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Boston Beer Co Inc

Consumer Defensive · Beverages - Brewers

$198.47

+0.13%

Close on Oct 29, 2026

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Quality

58

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Quality research reads 58 of 100, a middle-of-the-universe reading. The measurements behind it are mixed.

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Fundamental Momentum

Deteriorating

11

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Fundamental Momentum research reads 11 of 100. Stored measurements classify recent reported fundamentals as deteriorating. This describes reported financial change already disclosed, with no forward-looking claim.

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Capital Returns

Strong

80

of 100 · stored research reading

Stored Capital Returns research reads 80 of 100, recorded as strong. No dividend is recorded for this company, so the reading rests on buybacks and dilution control. Share count has been reduced at about 3.6% a year in the stored window.

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What this company does

The Boston Beer Company, Inc. and certain subsidiaries (the "Company") are engaged in the business of selling alcohol beverages throughout the United States and in selected international markets, under the trade names "The Boston Beer Company ", "Twisted Tea Brewing Company ", "Hard Seltzer Beverage Company", "Angry Orchard Cider Company", "Dogfish Head Craft Brewery", "Dogfish Head Distilling Co.", "Angel City Brewing Company", "Coney Island Brewing Company", "Green Rebel Brewing Co.", "TeaPot Worldwide", "Sun Cruiser Beverage Co.","American Fermentation Company LLC", and "Sinless Spirits Company".

The Company produces alcohol beverages, including flavored malt beverages, hard seltzer, beer, hard cider, spirits based ready to drink beverages ("spirits RTDs") and distilled spirits at Company-owned breweries and its cidery and under contract arrangements at other production facilities. The four primary Company-owned breweries are focused on production and research and development, including breweries located in Boston, Massachusetts (the "Boston Brewery"), Cincinnati, Ohio (the "Cincinnati Brewery"), Milton, Delaware (the "Milton Brewery") and Breinigsville, Pennsylvania (the "Pennsylvania Brewery"). These breweries, with the exception of the Pennsylvania Brewery, have tap rooms for retail sales on site.

The Company also operates smaller local breweries that are mainly focused on brewing and packaging beers for retail sales on site at tap rooms and gift shops, restaurant activities and developing innovative and traditional beers. These two ongoing local breweries are located in Boston, Massachusetts (the "Samuel Adams Boston Downtown Tap Room") and Rehoboth, Delaware ("Dogfish Head Brewings and Eats"). The Company announced it will close its local brewery in Los Angeles, California (the "Angel City Brewery") effective April 30, 2026.

In addition, the Company owns an apple orchard and cidery located in Walden, New York (the "Orchard" and "Cidery"), a restaurant in Rehoboth, Delaware ("Chesapeake & Maine") and a boutique inn in Lewes, Delaware (the "Dogfish Inn").

Quoted from the business section of this company’s 10-K filed February 24, 2026. Read the filing

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