Anybody know why Pepsico is offering Senior notes? One is one billion at 2.625% due in 2029 and another one billion note at 3.375% due 2049. Maybe it's to help with Sodastream and Pioneer foods purchase.
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It appears that there is some scammy stock trader trolling for info on this site. This site should be for ex (or current) employees with insight (or opinions) on specific topics that will only make sense to those who were (or are) employees. This post @10gRmrtQ (or this one @10gRDTyg) offer no information of that sort - but rather the posts just seek info based on publicly-available filings. Don't feed the trolls.
Knowing PepsiCo they are probably borrowing money to keep buying back their shares and to pay dividends which cost $6.651 billion in 2018.
Cash on hand has dropped from $19.5 billion in 2017 to $3.75 billion as of June 2019 no doubt the result of recent purchases. The company is in good shape long term debt wise and with the low interest rates offering the notes to raise cash is cheaper than selling additional PepsiCo shares on markets which would drive down the share price, lower earnings per share, ect.