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PepsiCo (PEP) Competitors

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PEP vs. KO, MNST, COKE, FIZZ, DEO, KDP, ABEV, STZ, BF.B, and COCO

Should you be buying PepsiCo stock or one of its competitors? The main competitors of PepsiCo include Coca-Cola (KO), Monster Beverage (MNST), Coca-Cola Consolidated (COKE), National Beverage (FIZZ), Diageo (DEO), Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP), Ambev (ABEV), Constellation Brands (STZ), Brown-Forman (BF.B), and Vita Coco (COCO). These companies are all part of the "consumer staples" sector.

PepsiCo vs.

PepsiCo (NASDAQ:PEP) and Coca-Cola (NYSE:KO) are both large-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their profitability, analyst recommendations, community ranking, institutional ownership, risk, earnings, media sentiment, dividends and valuation.

In the previous week, Coca-Cola had 29 more articles in the media than PepsiCo. MarketBeat recorded 125 mentions for Coca-Cola and 96 mentions for PepsiCo. Coca-Cola's average media sentiment score of 0.90 beat PepsiCo's score of 0.24 indicating that Coca-Cola is being referred to more favorably in the news media.

Company Very Positive Positive Neutral Negative Very Negative Overall Sentiment
PepsiCo
31 Very Positive mention(s)
12 Positive mention(s)
20 Neutral mention(s)
20 Negative mention(s)
7 Very Negative mention(s)
Neutral
Coca-Cola
69 Very Positive mention(s)
15 Positive mention(s)
24 Neutral mention(s)
11 Negative mention(s)
2 Very Negative mention(s)
Positive

73.1% of PepsiCo shares are owned by institutional investors. Comparatively, 70.3% of Coca-Cola shares are owned by institutional investors. 0.1% of PepsiCo shares are owned by company insiders. Comparatively, 1.0% of Coca-Cola shares are owned by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

PepsiCo has a beta of 0.49, indicating that its stock price is 51% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Coca-Cola has a beta of 0.45, indicating that its stock price is 55% less volatile than the S&P 500.

PepsiCo pays an annual dividend of $5.42 per share and has a dividend yield of 4.0%. Coca-Cola pays an annual dividend of $2.04 per share and has a dividend yield of 2.9%. PepsiCo pays out 79.7% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. Coca-Cola pays out 81.6% of its earnings in the form of a dividend, suggesting it may not have sufficient earnings to cover its dividend payment in the future. PepsiCo has raised its dividend for 53 consecutive years and Coca-Cola has raised its dividend for 64 consecutive years. PepsiCo is clearly the better dividend stock, given its higher yield and lower payout ratio.

PepsiCo presently has a consensus price target of $160.69, suggesting a potential upside of 19.83%. Coca-Cola has a consensus price target of $75.59, suggesting a potential upside of 5.62%. Given PepsiCo's higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe PepsiCo is more favorable than Coca-Cola.

Company Sell Ratings Hold Ratings Buy Ratings Strong Buy Ratings Rating Score
PepsiCo
1 Sell rating(s)
13 Hold rating(s)
4 Buy rating(s)
0 Strong Buy rating(s)
2.17
Coca-Cola
0 Sell rating(s)
1 Hold rating(s)
17 Buy rating(s)
2 Strong Buy rating(s)
3.05

Coca-Cola has lower revenue, but higher earnings than PepsiCo. PepsiCo is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Coca-Cola, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

CompanyGross RevenuePrice/Sales RatioNet IncomeEarnings Per SharePrice/Earnings Ratio
PepsiCo$91.52B2.01$9.58B$6.8019.72
Coca-Cola$46.89B6.57$10.63B$2.5028.63

Coca-Cola received 96 more outperform votes than PepsiCo when rated by MarketBeat users. Likewise, 68.28% of users gave Coca-Cola an outperform vote while only 67.19% of users gave PepsiCo an outperform vote.

CompanyUnderperformOutperform
PepsiCoOutperform Votes
1120
67.19%
Underperform Votes
547
32.81%
Coca-ColaOutperform Votes
1216
68.28%
Underperform Votes
565
31.72%

Coca-Cola has a net margin of 22.59% compared to PepsiCo's net margin of 10.43%. PepsiCo's return on equity of 58.87% beat Coca-Cola's return on equity.

Company Net Margins Return on Equity Return on Assets
PepsiCo10.43% 58.87% 11.28%
Coca-Cola 22.59%45.37%12.24%

Summary

Coca-Cola beats PepsiCo on 14 of the 22 factors compared between the two stocks.

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PEP vs. The Competition

MetricPepsiCoBeverages IndustryStaples SectorNASDAQ Exchange
Market Cap$183.83B$51.66B$17.34B$7.93B
Dividend Yield4.06%2.64%2.92%4.22%
P/E Ratio19.2917.2915.4918.49
Price / Sales2.0129.414.13102.66
Price / Cash13.5821.9616.3934.62
Price / Book10.125.306.294.25
Net Income$9.58B$2.61B$731.54M$248.31M
7 Day Performance-0.90%-3.39%0.75%1.12%
1 Month Performance-10.41%45.73%-0.10%3.68%
1 Year Performance-23.44%-4.24%-1.66%5.19%

PepsiCo Competitors List

CompanyMarketRankShare PriceAnalysts' Price Target1Y Price PerformanceMarket CapRevenueP/E RatioEmployee CountIndicator(s)
PEP
PepsiCo
4.3771 of 5 stars
$133.80
-1.3%
$160.69
+20.1%
-22.9%$183.61B$91.52B19.27315,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
KO
Coca-Cola
4.0729 of 5 stars
$71.46
-0.6%
$75.06
+5.0%
+17.5%$307.61B$47.06B28.9482,500Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
MNST
Monster Beverage
3.1008 of 5 stars
$58.20
-0.8%
$58.39
+0.3%
+12.5%$56.67B$7.49B37.334,090Positive News
COKE
Coca-Cola Consolidated
0.7081 of 5 stars
$1,360.21
-0.6%
N/A+64.1%$11.86B$6.90B19.4717,000Earnings Report
Short Interest ↑
News Coverage
FIZZ
National Beverage
0.9615 of 5 stars
$43.27
-0.6%
$41.00
-5.2%
-0.2%$4.05B$1.19B21.751,580Positive News
DEO
Diageo
2.3244 of 5 stars
$110.99
+0.4%
$129.00
+16.2%
-18.9%$61.74B$20.21B16.2028,600Positive News
KDP
Keurig Dr Pepper
4.5488 of 5 stars
$34.03
-1.1%
$39.33
+15.6%
+2.6%$46.20B$15.35B20.6428,000Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
ABEV
Ambev
1.2231 of 5 stars
$2.48
+0.2%
$2.45
-1.0%
+8.8%$39.00B$89.45B13.7552,000Short Interest ↑
STZ
Constellation Brands
3.7512 of 5 stars
$185.28
0.0%
$224.42
+21.1%
-25.9%$33.50B$10.21B49.8210,000Short Interest ↑
Positive News
BF.B
Brown-Forman
2.7675 of 5 stars
$33.92
-0.1%
$43.06
+27.0%
-27.2%$16.06B$4.05B16.035,200News Coverage
COCO
Vita Coco
1.2248 of 5 stars
$29.85
-3.1%
$34.57
+15.8%
+36.3%$1.70B$516.01M30.15280Earnings Report
Analyst Forecast
News Coverage

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This page (NASDAQ:PEP) was last updated on 5/1/2025 by MarketBeat.com Staff
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