PepsiCo Braces for High Inflation and Elasticity Shifts

As PepsiCo beat the expectations of Wall Street in the company’s second quarter and had seen organic revenue growth is decreased by 13 percent, which is prompting to bump-up the company’s complete revenue expectations, and the company has stopped short of also increasing the earnings of the company per share for 2022.

PepsiCo is now expecting organic revenue growth for full year to reach 10 percent, which is increased from previously predicted 8 percent, because of the higher than anticipated growth in the company second quarter.

The 13 percent increase had been on par with the 12.8 percent it has delivered in the same period in 2021, and had been driven by both volume growth and the price mix realizations across the region of North America, which had increased by 11 percent, and international markets, which had been increased by 15 percent.

This optimism does not extend yet to other facets of the company’s financial outlook as it is indicated by the company opting to hold the EPS expectation steady at 8 percent and the total cash returns to shareholders at around 7.7-billion dollars, and is comprised of both 6.2 percent billion dollars in the dividends.

Hugh Johnston, CFO at PepsiCo, said the first thing that they are thinking about these days is the level of volatility in the world, and although they feel highly confident in raising the revenue guidance, and for the guidance they have made a choice to hold right based on some of the volatility.