Operating Profit Increased 12 Percent and Net Income Grew 9 Percent
EPS Increased to $1.05; Excluding Mark-to-Market Gains, EPS Was up 11
Percent to $1.03
PepsiCo Confirms Full-Year Earnings Per Share Guidance of at Least
$3.72, excluding Mark-to-Market Gains/Losses
Company Raises Intended 2008 Share Repurchases by at Least $1 Billion
PURCHASE, N.Y., July 23 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PepsiCo, Inc.
(NYSE: PEP) today reported strong second-quarter operating results, with 14
percent net revenue and 12 percent operating profit growth. The Company
delivered earnings per share of $1.05. Excluding current and prior year
mark-to-market gains on commodity positions included in corporate unallocated
expenses, earnings per share would have totaled $1.03, up 11 percent.
Summary of PepsiCo Second-Quarter and Year-to-Date 2008 Results
Quarter Alone Year-to-Date
% Growth % Growth
Volume (Servings) 5 4.5
Revenue 14 14
Division Operating Profit 7 8
Operating Profit 12 11
Net Income 9 7
Earnings Per Share (EPS) 13 10
EPS ex-Mark-to-Market 11 10
PepsiCo Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Indra Nooyi said, "The
strength and breadth of our global portfolio and geographic footprint
delivered another quarter of solid results. PepsiCo continued to drive growth
across its worldwide snacks and beverage businesses primarily through strong
product innovation, well-executed pricing actions and focus on expense control
and productivity." Nooyi continued, "We are proud of our first-half
performance and confident that we are well-positioned to deliver on our
outlook amidst a challenging macroeconomic environment."
The results at PepsiCo Americas Foods (PAF) reflected solid top- and
bottom-line performance across all segments of the business in spite of
difficult macroeconomic conditions and rapidly escalating commodity costs.
Frito-Lay North America (FLNA). Our strong brands enabled 2 percent
volume growth even as high-single-digit net price increases were realized
from weight-outs and visual pricing to offset commodity inflation. FLNA
revenue growth of 8 percent was broad based, and operating profit grew 8
percent, driven by net revenue growth and productivity, partially offset
by higher costs for cooking oil, energy and fuel.
Volume growth was driven by double-digit growth in trademark Cheetos,
Ruffles, Quaker Chewy Granola and SunChips. Innovation was the key for
both Cheetos (e.g. Cracker Trax) and SunChips, which introduced new
flavors and was supported by the 'Made From the Sun' marketing campaign.
Weight-outs and a promotional shift to help manage potato supply
constraints led to a high-single-digit volume decrease in trademark Lay's;
but revenues were up high-single-digits. While pricing actions also
contributed to a mid-single-digit volume decrease in trademark Doritos,
revenues were up low-single digits. Single serve packages continued to
provide volume growth.
At Quaker Foods North America (QFNA), volume grew 2 percent, reflecting an
increase in Quaker Oatmeal, grits and Rice-A-Roni. Revenue and operating
profit grew 4 percent.
At the end of the second quarter, flooding in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, shut
down our major Quaker manufacturing facility. The Company expects to be
back to full production levels by mid-August, but we are experiencing
supply disruptions, and many Quaker products have been on allocation. We
expect insurance to cover asset damage and business interruption exposures
in the second half of the year.
At Latin America Foods (LAF) organic revenue and profit increased 10
percent and 21 percent, respectively, despite higher commodity costs.
Revenue growth was driven by broad based pricing actions at our key
businesses of Sabritas and Gamesa. At Sabritas unit volumes grew
mid-single digits; kilo volume declined by low-single digits as expected,
largely due to weight-outs. Also consistent with expectations, Gamesa
experienced double-digit net revenue growth due to favorable pricing
actions; its volume was essentially flat in the quarter lapping
double-digit growth in the prior year. In total, LAF volume grew 4
percent, benefiting from the Lucky brands acquisition in Brazil in the
fourth quarter of 2007.
PepsiCo Americas Beverages (PAB). In North America, the economic slowdown
continues to pressure the liquid refreshment beverage category with a decline
across convenience channels and a reduction in the growth of unflavored water.
