Boston Beer Company (SAM)

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Boston Beer Company's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

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Boston Beer Company's 10 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $906 million in fiscal 2016 to $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025, up 9% a year; it rose in 6 of 9 years; the deepest fall was 6% from fiscal 2022 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 10 of 10 of those years (its annual reports).

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Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-27, Boston Beer Company's diluted share count shrank about 4.0% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 68% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 2 sales and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-11-02 (their Form 4 filings).

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Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-27, Boston Beer Company earned about 13 cents of profit for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 80 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 29 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count shrank 7.0% over the year (the filed statements).

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Boston Beer Company's standing among 42 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 50% by size; a net margin of 5.5% ranks in the top 35%; revenue growth of -2% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 25% (its annual reports).

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Boston Beer Company's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Koch, C James (Chairman, President & CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-10-28, under a month (bottom 6% of its family); the 18 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 3.8 years (bottom 18%); 14 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 18 people in charge now (bottom 12%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

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Boston Beer Company's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $223 million against no long-term debt tagged leaves 18.7% of its assets as net cash, top 6% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 11% of revenue (top 23%); a gross margin of 48.5% (top 8%) (its annual report).

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Boston Beer Company's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -2% a year over the last three filed years against 9% over all 10, slowing (bottom 11% of its family); the newest year grew -2.4% (bottom 27%); capital spending grew -15.6% a year (bottom 20%) (its annual reports). Boston Beer Company tags no split of its revenue by line in the annual report on file, so growth by line cannot be read here; research and capital spending are on the trend.

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Boston Beer Company's newest year against its own record: revenue of $2.0 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 0.5% below the $2.0 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (bottom 45% of its family); net income of $108 million against a prior three-year average of $68 million (top 17%); a net margin of 5.5% against 3.3% before (top 17%) (its annual reports).