Boston Beer Company Inc vs Yum! Brands, Inc. — how do they compare? Boston Beer Company Inc trades at $170.75 (market cap $1.88B), while Yum! Brands, Inc. trades at $148 (market cap $40.62B). The key difference: Yum! Brands, Inc. is far larger — about 21.6× Boston Beer Company Inc's market cap, and Yum! Brands, Inc. pays a 2.04% dividend while Boston Beer Company Inc pays none. Which is the better fit depends on your goals.
| SAM | YUM | |
|---|---|---|
Market Cap | $1.88B | $40.62B |
Sector | Consumer Staples | Consumer Cyclical |
52-Week High | $260.05 | $168.16 |
52-Week Low | $161.08 | $138.21 |
Enterprise Value | $1.75B | $51.88B |
Dividend Yield | — | 2.04% |
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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 →Yum Brands is a U.S.-based restaurant operator featuring a portfolio of four brands: KFC (26,930 global units), Pizza Hut (18,380 units), Taco Bell (7,790 units), and The Habit Burger (310 units) at year-end 2021. With $58 billion in 2021 systemwide sales, the firm is the second-largest restaurant company in the world, behind McDonald's ($112.5 billion) but ahead of Restaurant Brands International ($36 billion) and Starbucks ($25 billion). Yum is 98% franchised, with the largest franchisee, Yum China, created via a 2016 spinoff transaction (after which Yum China agreed to pay 3% royalties to Yum Brands in perpetuity). Yum is the newest evolution of Tricon Brands, formerly a division of PepsiCo, and generates the bulk of its revenue from franchise royalties and marketing contributions.
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