Credit: Shutterstock photoPepsico, Inc. ( PEP ) will begin trading ex-dividend on September 06, 2018. A cash dividend payment of $0.928 per share is scheduled to be paid on September 28, 2018. Shareholders who purchased PEP prior to the ex-dividend date are eligible for the cash dividend payment. This represents an 0.05% increase over prior dividend payment. At the current stock price of $111, the dividend yield is 3.34%.
The previous trading day's last sale of PEP was $111, representing a -9.4% decrease from the 52 week high of $122.51 and a 15.7% increase over the 52 week low of $95.94.
PEP is a part of the Consumer Non-Durables sector, which includes companies such as Coca-Cola Company ( KO ) and Anheuser-Busch Inbev SA ( BUD ). PEP's current earnings per share, an indicator of a company's profitability, is $3.21. Zacks Investment Research reports PEP's forecasted earnings growth in 2018 as 8.72%, compared to an industry average of 7.7%.
For more information on the declaration, record and payment dates, visit the PEP Dividend History page. Our Dividend Calendar has the full list of stocks that have an ex-dividend today.
Interested in gaining exposure to PEP through an Exchange Traded Fund [ETF]?
The following ETF(s) have PEP as a top-10 holding:
- iShares U.S. Consumer Goods ETF ( IYK )
- John Hancock Multifactor Consumer Staples ETF ( JHMS )
- SPDR Series Trust SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF ( SHE )
- iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF ( DGRO )
- Cambria Core Equity ETF ( CCOR ).
The top-performing ETF of this group is DGRO with an increase of 8.62% over the last 100 days. IYK has the highest percent weighting of PEP at 7.49%.
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