In this environment, PAB volume decreased 1 percent during the quarter, driven
by a 3 percent decline in North America that was partially offset by a mid-
single-digit volume increase in Latin America. As a result, net revenue grew
1 percent and operating profit declined 7 percent.
The North American carbonated soft drink (CSD) portfolio gained market
share in measured channels. While showing sequential improvement, CSD volume
declined 2 percent due to category softness. Trademarks Mountain Dew and
Sierra Mist both grew low-single digits, partially offsetting a mid-single
digit decline in trademark Pepsi. Non-carbonated beverages (NCB) volume
declined 4 percent primarily due to a double-digit decline in unflavored
water. Volume growth in the Company's North American energy drinks
portfolio -- led by triple-digit volume growth for Amp Energy and more than 50
percent volume growth for SoBe Life Water -- was partially offset by
mid-single-digit declines in juice. Gatorade volume was up slightly for the
quarter.
The Company's Latin America Beverage business (LAB) continues to produce
strong top- and bottom-line growth. LAB's broad-based volume growth was
driven by mid-single-digit growth in the CSD portfolio and double-digit growth
in NCBs.
PepsiCo International (PI) continued to deliver strong performance while
lapping over 20 percent revenue growth and over 30 percent profit growth from
prior year. PI captured broad-based volume gains in snacks and beverages even
as the Company continued to implement pricing actions across its markets.
In the UK/Europe (UKEU) segment, broad-based snack volume growth of 8
percent was driven by double-digit growth in Russia and high-single-digit
growth in Poland. Additionally, Walkers in the United Kingdom grew at a
mid-single-digit rate. The acquisition of the Penelopa nuts and seeds
business in Bulgaria increased total snack volume by 1 point. UKEU
beverage volume grew 20 percent, primarily reflecting the Sandora
acquisition and the expansion of the Pepsi Lipton International joint
venture, which together contributed 17 percentage points to volume growth.
UKEU net revenue increased 24 percent, reflecting volume growth and
effective net pricing in major markets; foreign exchange contributed 11
percentage points and acquisitions 4 percentage points of growth.
Operating profit grew 19 percent driven by net revenue growth and
partially offset by increased commodity costs; foreign exchange added 9
percentage points and acquisitions 4 percentage points to growth.
Middle East/Africa/Asia (MEAA) segment snack volume grew 13 percent, led
by double-digit growth across the Middle East, India, South Africa and
China. In beverages, 10 percent volume growth in the MEAA segment
reflected broad-based gains led primarily by double-digit growth in the
Middle East, China and India. CSD volume grew at a high-single-digit rate
and NCBs grew at a double-digit rate. Net revenue for snacks and
beverages increased 25 percent, reflecting volume growth and effective net
pricing; foreign exchange contributed 6 percentage points to net revenue
growth. Operating profit grew 16 percent as a result of revenue growth,
partially offset by higher commodity costs; foreign exchange contributed 4
percentage points to growth.
Commodity mark-to-market valuation gains contributed to EPS growth.
For the quarter, corporate unallocated expenses decreased $71 million
compared to last year, primarily due to increased mark-to-market gains on
commodity hedges ($61 million this quarter compared with $13 million in the
second quarter last year). Excluding this net $48 million mark-to-market
valuation change, corporate unallocated costs would have decreased $23 million
compared to last year, driven by lower employee-related costs, which were
partially offset by continued investment in our business transformation
initiative and higher investments in research and development. Net interest
expense increased $21 million. For the quarter, the reported tax rate was
26.7 percent versus 26.5 percent in the previous year.
For the Company in total, foreign exchange contributed 4 percentage points
to revenue growth and 3 percentage points to operating profit growth.
Acquisitions accounted for 3 percentage points to revenue growth and 1
percentage point to operating profit growth.
2008 GUIDANCE
The Company expects full-year 2008 performance of three to five percent
volume growth, low-double-digit net revenue growth (including acquisitions and
foreign exchange) and EPS of at least $3.72 excluding the impact of any mark-
to-market gains/losses. The Company is not able to provide guidance on the
2008 projected EPS growth including the impact of the mark-to-market gains or
losses on commodity hedges due to the unpredictability of future changes in
commodity prices.
