- Prev close
- $142.71
- Day range
- $138.00 – $142.17
- Next earnings
- in 86 days
PepsiCo’s recent move is best read as a mild pullback after a strong 30 day share price return of 13.52%, with the KFC renewal and steady fundamentals offset by a rich PEG of 4.13 that keeps swings from looking fully benign.
PEP
PEPSICO INC
As of Nov 6, 2026
60/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreWhy it moved
PepsiCo closed down -1.0% while the S&P 500 fell -4.4% and the Nasdaq 100 fell -6.5%, so the broad market was clearly weak too. But the stock’s own move was modest, and its peers were mixed to weaker — KO -0.1%, MNST -4.4%, KDP -0.7%, and COKE -2.2% — which points to a largely sector-wide risk-off session rather than a PepsiCo-specific shock. The intraday path also looks orderly: it opened at $138.305, traded to $142.17, dipped to $138, and finished at $141.34, so the close was well above the low and not a disorderly selloff.
Normal volatility?
This looks like ordinary volatility rather than deterioration. Revenue is still growing +6.4% YoY (TTM) and +5.6% YoY in the latest quarter, while EPS is up +51.3% YoY (TTM); margins are also solid at gross +54.3%, operating +15.0%, and net +11.1%. The valuation is not cheap at PE 17.6 and forward PE 16.1, and the PEG is 4.13 — the P/E divided by the growth rate, so investors are paying 4.13x the growth rate — which means good growth is already priced in and can amplify either upside or downside. Beta is only 0.29, so a 1.0% move is still within a low-volatility profile, but the stock’s 30 day share price return of 13.52% and 7 day move of 6.67% show it had already run up before this pause.
Earnings preview
The next earnings date is 2027-02-01. The facts here do not include analyst EPS or revenue estimates for that print, so I can’t quote a consensus growth forecast or margin expectation from this set. What the market is likely to focus on is whether revenue growth stays near the recent +6.4% YoY (TTM) and +5.6% YoY latest-quarter pace, whether EPS growth can hold after the +51.3% YoY (TTM) step-up, and whether operating margin remains near +15.0%. Prior post-earnings reaction history is not provided in the facts, so I won’t infer a pattern.
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