MDLZ
Mondelez International, Inc.Evidence as of 2026-09-02Overview · Mondelez International, Inc.
Mondelez International, Inc., through its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and sells snack food and beverage products in the Latin America, North America, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Europe. It provides biscuits and baked snacks, including cookies, crackers, salted snacks, snack bars, and cakes and pastries; chocolates; and gums and candies, as well as various cheese and grocery, and powdered beverage prod…
Management team
- Mr. Martin Renaud · Executive VP and Chief Marketing & Sales OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Filippo Catalano · Chief Information & Digital OfficerFind on LinkedIn
- Mr. Gustavo Carlos Valle · Executive VP & President of North AmericaFind on LinkedIn
- Ms. Stephanie Lilak · Executive VP & Chief People OfficerFind on LinkedIn
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Moneyta sentiment
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+0.0 on a −2 to +2 scale — was +0.1 before the debate changed the read.
What builds the score
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Editor's note
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Revenue and profitability measures improved year‑over‑year in the reported quarter: revenue for fiscal quarter ended 2026-04-24 (Q1 2026) was $ 10,080,000,000 versus $ 9,313,000,000 in fiscal quarter ended 2025-04-23 (Q1 2025). Gross profit rose to $ 2,803,000,000 from $ 2,430,000,000, pushing gross margin from about 26.1% to about 27.8% for those quarter-to-quarter comparisons.
Operating income increased to $ 808,000,000 (Q1 2026) from $ 680,000,000 (Q1 2025), and net income rose to $ 560,000,000 from $ 402,000,000. Shares outstanding fell by roughly 53.5 million between 2024-10-24 and 2026-04-24, while repurchase cash outflow in Q1 2026 was $ 0 versus $ 1,522,000,000 in the comparable prior quarter. Market signals are mixed: modest positive momentum (6‑month +6.7%, 3‑month +1.8%) sits alongside negative relative performance versus the S&P 500 (6‑month -5.6%, 12‑month -15.3%), elevated short‑ and medium‑term volatility (+24.8% annualized) and an income profile with a 3.25% trailing yield and 9.1% three‑year dividend growth.
How this note was made
every stage ran before the note was writtenAnalyst desk
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Reads the XBRL figures companies file with the SEC — revenue, margins, income, debt and share count, quarter by quarter — and reports which way the trend is running.
Revenue for the fiscal quarter 2026 Q1 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) was $10,080,000,000, up from $9,313,000,000 for the fiscal quarter 2025 Q1 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31).
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-26-027937Gross profit for the fiscal quarter 2026 Q1 (2026-01-01 to 2026-03-31) was $2,803,000,000, compared with $2,430,000,000 for the fiscal quarter 2025 Q1 (2025-01-01 to 2025-03-31); this corresponds to a gross margin increase from about 26.1% (2,430 / 9,313) to about 27.8% (2,803 / 10,080) year-over-year for those quarters.
XBRL companyfacts · 0001628280-26-027937Reads the filings themselves, above all the year-over-year diff of Item 1A risk factors: which risks a company added, dropped or quietly reworded since its last annual report.
Which filings the desk reads
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A Form 4 filing for the company was submitted with the 4 filed 21 August 2026 and was filed on 2026-08-21.
4 filed 2026-08-21The filing record shows parse_status marked as "skipped" for the 4 filed 21 August 2026.
4 filed 2026-08-21Reads the signal panel above — momentum, volatility, drawdown, relative strength and beta — and ranks each against the whole research universe rather than judging it in isolation.
Computed momentum is modestly positive over medium horizons: momentum_6m is +6.7% and momentum_3m is +1.8% as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01weakened in debateRelative performance versus the S&P 500 is negative: rel_strength_6m is -5.6% and rel_strength_12m is -15.3% as of 2026-09-01.
Moneyta signal set · 2026-09-01Reads which funds hold the name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings, to show the exposure you may already carry through index funds.
As of 2026-09-02, MDLZ is held in JEPI at 1.23% of that fund and in VYM at 0.49% of that fund, with additional listed weights including VTV 0.37%, VOO 0.16%, SCHX 0.16%, SCHB 0.15% and IVV 0.11%.
ETF constituents · market dataInstitutional 13F-reported holdings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31 list four holders totaling "$5.4M", with three new positions and a quarter-over-quarter reported value change of 261.1%.
13F holdings · 4 filers · as of 2026-03-31Reads recent headlines that are genuinely about this company, ignoring rating chatter and market-wide stories. Findings argue in the debate but never move the sentiment score.
A headline framed recent MDLZ price movement as driving institutional trading-system responses.
