PepsiCo Inc.
New York symbol PEP, is the world’s second-largest maker of soft drinks after Coca-Cola. Other businesses include Frito-Lay snack foods, Tropicana fruit juices and Quaker Oats.
A: The First Trust Dow Jones Internet Index Fund ETF, $145.22, symbol FDN on New York (Units outstanding: 56.1 million; Market cap: $8.1 billion; www.ftportfolios.com) aims to track the Dow Jones Internet Composite Index.
For a stock to be considered for a spot in the index, the company must generate at least 50% of its annual sales/revenues from the Internet....
For a stock to be considered for a spot in the index, the company must generate at least 50% of its annual sales/revenues from the Internet....
The COVID outbreak has prompted consumers to stock up on non-perishable foods. That has helped push up the stock prices of both these food producers. Even so, Campbell Soup is a better choice for your new buying, as it gets most of its sales from consumers instead of currently closed restaurants, movie theatres and sports stadiums.
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Traditionally, the price of most stocks, and the ETFs that hold them, drop during bear markets such as the one we’re now in. However, certain segments generally perform better than the overall market during extended downturns, including the 2000-2002 and 2008-2009 bear markets....
Consumers continue to shift to more-healthful foods with less sugar and salt. That has forced many makers of packaged foods to improve the quality of their products—and so protect value for investors. Industry leaders are also using acquisitions to bolster their current offerings....
THOMSON REUTERS CORP. $94 remains a buy. The company (Toronto symbol TRI; Conservative Growth Dividend Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 500.0 million; Market cap: $47.0 billion; Dividend yield: 2.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Highest; www.thomsonreuters.com) last raised its quarterly dividend with the March 2019 payment....
PEPSICO INC. $135 (Nasdaq symbol PEP; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $189.0 billion; Dividend yield: 2.8%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pepsico.com) last raised its quarterly dividend with the June 2019 payment by 3.0%, to $0.955 a share from $0.9275....
ETF managers employ various strategies to produce portfolios that have lower volatility, or risk, than the overall stock market. At the same time, they also aim to keep up with overall market gains despite the lower risk.
Below we analyze three ETFs with lower volatility portfolios....
SONY CORP. ADRs $52 (www.sony.net) has come under pressure from activist investor Daniel Loeb, who through his Third Point hedge fund controls $1.5 billion of the company’s shares, or about 2% of its market cap. The activist wants Sony to spin off its chip business as a separate company, and sell its stakes in publicly traded firms, including Sony Financial, Olympus and Spotify....
PEPSICO INC. $128 (Nasdaq symbol PEP; Conservative-Growth Payer Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 1.4 billion; Market cap: $179.2 billion; Dividend yield: 3.0%; Dividend Sustainability Rating: Above Average; www.pepsico.com) is the world’s second-largest soft-drink maker after Coca-Cola....
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