Boston Beer Company Inc vs BIO-TECHNE Corp — how do they compare? Boston Beer Company Inc trades at $170.75 (market cap $1.88B), while BIO-TECHNE Corp trades at $71.63 (market cap $11.16B). The key difference: BIO-TECHNE Corp is far larger — about 5.9× Boston Beer Company Inc's market cap, and BIO-TECHNE Corp pays a 0.45% dividend while Boston Beer Company Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAM | TECH | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $1.88B | $11.16B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Health |
52-Week High | $260.05 | $72.12 |
52-Week Low | $161.08 | $43.31 |
Enterprise Value | $1.75B | $11.24B |
Dividend Yield | — | 0.45% |
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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 →Based in Minnesota, Bio-Techne is a life sciences manufacturer supplying consumables and instruments for the pharma, biotech, academic, and diagnostic markets. The company reports in two segments, protein sciences (75% of revenue), and diagnostics and genomics (25%). The protein-focused segment makes equipment and associated consumables for protein characterization and analysis and sells antibodies for research and clinical purposes. In diagnostics, Bio-Techne provides controls and calibrators for diagnostic manufacturers and has a portfolio of diagnostic oncology assays. The United States accounts for about 55% of revenue, and the firm also has operations in EMEA (20% of sales), the U.K. (5%), and APAC (15%), with the rest of the world accounting for the remaining 5%.
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