Boston Beer Company Inc vs J M Smucker Co — how do they compare? Boston Beer Company Inc trades at $170.75 (market cap $1.88B), while J M Smucker Co trades at $112.69 (market cap $11.97B). The key difference: J M Smucker Co is far larger — about 6.4× Boston Beer Company Inc's market cap, and J M Smucker Co pays a 3.93% dividend while Boston Beer Company Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAM | SJM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $1.88B | $11.97B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Consumer Staples |
52-Week High | $260.05 | $117.05 |
52-Week Low | $161.08 | $89.53 |
Enterprise Value | $1.75B | $19.00B |
Dividend Yield | — | 3.93% |
Trailing returns across standard periods
Latest headlines on both assets
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.
Read more on SAM →J.M. Smucker is a packaged food company that primarily operates in the U.S. retail channel (87% of fiscal 2022 revenue), but also in U.S. food-service (7%), and international (6%). Its largest segment is pet food and treats (36% of 2022 revenue), with popular brands such as Milk-Bone, Meow Mix, 9Lives, Kibbles 'n Bits, Nature's Recipe, and Rachael Ray Nutrish. Its second-largest category is coffee (35% across channels) with the number-two brand Folgers and number-six Dunkin'. Other large categories are peanut butter (10%), with number-one Jif, fruit spreads (5%) with number-one Smucker's, and frozen hand-held foods (6%) with number-one Uncrustables.
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