PEP

PepsiCo, Inc. ·Nasdaq Global Select·Consumer Staples
138.70 live · 2026-08-12 15:59
27.8%
Brown Bear Score
41.5%
Business Conviction Score
37.0%
Position Health Score
11.1%
Chase Risk
Daily closes

Daily closes · 1Y (252 sessions) · -5.6% · range 134.95–170.49

The Businesswhat the company reports

Business & cash flow

FCF / assets 7.1%
OCF / assets 11.3%
FCF / revenue 12.9%
Gross margin 54.2%
ROIC 15.2%
Forward P/E 15.4

FCF/assets and OCF/assets are the cash-flow measures Brown Bear's own testing found to survive; FCF/revenue is shown alongside for context. Assets are from the latest annual filing (FY2025).

Price vs Earnings growth

Forward EPS growth has outpaced trailing price return by +23.2pp

Confidence 95.0/100

Takeaway Earnings growth is outpacing price — consistent with the stock not yet fully reflecting its improving forward estimates.

Reported earnings

Next report 2026-10-07 before the open · consensus EPS 2.32

Q3 23 revenue: 23.45bnQ3 23 net income: 3.09bnQ3 23 EPS: 2.24Q4 23 revenue: 27.85bnQ4 23 net income: 1.30bnQ4 23 EPS: 0.94Q4 23Q1 24 revenue: 18.25bnQ1 24 net income: 2.04bnQ1 24 EPS: 1.48Q2 24 revenue: 22.50bnQ2 24 net income: 3.08bnQ2 24 EPS: 2.24Q2 24Q3 24 revenue: 23.32bnQ3 24 net income: 2.93bnQ3 24 EPS: 2.13Q4 24 revenue: 27.78bnQ4 24 net income: 1.52bnQ4 24 EPS: 1.11Q4 24Q1 25 revenue: 17.92bnQ1 25 net income: 1.83bnQ1 25 EPS: 1.33Q2 25 revenue: 22.73bnQ2 25 net income: 1.26bnQ2 25 EPS: 0.92Q2 25Q3 25 revenue: 23.94bnQ3 25 net income: 2.60bnQ3 25 EPS: 1.90Q4 25 revenue: 29.34bnQ4 25 net income: 2.54bnQ4 25 EPS: 1.85Q4 25Q1 26 revenue: 19.44bnQ1 26 net income: 2.33bnQ1 26 EPS: 1.70Q2 26 revenue: 24.18bnQ2 26 net income: 2.98bnQ2 26 EPS: 2.18Q2 26

Revenue Net incomeEPS (GAAP) (0.92–2.24, own scale) Derived Q4

12 quarters to Q2 26. Revenue and net income share one scale, so the gap between them is the margin. The line is GAAP EPS — it spans every quarter shown, where the reported figure only goes back as far as the consensus feed does.

Quarter endingRevenueYoY Net incomeEPS (GAAP) EPS reportedvs consensus Filed
2026-06-13 24.18bn +6.4% 2.98bn 2.18 2026-07-09
2026-03-21 19.44bn +8.5% 2.33bn 1.70 1.61 +2.8% 2026-04-16
2025-12-27 (derived) 29.34bn +5.6% 2.54bn 1.85 2.26 +0.0% 2026-02-03
2025-09-06 23.94bn +2.7% 2.60bn 1.90 2025-10-09

Earnings response

Typical move around a filing ±3.0%
On an ordinary two days ±0.9% — filings move it 3.3× as much
Direction 10 up, 2 down over 12 filings
Revenue change and price reaction, by quarter
Q3 22 revenue +8.8% year on yearQ3 22 filed 2022-10-12: price +7.4%Q1 23 revenue +10.2% year on yearQ1 23 filed 2023-04-25: price +1.6%Q1 23Q2 23 revenue +10.4% year on yearQ2 23 filed 2023-07-13: price +2.8%Q3 23 revenue +6.7% year on yearQ3 23 filed 2023-10-10: price +0.8%Q3 23Q1 24 revenue +2.3% year on yearQ1 24 filed 2024-04-23: price +0.5%Q2 24 revenue +0.8% year on yearQ2 24 filed 2024-07-11: price +1.7%Q2 24Q3 24 revenue -0.6% year on yearQ3 24 filed 2024-10-08: price +3.2%Q1 25 revenue -1.8% year on yearQ1 25 filed 2025-04-24: price -6.2%Q1 25Q2 25 revenue +1.0% year on yearQ2 25 filed 2025-07-17: price +5.8%Q3 25 revenue +2.7% year on yearQ3 25 filed 2025-10-09: price +8.1%Q3 25Q1 26 revenue +8.5% year on yearQ1 26 filed 2026-04-16: price +1.8%Q2 26 revenue +6.4% year on yearQ2 26 filed 2026-07-09: price -3.6%Q2 26

