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Tim Biggam, TradingBlock  (September 13, 2011, 3:21 CDT)

PepsiCo, Inc. (ticker: PEP) is a global food, snack and beverage company. Outside of Pepsi, the Company’s brands include Quaker Oats, Tropicana, Gatorade, Lay’s, Pepsi, Walkers, Gamesa and Sabritas. The Company is organized into four business units: PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF), PepsiCo Americas Beverages (PAB), PepsiCo Europe and PepsiCo Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA).

Shares of PEP have come down sharply over the past month, dropping from the 70 level to nearly 60. This puts the valuation of PEP shares at levels not seen since the early 1990s, with multiples now approaching 15. Given the steady and consistent growth in earnings displayed by Pepsi over the past 25 years, we feel PEP shares are becoming a value at these levels.

Additionally, PEP sports a 3.3% yield, approaching historic highs. Given the current interest rate environment, we like stocks that pay more than the 10-year Treasury yield of 2%, while displaying solid and consistent growth.

Technically, there is solid support around 60, while being very oversold on 14-day RSI basis, dipping below 20 recently. Over the last ten years, levels this oversold have only occurred two previous times, both of which occurred at major lows.

With P/E valuations near 25-year lows, a steady stream of earnings, a dividend yield of 3.3% and a solid technical backdrop, we look for PEP shares to reach 68 by March 2012. 

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