PepsiCo is a beverage and convenient food company. Co.'s segments include: Frito-Lay North America, which includes its convenient food businesses in the U.S. and Canada; Quaker Foods North America, which includes cereal, rice, pasta and other branded food businesses in the U.S. and Canada; PepsiCo Beverages North America, which includes its beverage businesses in the U.S. and Canada; Latin America, which includes its beverage and convenient food businesses in Latin America; Europe, which includes its beverage and convenient food businesses in Europe; and Africa, Middle East and South Asia, which includes its beverage and convenient food businesses in Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. We show 57 historical shares outstanding datapoints in our PEP shares outstanding history coverage, used to compute PEP market cap on those dates.
Understanding the changing numbers of shares outstanding, the changing
share price, and the resulting changing PepsiCo market cap history over the course of time is important for investors
interested in comparing PepsiCo's market cap history versus its peers.
Many "beginner" or "novice" investors will look at one stock trading at a price of $10 per share and another trading at
a price of $20 per share and think the latter company is worth twice as much. Of course, that is a completely meaningless comparison without also knowing how many shares outstanding there are for each of the two companies,
and then calculating their respective market caps. Comparing the share price of PepsiCo versus a peer is one thing; comparing
PepsiCo market cap versus a peer is a completely different story.
Furthermore, via fluctuation both in per-share price and in the number of shares outstanding (via issuance of new shares over time, the repurchase of existing shares),
the market cap for a company like PepsiCo can fluctuate over the course of history.
With this page we aim to empower investors researching PepsiCo by allowing them to research the PepsiCo market cap history. |
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