Pepsi reported two billion USD quarterly profits

The shares of PepsiCo. Inc. began to rise before the opening of the U.S. market after the company's third-quarter profit increased to 2 billion USD (1.25 USD per share). These figures were 1.92 billion USD and 1.19 USD per share in the previous year.

The company's third quarterly report contains the consolidated datas after the acquisition of the Wimm-Bill-Damm, Russian dairy and fruit company. The non-consolidated earnings per share increased to 1.31 from 1.22 USD. The sales revenue was 13 percent during the period – reports tozsdeforum.hu.