Head-To-Head Survey: Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:IPST) vs. Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM)

Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) and Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:IPST) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their risk, earnings, profitability, dividends, valuation, analyst recommendations and institutional ownership.

Profitability

This table compares Boston Beer and Heritage Distilling’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Boston Beer	4.38%	12.29%	8.93%
Heritage Distilling	2,132.99%	-13.65%	-10.11%

Institutional & Insider Ownership

81.1% of Boston Beer shares are held by institutional investors. 26.1% of Boston Beer shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 13.2% of Heritage Distilling shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock is poised for long-term growth.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of current ratings and recommmendations for Boston Beer and Heritage Distilling, as reported by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Boston Beer	2	10	1	0	1.92
Heritage Distilling	1	0	0	0	1.00

Boston Beer presently has a consensus target price of $247.28, indicating a potential upside of 19.63%. Given Boston Beer’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Heritage Distilling.

Risk & Volatility

Boston Beer has a beta of 1.04, meaning that its stock price is 4% more volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Heritage Distilling has a beta of 6.04, meaning that its stock price is 504% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Boston Beer and Heritage Distilling”s top-line revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Boston Beer	$2.14 billion	1.03	$59.69 million	$8.48	24.38
Heritage Distilling	$8.40 million	1.93	$710,000.00	($22.15)	-0.08

Boston Beer has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Distilling. Heritage Distilling is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Boston Beer, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Boston Beer beats Heritage Distilling on 11 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Boston Beer

The Boston Beer Company, Inc produces and sells alcohol beverages primarily in the United States. The company's flagship beer is Samuel Adams Boston Lager. It offers various beers, hard ciders, flavored malt beverages, and hard seltzers under the Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, Angel City, and Coney Island brand names. The company 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 e-commerce retail outlets. It sells its products in Canada, Europe, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, the Caribbean, the Pacific Rim, Mexico, and Central and South America. The Boston Beer Company, Inc. was founded in 1984 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

About Heritage Distilling

Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is a craft distiller of premium brands, including whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and ready-to-drink canned cocktails. Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is based in GIG HARBOR, Wash.