Head to Head Review: Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:IPST) and Molson Coors Beverage (NYSE:TAP)

Heritage Distilling (NASDAQ:IPST) and Molson Coors Beverage (NYSE:TAP) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will contrast the two companies based on the strength of their dividends, analyst recommendations, institutional ownership, valuation, earnings, profitability and risk.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of recent ratings and recommmendations for Heritage Distilling and Molson Coors Beverage, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Heritage Distilling	1	0	0	0	1.00
Molson Coors Beverage	2	9	6	0	2.24

Molson Coors Beverage has a consensus price target of $54.56, indicating a potential upside of 16.29%. Given Molson Coors Beverage’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, analysts plainly believe Molson Coors Beverage is more favorable than Heritage Distilling.

Insider and Institutional Ownership

78.5% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are owned by institutional investors. 13.2% of Heritage Distilling shares are owned by insiders. Comparatively, 2.7% of Molson Coors Beverage shares are owned by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, endowments and large money managers believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Profitability

This table compares Heritage Distilling and Molson Coors Beverage’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Heritage Distilling	-254.24%	N/A	-65.59%
Molson Coors Beverage	7.81%	8.61%	4.39%

Earnings & Valuation

This table compares Heritage Distilling and Molson Coors Beverage”s top-line revenue, earnings per share and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Heritage Distilling	$8.40 million	2.31	$710,000.00	($182.60)	-0.08
Molson Coors Beverage	$11.21 billion	0.83	$1.12 billion	($10.68)	-4.39

Molson Coors Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Heritage Distilling. Molson Coors Beverage is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than Heritage Distilling, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Summary

Molson Coors Beverage beats Heritage Distilling on 11 of the 13 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Heritage Distilling

Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is a craft distiller of premium brands, including whiskeys, vodkas, gins, rums and ready-to-drink canned cocktails. Heritage Distilling Holding Company Inc. is based in GIG HARBOR, Wash.

About Molson Coors Beverage

Molson Coors Beverage Company manufactures, markets, and sells beer and other malt beverage products under various brands in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Asia Pacific. The company offers flavored malt beverages including hard seltzers, craft, spirits and energy, and ready to drink beverages. It provides its products under Aspall Cider, Blue Moon, Coors Original, Five Trail, Hop Valley brands, Leinenkugel’s, Madri, Miller Genuine Draft, Molson Ultra, Sharp’s, Staropramen, and Vizzy Hard Seltzer above premier brands; Bergenbier, Borsodi, Carling, Coors Banquet, Coors Light, Jelen, Kamenitza, Miller Lite, Molson Canadian, and Niksicko, Ozujsko under the premium brands; and Branik, Icehouse, Keystone, Miller High Life, Milwaukee’s Best, and Steel Reserve under the economy brands. The company was formerly known as Molson Coors Brewing Company and changed its name to Molson Coors Beverage Company in January 2020. Molson Coors Beverage Company was founded in 1774 and is based in Golden, Colorado.