Revenue up year on year Revenue down Price move around the filing separate scales — a crossing means nothing

Quarter endingFiledRevenue YoY Move around filingNext 20 sessions vs SPY
2026-06-13 2026-07-09 +6.4% -3.6% -1.2%
2026-03-21 2026-04-16 +8.5% +1.8% -9.5%
2025-09-06 2025-10-09 +2.7% +8.1% -7.5%
2025-06-14 2025-07-17 +1.0% +5.8% +2.5%

Share count

Diluted shares over time

Diluted shares Return since the previous filing

Direction Flat — little net change
Diluted shares 1,369.0M as at 2026-06-13
Change over 1 year -0.3%
Change over 3 years -1.1%
Public float $179.00bn as at 2025-06-13 (10-K)

The Pricewhat the chart is doingTop ↑

Price Levels

StrategyCurrent Price Reasonable
Reference band 136.62 — 140.09
Protective stop 133.14 (Structure, 3.8% risk)
Support 134.39 (5 touches, 3.2% away)
Resistance 140.91 (1.6% away)

Takeaway The shares are nearer the ceiling than the floor: about 1.6% below 140.91, where sellers have turned up before, and 3.2% above 134.39, where buyers have stepped in before. That floor has held 5 times, which is how it was spotted. If someone bought at today's price and sold if it dropped through the level below, they would be about 3.8% out of pocket. That is all this figure means — an illustration of the risk, not a price to sell at.

Levels are computed from price structure. They describe where the engine locates support and extension — they are not targets, and not advice.

Ichimoku Cloud (Adaptive)

Daily cloudPrice BELOW the cloud | periods 8/22/45 (86% of classic 9/26/52)
LinesTenkan/Kijun BEAR | cloud twist BEAR
Cloud thickness26% percentile (thin — little structure to fight through)
Chikou spanAbove price from 26 periods ago
Weekly cloudPrice BELOW the weekly cloud (context only, not scored)

Takeaway The stock is trading below its cloud — a shaded band drawn from several of its own moving averages, currently 140.44 to 141.38. Being below it means the medium-term picture is pointing downwards, and that band is the first hurdle it would have to climb back through. Its shorter-term averages agree with that.

Trailing returns

21 days +2.4%
63 days -8.7%
126 days -16.9%
252 days -4.3%
Below 252d high18.6%

Trend context

PositionBelow trend
ExtensionOversold
Trend slopeFalling
Direction of travelDiverging from trend

Takeaway The share price is below the level its own longer-run trend suggests is fair, and that fair level is drifting down. The gap between the two has been widening. Being this far below trend describes how far it has already fallen. It does not mean a bounce is due.

Volatility

State No recent compression
Current band width6.7% of price
Recent tightest6.7% (0 sessions ago, narrower than 76.0% of its history)
Expansion since1.00×
Band 133.89 — 143.10

Takeaway Lately this share price has been swinging around inside a range roughly 7% wide. That is normal for this stock, so there is nothing unusual to read into it either way.

Historical trends

0255075100Share price 135.00–144.982026-07-032026-08-12
Position Health Business Conviction Share price

History begins when the site started recording, not when the company listed, so a short line means a short record and nothing more.

Repair Pathway

  1. Nearest Trigger EMA20 reclaim +0.2% gap is improving · Broadly stable
  2. Trigger 2 Volume confirmation above 1.2x +0.20x volume confirmation would improve confidence in the pathway · Broadly stable
  3. Trigger 3 MACD histogram acceleration turns positive repair trigger repair engine identifies this as the nearest technical repair catalyst · Broadly stable
  4. Trigger 4 Relative momentum rank back above 0.45 secondary repair secondary repair catalyst could add confirmation if the primary trigger develops · Broadly stable
  5. Trigger 5 EMA50 reclaim +1.8% gap is deteriorating · Broadly stable

Who's Tradingthe flow behind the priceTop ↑

Insider activity

ActivityNo filings in the window
Buy filings0
Sell filings0

Open-market Form 4 purchases and sales over the last 75 days, read from SEC EDGAR Form 4. Grants, option exercises, gifts and shares withheld for tax are excluded — they are compensation mechanics, not a decision to buy or sell. Reported Form 4 activity. Brown Bear tested insider cluster-buying as a return signal and rejected it as era-unstable; shown as fact, not signal.

