Zevia PBC (NYSE:ZVIA) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) Head-To-Head Analysis

Zevia PBC (NYSE:ZVIA) and Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM) are both small-cap consumer staples companies, but which is the superior business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, analyst recommendations, valuation, dividends, risk, profitability and earnings.

Volatility and Risk

Zevia PBC has a beta of 0.93, indicating that its share price is 7% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boston Beer has a beta of 0.82, indicating that its share price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Analyst Ratings

This is a summary of current ratings and price targets for Zevia PBC and Boston Beer, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Zevia PBC	1	1	2	0	2.25
Boston Beer	2	9	1	0	1.92

Zevia PBC presently has a consensus price target of $4.50, indicating a potential upside of 261.45%. Boston Beer has a consensus price target of $205.09, indicating a potential upside of 13.54%. Given Zevia PBC’s stronger consensus rating and higher probable upside, equities research analysts clearly believe Zevia PBC is more favorable than Boston Beer.

Earnings and Valuation

This table compares Zevia PBC and Boston Beer”s gross revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Zevia PBC	$161.26 million	0.60	-$9.92 million	($0.13)	-9.58
Boston Beer	$2.09 billion	0.90	$108.47 million	($6.79)	-26.60

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

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Zevia PBC	-5.34%	-16.92%	-9.56%
Boston Beer	-3.42%	9.99%	6.48%

Insider and Institutional Ownership

53.2% of Zevia PBC shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 81.1% of Boston Beer shares are held by institutional investors. 7.7% of Zevia PBC shares are held by company insiders. Comparatively, 27.4% of Boston Beer shares are held by company insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, large money managers and hedge funds believe a company will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Boston Beer beats Zevia PBC on 8 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Zevia PBC

Zevia PBC, a beverage company, develops, markets, sells, and distributes various carbonated beverages in the United States and Canada. It offers soda, energy drinks, organic tea, and kidz drinks. The company offers its products through a network of food, drug, warehouse club, mass, natural, convenience, and e-commerce channels, as well as grocery distributors and natural product stores and specialty outlets. It provides its products under the Zevia brand name. The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Encino, California.

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.