Topic: Growth Stocks

MOLSON COORS BREWING CO. $43 – New York symbol TAP

MOLSON COORS BREWING CO. $43 (New York symbol TAP; Aggressive Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; Shares outstanding: 180.6 million; Market cap: $7.8 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 2.2; Dividend yield: 3.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Average; www.molsoncoors.com) earned $701.5 million, or $3.76 a share, in 2011. That’s up 5.2% from $666.9 million, or $3.56 a share, in 2010.

Sales rose 8.0%, to $3.5 billion from $3.3 billion; the company increased its selling prices in response to rising ingredient costs. That helped it offset a 0.7% drop in beer volume.

The company continues to realize big savings from MillerCoors, its joint venture in the U.S. with rival brewer SABMiller. Combined with savings from its own restructuring plan, Molson Coors cut its costs by $106.6 million in 2011.

Molson Coors is a buy.

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