Boston Beer Company, Inc. (SAM)
The Boston Beer Company, Inc. produces and sells alcoholic beverages primarily in the United States. Its flagship beer is Samuel Adams Boston Lager.
[You must be registered and logged in to see this image.]The company sells approximately 60 beers under the Samuel Adams and the Sam Adams brands; 20 hard cider beverages under the Angry Orchard brand; 13 flavored malt beverages under the Twisted Tea brand; and 4 hard seltzer beverages under the Truly Spiked & Sparkling brand name, as well as approximately 40 beers under the A&S Brewing trade name.
Long Term Trend
The long term trend of Boston Beer Company is DOWN indicating that SAM has experienced a DOWN trend for at least the past 180 trading days. Long term trends are key to understanding the starting point to the path of least resistance of a stocks price trend. The expected future trend bias is always strongest with the current trend.
Short Term Trend
The short term trend of Boston Beer Company is UP, SAM has been undergoing a short term UP UP over the past 7-10 days.
Signal
The current signal for Boston Beer Company is BUY indicating that the stock could be Advancing in its trend. The current price trend is Extreme. Stocks in extreme levels of price trend should be allowed to move out of the extreme range before a buy or sell decision should be made. As is the case for most trending momentum style stocks, much of the “reason” price action is not often known until well into the price trend. But earnings growth and management efficiency are key components to a foundation to a sustainable uptrend. We will focus on fundamental indications that can build a case for reasons why the stock should continue its current trend.
Strength Rank
Rank is the rank of the stock vs. its peers. For example a Rank of 98 means the stock is out performing 98% of its peers over a 12 month period. A rank of 2 means the stock is outperforming 2% of its peers, in other words, 98% of its peers are out performing it. 98 is good, 2 is not so good. The current quarter is 40% of the weighting, so current performance is more significant to the rank.
The current rank for Boston Beer Company is 49, this means that SAM is out performing 49%of its peers. Stocks that have a rank of 80 or better, with support of all other analyses shown here, tend to advance the trend.