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Beer Business Softness Deepens: Can Molson Coors Reignite Core Brands?
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Key Takeaways
TAP faces deeper beer volume declines in 2025, pressuring core brands like Coors Light and Miller Lite.
Molson Coors boosts marketing, new campaigns and sports and music partnerships to revive flagship labels.
TAP leans on Coors Banquet momentum and strengthens economy brands through pricing and regional activation.
Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP - Free Report) is navigating one of the most challenging beer environments in recent years, as industry volume declines continue to weigh on overall performance. In 2025, U.S. beer consumption softened more sharply than historical trends, pressured by macro factors such as inflation, tariffs and strain on lower-income consumers — segments that disproportionately drive mainstream beer purchases. Against this backdrop, Molson Coors’ core brands, including Coors Light and Miller Lite, have faced heightened competitive pressure and shifting consumer behavior, with fewer buyers and reduced spending per trip.
To counter these headwinds, Molson Coors is taking a renewed, more aggressive approach to revitalize its core portfolio. The company is increasing marketing investment in flagship brands, launching fresh campaigns and deepening partnerships in high-visibility arenas like sports and music. The strategy also includes sharpening execution in local markets, recognizing that different regions respond differently to pricing, brand messaging and promotional activity. Additionally, TAP is leaning into the momentum of Coors Banquet, a standout performer with strong brand resonance, while working to narrow its distribution gap with Coors Light.
Molson Coors is rebalancing its portfolio with a stronger focus on economy brands that remain critical in a strained consumer environment. By improving discipline around pricing, innovation and regional activation for brands like Miller High Life and Keystone Light, the company aims to shore up share in the segments where much of the recent softness has originated.
Overall, while the beer slowdown presents real challenges, Molson Coors’ combination of targeted investment, commercial realignment and renewed attention to its core and economy offerings sets the stage for stabilization, and potentially a return to growth, once macro pressures ease.
TAP’s Zacks Rank & Share Price Performance
Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have lost 19.5% in the past six months, underperforming the Zacks Beverages - Soft Drinks industry’s decline of 11.1% and the broader Consumer Staples sector’s fall of 7.2%.
TAP Stock's Six-Month Performance
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Is TAP Stock a Value Play?
Molson Coors shares are currently trading at a forward 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 8.22X, at a discount compared with the industry’s average of 14.52X. The stock is undervalued compared with its industry peers, offering compelling value to investors looking for exposure to the consumer staple sector.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Chefs' Warehouse’s current financial-year earnings and revenues implies growth of 29.3% and 8.1%, respectively, from the year-ago actuals. CHEF delivered a trailing four-quarter average earnings surprise of 14.7%.
Ambev (ABEV - Free Report) is engaged in producing, distributing and selling beer, carbonated soft drinks and other non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products in many countries across the Americas. ABEV currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Ambev’s current financial-year sales indicates year-over-year growth of 1.5%, while the EPS estimate suggests no change from the year-ago reported number. ABEV delivered a trailing four-quarter negative earnings surprise of 4.2%, on average.
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP - Free Report) is one of the leading global food and beverage companies. It currently has a Zacks Rank of 2.
PepsiCo delivered a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 1%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for PEP’s current financial-year sales indicates growth of 1.8% from the year-ago reported number, while that for EPS suggests a 0.6% decline.
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Beer Business Softness Deepens: Can Molson Coors Reignite Core Brands?
Key Takeaways
Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP - Free Report) is navigating one of the most challenging beer environments in recent years, as industry volume declines continue to weigh on overall performance. In 2025, U.S. beer consumption softened more sharply than historical trends, pressured by macro factors such as inflation, tariffs and strain on lower-income consumers — segments that disproportionately drive mainstream beer purchases. Against this backdrop, Molson Coors’ core brands, including Coors Light and Miller Lite, have faced heightened competitive pressure and shifting consumer behavior, with fewer buyers and reduced spending per trip.
To counter these headwinds, Molson Coors is taking a renewed, more aggressive approach to revitalize its core portfolio. The company is increasing marketing investment in flagship brands, launching fresh campaigns and deepening partnerships in high-visibility arenas like sports and music. The strategy also includes sharpening execution in local markets, recognizing that different regions respond differently to pricing, brand messaging and promotional activity. Additionally, TAP is leaning into the momentum of Coors Banquet, a standout performer with strong brand resonance, while working to narrow its distribution gap with Coors Light.
Molson Coors is rebalancing its portfolio with a stronger focus on economy brands that remain critical in a strained consumer environment. By improving discipline around pricing, innovation and regional activation for brands like Miller High Life and Keystone Light, the company aims to shore up share in the segments where much of the recent softness has originated.
Overall, while the beer slowdown presents real challenges, Molson Coors’ combination of targeted investment, commercial realignment and renewed attention to its core and economy offerings sets the stage for stabilization, and potentially a return to growth, once macro pressures ease.
TAP’s Zacks Rank & Share Price Performance
Shares of this Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) company have lost 19.5% in the past six months, underperforming the Zacks Beverages - Soft Drinks industry’s decline of 11.1% and the broader Consumer Staples sector’s fall of 7.2%.
TAP Stock's Six-Month Performance
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Is TAP Stock a Value Play?
Molson Coors shares are currently trading at a forward 12-month price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple of 8.22X, at a discount compared with the industry’s average of 14.52X. The stock is undervalued compared with its industry peers, offering compelling value to investors looking for exposure to the consumer staple sector.
TAP P/E Ratio (Forward 12 Months)
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Stocks to Consider
Chefs' Warehouse Holdings, LLC (CHEF - Free Report) is a distributor of specialty food products. It currently sports a Zacks Rank of 1 (Strong Buy). You can see the complete list of today’s Zacks #1 Rank stocks here.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Chefs' Warehouse’s current financial-year earnings and revenues implies growth of 29.3% and 8.1%, respectively, from the year-ago actuals. CHEF delivered a trailing four-quarter average earnings surprise of 14.7%.
Ambev (ABEV - Free Report) is engaged in producing, distributing and selling beer, carbonated soft drinks and other non-alcoholic and non-carbonated products in many countries across the Americas. ABEV currently carries a Zacks Rank #2 (Buy).
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for Ambev’s current financial-year sales indicates year-over-year growth of 1.5%, while the EPS estimate suggests no change from the year-ago reported number. ABEV delivered a trailing four-quarter negative earnings surprise of 4.2%, on average.
PepsiCo Inc. (PEP - Free Report) is one of the leading global food and beverage companies. It currently has a Zacks Rank of 2.
PepsiCo delivered a trailing four-quarter earnings surprise of 1%, on average. The Zacks Consensus Estimate for PEP’s current financial-year sales indicates growth of 1.8% from the year-ago reported number, while that for EPS suggests a 0.6% decline.