News · news.stocktradersdaily.com · 2026-09-01Coverage highlighted fresh margin pressure and rising costs at Mondelez, linking those pressures to sector conditions and cocoa-cost management.
News · kalkinemedia.com · 2026-09-01Reads parsed Forms 3/4/5 — who bought or sold, at what size, and whether a 10b5-1 plan was involved. Flags clustered open-market officer buying; treats plan sales as routine and never counts a fund or 10%-holder as an officer.
Dirk Van de Put (Chief Executive Officer) is reported as selling 133,580 shares for "$8.6M" on 19 August 2026, and the filing states a 10b5-1 plan was involved.
Form 4 · Van de Put Dirk (Chief Executive Officer) · $5.6M code M · 2026-08-19The same filing reports an entry labelled "code M" for Dirk Van de Put (Chief Executive Officer) on 19 August 2026 for 133,580 shares valued at "$5.6M", with the filing stating a 10b5-1 plan.
Form 4 · Van de Put Dirk (Chief Executive Officer) · $5.6M code M · 2026-08-19Reads the implied-expectations math built from the company's own filings (the growth rate today's price would justify, and the multiples beside it) and argues whether the market's bar looks high or low for this business. Never turns the math into a target.
The model-derived implied free cash flow (FCF) growth rate that today's price would justify is 16.79% per year.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closePrice to trailing-12-month free cash flow (P/FCF) is 27.37.
Valuation inputs · SEC XBRL + stored EOD closeDebate and risk review
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The SEC-backed quarterly filings show consistent operational improvement: year-over-year growth in revenue (+8.3% Q1), gross profit and a clear gross-margin expansion (about 26.1% to 27.8%), accompanied by higher operating income and net income for the comparable quarters. Share count has declined meaningfully between reported dates, supporting that earnings and cashflow per-share metrics may be benefiting from lower share dilution. Market signals complement the fundamental picture: medium-term momentum is modestly positive and income metrics (dividend yield and dividend growth) rank well in the universe, while multiple broker notes in the provided consensus are categorized as buy. Against the bear points, the CEO selling is documented as executed under a 10b5-1 plan in the Form 4, repurchase cash outflow was zero in the single compared quarter but overall shares outstanding fell over the reported interval, and institutional/ETF holdings and new 13F positions indicate fresh buyer interest. Overall, the claims together provide reasonably strong accounting- and market-signal evidence of operational and shareholder-ownership improvements, while the negative points rely more on single-quarter repurchase timing, valuation multiples, elevated short-term volatility, or filings with limited parse metadata.
Chair's verdict, claim by claim
Fragility · computed, not argued
balanced0.33
33 surviving claims rest on 15 distinct sources; the heaviest analyst carries 18% of them, and 98% of what the desk raised survived the debate.
The surviving set is moderately broad (15 distinct sources) which supports cross-checked evidence, but 33 claims from that base plus a single analyst carrying 18% of the weight indicates some concentration of interpretation. The very high debate survival rate (98%) suggests few claims were overturned during review, which can mean the read is stable but also that challenge was limited — treat the synthesis as informational and relatively robust on facts, but fragile where interpretation depends on the heavier contributors or on unexamined filings.
Disconfirming evidence · base rates · falsifiers
Context
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16 filings· 1 cited
SEC XBRL filings
Quarterly figures as filed with the SEC, read straight from EDGAR's structured data — not retyped or estimated.
Read by Mercer+0.8 to the score
1 document
SEC filing documents
The filings themselves, including the year-over-year comparison of Item 1A risk factors.
Read by Oakes+0.0 to the score
1 signal set
Moneyta signal set
Computed from our own end-of-day price history and ranked against the whole research universe. No AI involved.
Read by Nash−0.5 to the score
3 holdings records· 2 cited
Fund holdings
Which funds hold this name and at what weight, plus insider Form 4 filings.
Read by Ellis+0.8 to the score
8 headlines· 2 cited
News coverage
Recent headlines about this company, rating chatter excluded and nothing published after the report date.
Read by Yatesnothing survived
1 filing
Insider filings
Parsed Forms 3/4/5 from EDGAR: named insiders, share counts, prices, and 10b5-1 plan state — stated and inferred flags kept apart.
Read by Talbot−1.0 to the score
1 computation
Valuation inputs
TTM cash-flow figures from the company's own XBRL filings, priced with the stored closing price. Implied growth and multiples only; no fair-value dollar figure reaches the desk, by design.
Read by Archercontext only
1 record· 0 cited
Company profile
Sector, industry and company details.
1 record· 0 cited
Analyst consensus
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