Cash provided by operating activities is expected to be approximately $7.6
billion and capital spending about $2.7 billion. In 2008, the Company intends
to repurchase at least $5.3 billion of its shares, subject to market
conditions. This represents an increase of at least $1 billion from its
previously announced intention to spend $4.3 billion in share repurchases in
2008. As of the end of the second quarter, the Company spent $2.9 billion
repurchasing its shares in 2008.
About PepsiCo
PepsiCo is one of the world's largest food and beverage companies, with
2007 annual revenues of more than $39 billion. The Company employs
approximately 185,000 people worldwide, and its products are sold in
approximately 200 countries. Its principal businesses include: Frito-Lay
snacks, Pepsi-Cola beverages, Gatorade sports drinks, Tropicana juices and
Quaker foods. The PepsiCo portfolio includes 18 brands that generate $1
billion or more each in annual retail sales. PepsiCo's commitment to
sustainable growth, defined as Performance with Purpose, is focused on
generating healthy financial returns while giving back to communities the
Company serves. This includes meeting consumer needs for a spectrum of
convenient foods and beverages, reducing the Company's impact on the
environment through water, energy and packaging initiatives, and supporting
its employees through a diverse and inclusive culture that recruits and
retains world-class talent. PepsiCo is listed on the Dow Jones Sustainability
North America Index and the Dow Jones Sustainability World Index. For more
information, please visit www.pepsico.com.
Cautionary Statement
This release contains statements concerning PepsiCo's expectations for
future performance, including our 2008 guidance. These "forward-looking
statements" are based on currently available information, operating plans and
projections about future events and trends. They inherently involve risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those
predicted in such forward-looking statements. Such risks and uncertainties
include, but are not limited to: changes in demand for our products, as a
result of shifts in consumer preferences or otherwise; our ability to maintain
our reputation; our ability to build and sustain our information technology
infrastructure, successfully implement our business process transformation
initiative or outsource certain functions effectively; fluctuations in the
cost and availability of raw materials; our ability to compete effectively;
disruption of our supply chain; trade consolidation, the loss of any key
customer, or failure to maintain good relationships with our bottling
partners; changes in the legal or regulatory environment; our ability to hire
or retain key employees; unfavorable economic, environmental or political
conditions in the countries where we operate; and market risks arising from
changes in commodity prices, foreign exchange rates and interest rates. For
additional information on these and other factors that could cause our actual
results to materially differ from those set forth herein, please see our
filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent
annual report on Form 10-K and subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K.
Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-
looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. PepsiCo
undertakes no obligation to update any forward-looking statements, whether as
a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
Miscellaneous Disclosures
Conference Call. At 11 a.m. (Eastern Time) today, the Company will host a
conference call with investors to discuss second-quarter 2008 results and the
outlook for the full-year 2008. For details, visit the Company's website at
www.pepsico.com, under "Financial Press Releases" in the "Investors" section.
Reconciliation. In discussing financial results and guidance, the Company
may refer to certain non-GAAP measures. Reconciliations of any such non-GAAP
measures to the most directly comparable financial measures in accordance with
GAAP can be found under "PepsiCo Financial Press Releases" on the Company's
website in the "Investors" section at www.pepsico.com.
Bottler Volume. Volume for products sold by PepsiCo's bottlers is
reported by PepsiCo on a monthly basis, with the second quarter comprising
April and May for North America, and March, April and May for our bottlers
outside of North America.
Bottler Case Sales (BCS). BCS represents physical beverage volume shipped
to retailers and independent distributors from both PepsiCo and our bottlers.
Concentrate Shipment Equivalents (CSE). CSE represents PepsiCo's physical
beverage volume shipments to bottlers, retailers and independent distributors.
"Effective net pricing" refers to the combined impact of mix and price.
"Net pricing" refers to the combined impact of list price changes, discounts
and allowances. "Pricing" refers to the impact of list price changes.
Mark-to-market gain or loss. The change in market value for financial
instruments, such as commodity contracts, that we purchase to mitigate the
volatility in costs of energy and raw materials that we consume. The market
value is determined based on average prices on national exchanges and recently
reported transactions in the marketplace.
Organic revenue and/or profit growth. Growth excluding the impact of
foreign exchange and acquisition/divestiture activity.
Division Operating Profit. The aggregation of the operating profit for
each of our reportable segments, which excludes the impact of corporate
unallocated expenses.
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