Volume confirmation

Volume-price trend Below its signal line
Confirmation Marginal

No absorption or distribution event in the recent window.

Takeaway The heaviest trading has been happening on days when the price falls: when large numbers of shares change hands, the price has tended to go down rather than up. That tells you where the weight of trading has been. It does not tell you what happens next, and it is not a signal to sell.

Options Positioning

No binary-event flag

PEP: no binary-event flag. Near IV 22%, far IV 26% (ratio 0.85), implied move 2.8%.

Implied volatility 22% near (9d) · 26% far (65d)
Term structure 0.85× near/far
Historical volatility 21%
Implied vs historical 1.07×
Implied move ±2.8% by 2026-08-21
Implied move vs ATR 0.51×
Skew Call Skew (0.85×)
Call wall 210.00 (+51.4% away)
Put wall 80.00 (-42.3% away)
Gamma pin 210.00

Takeaway Insuring against a move in this stock costs less for the next few weeks than for the next few months, which is the normal state of affairs and suggests no particular date is worrying anyone. Options traders are positioned for a move of around 2.8% in either direction by 2026-08-21.

Chain as at 2026-08-12. This is a risk read on whether a specific event is being priced — not a directional view.

Context & Methodthe record, and how it was builtTop ↑

Relative Rotation

ImprovingLeadingLaggingWeakeningvs sectorvs SPYsector vs SPYRS-Ratio →RS-Momentum →

Leadership Cooling

Rotation health 49.0/100; Mixed Rotation.

Rotation health 49.0
Rotation strength 79.7
LegQuadrantRS-RatioRS-Mom
Stock vs sector Leading 114.3 108.7
Stock vs SPY Lagging 98.7 89.5
Sector vs SPY Lagging 84.3 87.1

Direction of travel: South-West / deteriorating rotation

Position only. Brown Bear's RRG redesign programme is closed — five constructions, none beat an appropriate null — so this section describes where the name sits, and is not a signal.

News Headlines

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Headlines are supplied by third-party feeds and are not written, ranked or interpreted by Brown Bear. They feed no score on this page.

Detailed Scoring

Positive signals

  • Piotroski F-score 5/9 (+10.0)
  • Altman Z-score 3.42 (+5.0)
  • Insider conviction score (+5.0)
  • Gross margin quality: 54.2% (+12.5)
  • ROIC quality: 15.2% (+8.8)
  • FCF margin quality: 12.9% (+8.6)
  • FCF margin improving by -0.8 pts (+-3.0)
  • High earnings quality (accrual ratio -0.036) (+2.0)
  • Accrual ratio improving (-0.03 -> -0.04) (+5.0)
  • Track 1: MACD histogram state (0.11) (+4.0)
  • Track 1: 20-day momentum acceleration 0.10 (+6.0)
  • Track 1: bullish DI spread 15.1 (+5.0)
  • Track 1: ADX 25.2 and rising (+5.0)
  • Track 1: RSI recovery 61.3, 5-day change +13.0 (+5.1)
  • Track 1: EMA50 support proximity 1.7% (+3.5)
  • Track 1: EMA200 support proximity 5.6% (+3.1)
  • Track 1: Bollinger position 0.52 (+3.8)

Negative signals

  • Weak relative momentum rank (0.27)
  • Track 1: price below EMA20 by 0.2%
  • Track 1: EMA20 slope deteriorating -0.2%
  • Track 1: MACD histogram deteriorating (-0.29)
  • Track 1: weak VPT confirmation (-0.09)
  • Track 1: price below EMA50 by 1.7%
  • Track 1: EMA50 slope deteriorating -0.8%
  • Gross margin improving by -0.4 pts (+-3.0)
  • ROIC improving by -3.7 pts (+-5.0)

Chase risk is not elevated for this name, so extension penalties are omitted from the negative signals above.