Financial Survey: Aristocrat Group (OTCMKTS:ASCC) vs. Boston Beer (NYSE:SAM)

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

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Aristocrat Group and Boston Beer, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Aristocrat Group	0	0	0	0	0.00
Boston Beer	1	10	2	0	2.08

Boston Beer has a consensus price target of $258.09, suggesting a potential upside of 15.97%. Given Boston Beer’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Boston Beer is more favorable than Aristocrat Group.

Risk & Volatility

Aristocrat Group has a beta of 0.68, meaning that its stock price is 32% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Boston Beer has a beta of 0.82, meaning that its stock price is 18% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

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

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Aristocrat Group	N/A	N/A	N/A
Boston Beer	3.65%	15.15%	11.02%

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Aristocrat Group and Boston Beer”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Aristocrat Group	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Boston Beer	$2.14 billion	1.16	$59.69 million	$7.09	31.39

Boston Beer has higher revenue and earnings than Aristocrat Group.

Institutional & Insider Ownership

81.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by institutional investors. 26.1% of Boston Beer shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that endowments, hedge funds and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Summary

Boston Beer beats Aristocrat Group on 10 of the 10 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Aristocrat Group

Aristocrat Group Corp. through its subsidiary, Top Shelf Distributing, LLC, focuses on developing distilled spirits line of business. The company markets and sells RWB Ultra Premium Handcrafted Vodka to retailers in North America. Aristocrat Group Corp. was founded in 2011 and is based in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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.