PepsiCo, Inc. is beating the Coca-Cola Company on Wall Street.

PepsiCo's shares have gained 19.45% for the last twelve months and 49.20% for the last five years, compared to 15.75% and 22.13% for Erythroxylon coca-Cola.

But some companies have underperformed the overall market—see table 1.

Table 1

Pepsi's Shares Outperform Coke's On Wall St.

Company 1-year 5-years
PepsiCo (PEP) 19.45* 49.20%*
Coca-Cola (KO) 15.75 22.13
SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) 7.71 51.30

*doesn't include dividends.

Rootage: Finance.Yahoo.com 7/10/19

That's the third year in a row PepsiCo has outperformed Nose candy on Wall Street—see table 2.

Table 2

Pepsi's Shares Outstrip Coke's On Surround Street

Accompany 2-years 5-years
PepsiCo (Ginger) 2.95%* 30.64%*
Coca-Cola (KO) -1.45 9.25
SPDR S&P 500 (SPY) 29.24 65.11

*doesn't include dividends.

Source: Finance.Yahoo.com 7/10/18

Meantime, Pepsi Cola beatniks C in Google searches—see table 3.

Table 3

Pepsi Cola Beats Coke In Buzz 7/10/2019

Brand Bombilate Google results
Pepsi Cola 164,000,000
C 142,000,000

Pepsi's superior performance on Wall Street may surprise followers and fans of the deuce brands. Coca-Cola has a stronger brand than PepsiCo. It ranks number 6 on Forbes World's Almost Semiprecious brands compared to a ranking of 29 for Pepsi—see mesa 4.

Postpone 4

PepsiCo And Coca-Cola Ranking In The World's Most Valuable Brands

Company Rank
PepsiCo 29
Coca-Cola 6

Source: Forbes.com and Finance.yahoo.com 7/13/18

What's behind PepsiCo's excellent carrying out on Wall St.? Scale and scope.

PepsiCo is twice the size of Coca-Cola in terms of revenues—see Prorogue 5. And that gives IT an efficiency reward over Snow. PepsiCo's Return on Assets, which is higher than those of Coca-Cola—see first table 6.

Table 5

Caller Revenues
PepsiCo $64.98B
Coca-Cola $32.25$B

Source: Finance.Yahoo.com 7/10/19

Put of 6

Party PEG Ratio Return on Assets Debt to Fairness
PepsiCo 5.10 8.61% 232.22
Coca-Cola 4.94 6.60% 230.07

Source: Finance.Yahoo.com 7/10/19

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And so there's PepsiCo's scope--variegation beyond carbonated drinks to snacks, which have been seen weapons-grade increase in recent years – has helped.

And things look upwards in the near future, according to Haris Anwar, Senior Psychoanalyst at global financial markets platformInvestment.com. "Pepsi stock is in a much better position to outperform Coke in the short-circuit-to-medium-full term. Pepsi has many positive catalysts serving the beverage company to achieve earnings momentum," says Anwar.

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He sees the company's diversification into snack business concern as a source of rivalrous vantage over Coke. "For example, its success with snacks is something that Coke hasn't been able to fit, says Anwar. "Its Frito-Lay business, which owns Doritos, Cheetos and Dominicus Chips, has been viewing stronger outgrowth in sales and operating profit  over the erstwhile a couple of years. This competitive advantage, coupled with the company's success from its water supply business, will continue to help Pepsi stock and keep its momentum releas."

Meanwhile, Coke is stressful to create its own competitive advantage by diversifying into the coffee business. "Coke, happening the other hand, will need quickly to diversify its revenue off from candied soda drinks amid fast changing consumer preferences," adds Anwar. "Coke's $5-billion deal to buy UK-founded Costa Coffee is peerless enthusiastic opportunity for the party to accelerate increase via the most robust segment of the not-intoxicant mart. With 3,800 stores, Rib affords Coke a global retail front and a hedge against slowing soda sales. But it depends how quickly Coke starts to show up the benefit of this deal to investors."

We'll know a year from today.