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KO vs SAM

Side-by-side comparison of Coca-Cola Company (KO) and Boston Beer Company Inc. (SAM): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both KO and SAM operate in Beverages (Production/Distribution) (Consumer Staples), so they compete in similar markets.
  • KO is the larger of the two at $262.79B, about 50.2x SAM ($5.23B).
  • Over the past year, KO is up 6.8% and SAM is down 1.2% - KO leads by 8.0 points.
  • KO has been more active in the news (5 items in the past 4 weeks vs 4 for SAM).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceKO+6.82%SAM-1.18%
2025-04-28+0.00%2026-04-24
MetricKOSAM
Company
Coca-Cola Company
Boston Beer Company Inc.
Price
$76.62+0.41%
$235.31-1.98%
Market cap
$262.79B
$5.23B
1M return
+1.79%
+5.04%
1Y return
+6.82%
-1.18%
Industry
Beverages (Production/Distribution)
Beverages (Production/Distribution)
Exchange
NYSE
NYSE
IPO
News (4w)
5
4
Recent ratings
25
25
KO

Coca-Cola Company

The Coca-Cola Company, a beverage company, manufactures, markets, and sells various nonalcoholic beverages worldwide. The company provides sparkling soft drinks; water, enhanced water, and sports drinks; juice, dairy, and plant–based beverages; tea and coffee; and energy drinks. It also offers beverage concentrates and syrups, as well as fountain syrups to fountain retailers, such as restaurants and convenience stores. The company sells its products under the Coca-Cola, Diet Coke/Coca-Cola Light, Coca-Cola Zero Sugar, Fanta, Fresca, Schweppes, Sprite, Thums Up, Aquarius, Ciel, Dasani, glacéau smartwater, glacéau vitaminwater, Ice Dew, I LOHAS, Powerade, Topo Chico, AdeS, Del Valle, fairlife, innocent, Minute Maid, Minute Maid Pulpy, Simply, Ayataka, Costa, dogadan, FUZE TEA, Georgia, Gold Peak, HONEST TEA, and Kochakaden brands. It operates through a network of independent bottling partners, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers, as well as through bottling and distribution operators. The company was founded in 1886 and is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia.

SAM

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.