Compare · DEO vs SAM
DEO vs SAM
Side-by-side comparison of Diageo plc (DEO) and Boston Beer Company Inc. (SAM): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both DEO and SAM operate in Beverages (Production/Distribution) (Consumer Staples), so they compete in similar markets.
- DEO is the larger of the two at $46.94B, about 25.9x SAM ($1.81B).
- Over the past year, DEO is down 20.4% and SAM is down 16.1% - SAM leads by 4.4 points.
- DEO has been more active in the news (5 items in the past 4 weeks vs 1 for SAM).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- Diageo plc
- Boston Beer Company Inc.
- Price
- $84.39+1.00%
- $174.14+1.52%
- Market cap
- $46.94B
- $1.81B
- 1M return
- +6.04%
- -1.85%
- 1Y return
- -20.45%
- -16.09%
- Industry
- Beverages (Production/Distribution)
- Beverages (Production/Distribution)
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NYSE
- IPO
- News (4w)
- 5
- 1
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
Diageo plc
Diageo plc, together with its subsidiaries, produces, markets, and sells alcoholic beverages. The company offers scotch, whisky, gin, vodka, rum, ready to drink products, Irish cream liqueur, raki, liqueur, wine, tequila, Canadian whisky, American whiskey, adult beverages, cachaça, spirits, and brandy, as well as beer, including cider and non-alcoholic products. Diageo plc provides its products primarily under the Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff, Baileys, Captain Morgan, Tanqueray, and Guinness brands. The company also offers its products under the Crown Royal, Yenì Raki, Shui Jing Fang, Johnnie Walker Blue Label, Bulleit Bourbon, Don Julio, Buchanan's, J?B, Old Parr, Tanqueray No. TEN, Ron Zacapa Centenario XO, Casamigos, Bundaberg, McDowell's No. 1, Ypióca, Lagavulin, The Singleton of Glen Ord, Johnnie Walker Gold Label Reserve, Windsor, Black&White, Cîroc, Ketel One vodka, and Talisker brands. It has operations in North America, Europe, Turkey, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. The company was incorporated in 1886 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Boston Beer Company Inc.
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, and hard seltzers under the Samuel Adams, Twisted Tea, Truly Hard Seltzer, Angry Orchard, Dogfish Head, Angel City, Coney Island, Concrete Beach brand names. The company markets and sells its products to a network of approximately 400 wholesalers in the United States, as well as international 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 retail outlets. It also sells in 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.
Latest DEO
- SMIRNOFF ICE KEEPS AMERICA'S 250TH CELEBRATION GOING WITH HOT DOG-FUELED GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ ATTEMPTS
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Diageo plc
- CROWN ROYAL INTRODUCES "BRING IT" -- A NEW BRAND PLATFORM INVITING EVERYONE TO SHARE WHAT BRINGS US ALL TOGETHER
- SEC Form 11-K filed by Diageo plc
- SEC Form 11-K filed by Diageo plc
- Diageo plc upgraded by TD Cowen with a new price target
- Bulleit Goes Two Decades Deep With New 20-Year-Old Straight Rye Whiskey
- BLADE AND BOW UNVEILS A NEW LIMITED ANNUAL EXPRESSION, 12-YEAR-OLD SOLERA RESERVE
- SEC Form 6-K filed by Diageo plc
- ALEXIS ORTEGA IS CROWNED 2026 U.S. BARTENDER OF THE YEAR IN THE TALES OF THE COCKTAIL FOUNDATION PRESENTS WORLD CLASS SPONSORED BY DIAGEO NATIONAL FINALS
Latest SAM
- TWISTED TEA HARD ICED TEA INVENTS THE ONLY FAIR DIVORCE SETTLEMENT IN AMERICA
- TRULY HARD SELTZER BETS $5 MILLION THAT U.S. SOCCER WILL WIN IT ALL, AND GIVES ONE FAN THE CHANCE TO CASH IN
- SUN CRUISER AND DYLAN EFRON TEAM UP TO GET DRINKERS OUTSIDE ALL SUMMER LONG
- SAMUEL ADAMS AWARDS SOUL MEGA 2026 BREWING & BUSINESS EXPERIENCESHIP
- Dogfish Head & Rolling Stone Celebrate 250 Years of American Music with Exclusive Whiskey Collaboration
- DOGFISH HEAD DROPS THE "SECRET STASH COOLER" BECAUSE SOME COCKTAILS ARE TOO GOOD TO SHARE
- SUN CRUISER LAUNCHES CRUISER CADDIES TO SURPRISE-AND-DELIGHT FANS AT THE U.S. OPEN
- CITY OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY IS NOW "BELIEVE, USA": MAYOR EMILY B. JABBOUR JOINS TRULY HARD SELTZER AND U.S. SOCCER IN NAMING CITY THE CAPITAL OF AMERICAN SOCCER FANDOM
- Sun Cruiser and G/FORE Elevate Golf Course Style with New Limited-Edition Apparel Collection
- Boston Beer Company Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Other Events