and Starbucks; and sells concentrate to authorized bottlers, and branded finished goods directly to independent distributors and retailers. This division also manufactures third-party brands, such as Dr Pepper, Crush, Rock Star, and Muscle Milk. The PepsiCo Europe division offers Frito Lay Snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices, and Quaker foods in Europe. The AMEA division provides snack food under the Lay?s, Kurkure, Chipsy, Doritos, Smith?s, Cheetos, Red Rock Deli, and Ruffles brands; Quaker-brand cereals and snacks; and beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods under the Pepsi, Mirinda, 7UP, and Mountain Dew brands. PepsiCo, Inc. was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

Advisors' Opinion:

• [By Alex Dumortier, CFA]

  SodaStream: Not just empty calories
  This morning, PepsiCo (NYSE: PEP  ) categorically denied that it is in talks to buy Israeli SodaStream International (NASDAQ: SODA  ) , but shares of the Israeli company, which sells home soda makers, still managed to add nearly 3%. The stock was up nearly 10% intraday on a curiously detailed report in an Israeli financial newspaper, the Calcalist, according to which, PepsiCo had made a $2 billion offer for the company through Goldman Sachs, and might be willing to pay up to $95 per share.

• [By Monica Gerson]

  Wall Street expects Pepsico (NYSE: PEP) to report its Q3 earnings at $1.17 per share on revenue of $16.96 billion. Pepsico shares fell 0.19% to $80.45 in after-hours trading.

• [By Stock Gamer]

  The share price of PepsiCo (PEP) has appreciated by 21% year to date and is currently trading near its 52-week high. In my view, investors should avoid the shares now as the stretched valuation has left s very limited margin of safety on the investment. My bearish opinion is backed by the following reasons:

• [By Blake Bos]

  Late last night, an article was published in an Israeli newspaper claiming that Pepsi (NYSE: PEP  ) would bid nearly $2 billion to buy SodaStream (NASDAQ: SODA  ) , at around a 40% premium to the stock's previous close. In the video below, Motley Fool consumer-goods analyst Blake Bos gives investors the blow-by-blow on SodaStream's ensuing share price chaos, as shares first skyrocketed, then fell tumultuously, when Pepsi's CEO came out with a statement that the story was totally and completely untrue. Blake also highlights why this roller coaster could be more evidence that SodaStream is a real threat to the giants of the soda industry, after all.

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