The Boston Beer Company, Inc. (SAM)

About The Boston Beer Company, Inc.

The Boston Beer Company, Inc. produces and sells alcohol beverages primarily in the United States. Its flagship beer is Samuel Adams Boston Lager. The company offers various beers, hard ciders, spirits based ready to drink beverages, distilled spirits, flavored malt beverages, and hard seltzers under the Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, and Sun Cruiser brand names. It markets and sells its products to a network wholesaler in the United States, as well as wholesalers, importers, or other agencies that in turn sell to retailers, such as grocery stores, club stores, convenience stores, liquor stores, bars, restaurants, stadiums, and other traditional and e-commerce retail outlets. It sells its products in Canada, Mexico, and internationally. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

SAM passes 1 of our 30 screens today

Each screen prints the exact criteria it used, and the circumstances in which it is wrong.

Smart money ownership

12 of the funds we track reported a position in their latest SEC 13F filing. Largest first:

• Cliff Asness, AQR CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC$150.22M · 0.1% of book
• Arrowstreet Capital, ARROWSTREET CAPITAL, LIMITED PARTNERSHIP$56.51M · 0.0% of book
• Mason Hawkins, SOUTHEASTERN ASSET MANAGEMENT INC/TN/$54.56M · 1.4% of book
• Joel Greenblatt, Gotham Asset Management, LLC$39.24M · 0.1% of book
• Israel Englander, MILLENNIUM MANAGEMENT LLC$22.26M · 0.0% of book

A word of warning on reading these figures: a 13F reports the market value of a holding, so a fund that traded nothing at all still appears to have sold when the price fell. We found 102 companies where the standard reading gives the opposite answer. Only the share count is honest.

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