diff --git a/pandas/core/generic.py b/pandas/core/generic.py
index 140f456926763..e103f0e938a76 100644
--- a/pandas/core/generic.py
+++ b/pandas/core/generic.py
@@ -10257,10 +10257,10 @@ def pct_change(
         GOOG   1769950   1500923   1371819
         APPL  30586265  40912316  41403351
 
-        >>> df.pct_change(axis='columns')
-              2016      2015      2014
-        GOOG   NaN -0.151997 -0.086016
-        APPL   NaN  0.337604  0.012002
+        >>> df.pct_change(axis='columns', periods=-1)
+                  2016      2015  2014
+        GOOG  0.179241  0.094112   NaN
+        APPL -0.252395 -0.011860   NaN
         """
         axis = self._get_axis_number(kwargs.pop("axis", self._stat_axis_name))
         if fill_method is None: