Boston Beer Company Inc vs United Microelectronics Corp — how do they compare? Boston Beer Company Inc trades at $170.75 (market cap $1.88B), while United Microelectronics Corp trades at $21.14 (market cap $51.00B). The key difference: United Microelectronics Corp is far larger — about 27.1× Boston Beer Company Inc's market cap, and United Microelectronics Corp pays a 2.03% dividend while Boston Beer Company Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAM | UMC | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $1.88B | $51.00B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Technology |
52-Week High | $260.05 | $28.02 |
52-Week Low | $161.08 | $6.58 |
Enterprise Value | $1.75B | $48.57B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.03% |
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 →Founded in 1980, United Microelectronics is the world's third-largest dedicated chip foundry, with 7% market share in 2021, according to Gartner, after TSMC and GlobalFoundries. UMC's headquarters are in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and it operates 12 fabs in Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan and Singapore, with additional sales offices in Europe, the U.S. and South Korea. UMC features a diverse customer base including Texas Instruments, MediaTek, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx and Realtek, supplying a wide range of products applied in communications, display, memory, automotive and more. UMC employs about 20,000 people.
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