Ryanair Holdings plc vs Boston Beer Company Inc — how do they compare? Ryanair Holdings plc trades at $58.99 (market cap $29.31B), while Boston Beer Company Inc trades at $170.75 (market cap $1.88B). The key difference: Ryanair Holdings plc is far larger — about 15.6× Boston Beer Company Inc's market cap, and Ryanair Holdings plc pays a 1.68% dividend while Boston Beer Company Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| RYAAY | SAM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $29.31B | $1.88B |
Sector | Industrials | Consumer Staples |
52-Week High | $73.82 | $260.05 |
52-Week Low | $53.24 | $161.08 |
Enterprise Value | $26.33B | $1.75B |
Dividend Yield | 1.68% | — |
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Ryanair is the leading airline group by passenger numbers in Europe. The company employs a low-cost no-frills model to offer low fares to leisure customers on short-haul intra-European routes. In 2020, the most recent pre-pandemic fiscal year, the company carried 149 million passengers, utilizing a fleet of 467 Boeing 737 aircraft across its 1,800 routes. To keep costs low the company serves predominantly lower-cost secondary airports. The company generated sales of EUR 8.5 billion in fiscal 2020.
Read more on RYAAY →Boston Beer is a leader in U.S. high-end malt beverages and adjacent categories, with strong positions in craft beer, hard cider, and hard seltzer. The firm sells an array of flavor variants and package sizes, predominantly centered around four priority brands: Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, Twisted Tea, and Truly Hard Seltzer. Its drinks are produced in both company-owned breweries as well as through third-party contract arrangements, and while the company primarily goes to market through independent wholesalers (as mandated by law), it operates a fairly large salesforce to induce demand across the value chain (distributors, retailers, and drinkers). The preponderance of revenue is generated domestically.
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