About Anheuser-Busch InBev SA
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV engages in the production, distribution, and sale of beer, alcoholic beverages, and soft drinks worldwide. It offers a portfolio of approximately 500 beer brands, which primarily include Budweiser, Corona, and Stella Artois; Beck's, Hoegaarden, Leffe, and Michelob Ultra; and Aguila, Antarctica, Bud Light, Brahma, Cass, Castle, Castle Lite, Cristal, Harbin, Jupiler, Modelo Especial, Quilmes, Victoria, Sedrin, and Skol brands.
The company was founded in 1366 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV is a subsidiary of AB InBev NV/SA.
BUD operates in the Manufacturing | Beer & Liquor | approximately 166,600 employees | led by CEO Michel D. Doukeris.
$87.0 billion 11.7x P/E 1.4x P/B 4.6x EV/EBITDA 8.2% ROE 0.7% rev. growth 1.7% yield
Our six-factor quantitative model, which ranks 7,333 publicly traded U.S. companies on quality, value, momentum, investment efficiency, financial stability, and short interest positioning, assigns Anheuser-Busch InBev SA a Strong Buy rating with a composite score of 76/100 — placing it at rank #6 in the entire universe.
What makes this rating noteworthy is not any single exceptional factor, but the breadth of strength across the profile. Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's dominant factor is value at 97/100, followed closely by stability at 95/100. Even the weakest factor, investment efficiency at 56/100, sits comfortably above average.
At $87.0 billion, Anheuser-Busch InBev SA operates in the Manufacturing sector where it ranks 3rd out of 50 stocks — the 94th percentile among its peers. The factor profile suggests the market may be underpricing the risk-reward equation here.
Quality Analysis
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's quality score of 84/100 places it among the top profitability performers in the market. The quality factor evaluates margins, return on equity, return on assets, and earnings consistency — the fundamental building blocks of a durable business.
Return on equity of 8.2% exceeds the sector median of -2.0%. Gross margins of 55.3% reflect strong pricing power and competitive moats. Operating margins of 25.9% sit above the 3.0% sector average.
Net margins of 12.4% show the company is profitable, though not with exceptional efficiency.
Valuation Assessment
A value score of 97/100 puts BUD in the top 3 percent of all stocks on cheapness — suggesting the market is significantly underpricing the company's fundamentals. Key valuation metrics include a P/E ratio of 11.7x, an EV/EBITDA of 4.6x, a price-to-book of 1.4x, a price-to-sales of 1.5x. Deep value scores like this historically correlate with above-average forward returns, though they can also reflect legitimate concerns about business quality that the value factor does not capture.
Momentum & Timing
A momentum score of 67/100 shows BUD is trending above average, with its stock price outperforming the majority of the market. This is not explosive, meme-stock-style momentum — it is the gradual, fundamental-driven kind that tends to persist.
Revenue growth of 0.7% provides a moderate fundamental underpinning. A beta of 0.43 means Anheuser-Busch InBev SA moves with less volatility than the market, which can be attractive for risk-conscious investors.
Our entry timing model currently signals Favorable, which warrants caution despite the price trend.
Risk Factors
No investment comes without risks, and honest analysis requires flagging them clearly:
- Model limitations. Quantitative models measure what is measurable — financial ratios, price trends, leverage — but cannot capture qualitative factors like management quality, competitive positioning, or pending litigation. This analysis should be supplemented with fundamental due diligence.
- Market regime risk. Factor-based strategies perform differently across market regimes. The current factor exposures that support Anheuser-Busch InBev SA's rating may become headwinds if the macro environment shifts — for example, if interest rates move sharply or if sector rotation accelerates.
Bottom Line
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA earns a Strong Buy rating with a composite score of 76/100 and 5 out of 5 stars, ranking #6 out of 7,333 stocks. The quantitative profile is among the strongest in the market — not because of any single factor, but because of consistent strength across multiple dimensions.
Stocks with this multi-factor profile have historically delivered above-average risk-adjusted returns over three to twelve month horizons. Whether that pattern holds for BUD specifically is, of course, uncertain — quantitative models identify probabilities, not certainties.
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