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PepsiCo, Inc. ESG Profile (PEP): Is It Sustainable?

Updated on April 20, 2022

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Our (PEP) ESG Review

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$178.01
SymbolPEP
Price$178.01
52 Week High šŸ“ˆ$186.84
52 Week Low šŸ“‰$154.86
Earnings Per Share šŸ’µ6.43
Dividend Yield šŸ”2.548004

PepsiCo, Inc. is an American food and beverage corporation headquartered in Purchase, New York. PepsiCo has interests in the manufacturing, marketing, and distribution of grain-based snack foods, beverages, and other products.

PepsiCo’s environmental strategy focuses on three areas: water stewardship, energy management, and climate protection. The company has set goals to improve its water efficiency by 20% by 2025 and to reduce its absolute greenhouse gas emissions by 20% by 2030. PepsiCo is a member of the World Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Climate Savers Program, which aims to achieve 100% renewable electricity globally by 2050.

PepsiCo was ranked as the 19th best company in Newsweek’s 2019 America’s Most Responsible Companies list. The company was also included on the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index for the sixth consecutive year in 2019. PepsiCo received a perfect score of 100 on the 2018 Corporate Equality Index, which rates companies on their policies and practices relating to LGBTQ workplace equality.

What We Like
  • The company has strong financials, including a AAA credit rating.

  • PepsiCo has made progress on its sustainability goals, including reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 20% since 2006

  • PepsiCo's snack foods business is growing faster than its beverage business.

What We Don't Like
  • The company has a diversified product portfolio and is less reliant on sugary drinks than its competitors

  • Some of PepsiCo's products, such as Doritos, have been criticized for being unhealthy.

PEP ESG Summary

This is a summary of 's ESG scores from Sustainalytics, MSCI, and ESG Enterprise.

ESG Rating Agency Score or Rating
Sustainalytics 60
MSCI b
ESG Enterprise BBB

PEP
Sector: Consumer Defensive
Industry: Beverages—Non-Alcoholic
Employees: 309,000
Business Description

PepsiCo, Inc. operates as a food and beverage company worldwide. The company operates through seven segments: Frito-Lay North America; Quaker Foods North America; PepsiCo Beverages North America; Latin America; Europe; Africa, Middle East and South Asia; and Asia Pacific, Australia and New Zealand and China Region. It offers branded dips, cheese-flavored snacks, and tortillas, as well as corn, potato, and tortilla chips; cereals, rice, pasta, mixes and syrups, granola bars, grits, oatmeal, rice cakes, simply granola, and side dishes; beverage concentrates, fountain syrups, and finished goods; ready-to-drink tea, coffee, and juices; and dairy products. The company provides its products primarily under the Cheetos, Doritos, Fritos, Lay’s, Ruffles, Tostitos, Aunt Jemima, Cap’n crunch, Life, Pasta Roni, Quaker Chewy, Quaker, Rice-A-Roni, Aquafina, Diet Mountain Dew, Diet Pepsi, Gatorade, Mountain Dew, Pepsi, Propel, Sierra Mist, Tropicana, Emperador, Marias Gamesa, Rosquinhas Mabel, Sabritas, Saladitas, 7UP, Gatorade, H2oh!, Manzanita Sol, Mirinda, Pepsi, Pepsi Black, San Carlos, Toddy, Agusha, Chudo, and Domik v Derevne brands. It serves wholesale and other distributors, foodservice customers, grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, discount/dollar stores, mass merchandisers, membership stores, hard discounters, e-commerce retailers and authorized independent bottlers, and others through a network of direct-store-delivery, customer warehouse, and distributor networks, as well as directly to consumers through e-commerce platforms and retailers. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Purchase, New York.

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ExchangeNMS
Address700 Anderson Hill Road
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FAQ

How much is (PEP) stock?

The current stock price of (PEP) is $178.01.

What is (PEP)'s ESG Score?

(PEP) has an ESG score of 60, BBB, and b as rated from Sustainalytics, ESG Enterprise, and MSCI, respectively.

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$178.01
Open $177.66
High $178.17
Close $177.59
Low $176.28
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Sustainalytics 60
MSCI b
ESG Enterprise BBB

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