The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (SAM) on Decifer

Decifer ranks SAM number 262 of 265 tracked names on durable business quality.

Why it ranks here

• It earns solid returns on the money it puts to work, around 11% and those returns have been improving and it turns most of its profit into real cash.
• Revenue is growing about 4% a year, profits grew 95% over the past year, and growth is speeding up, not slowing down.
• It keeps a high share of every sale as profit, and that has stayed steady over the years, a sign of real pricing power, with profitability widening as it grows.
• It is riding an active market tailwind and has the balance sheet to fund its growth.
• It is not watering down its owners with new shares and it returns cash to shareholders.
• Profit growth of 95% and widening margins cannot overcome anemic 4% revenue growth and failing momentum at 1 out of 35, with no funded role to help.

The current read

The evidence on SAM lines up on the supportive side: the intelligence feed flags this name as connected to what is moving markets now. The independent signals we track are telling the same story.

Themes

• Functional & Energy Beverages: Consumers are moving spend from traditional sodas toward energy drinks and functional beverages, a category growing far faster than legacy CSDs.

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