Diageo expands whisky production

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DIAGEO PLC ADR $198 is a hold. The company (New York symbol DEO; Conservative Growth Portfolio, Consumer sector; ADRs outstanding: 577.6 million; Market cap: $114.4 billion; Price-to-sales ratio: 5.7; Dividend yield: 2.0%; TSINetwork Rating: Above Average; www.diageo.com) plans to build a new distillery in St. Clair, Ontario, that will make Crown Royal Canadian whisky. This will help Diageo meet growing demand for Canadian whisky: in the six months ended December 31, 2021, sales of Crown Royal grew 12% from a year earlier. This new plant will cost $245 million (Canadian) and should begin operating in 2025. The stock continues to rebound from its March 2020 low of $101. However, it now trades at a somewhat high 28.3 times the $7.00 per ADR that Diageo will probably earn in fiscal 2022. Diageo is a hold. hold…