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Ambev S.A. (ABEV)

Ambev brews and sells beer, and bottles soft drinks. The filing states that on its own estimates the company is the largest brewer in Latin America by sales volume and one of the largest beer producers in the world. It produces, distributes and sells beer, carbonated soft drinks, other alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic still products directly in 11 countries across the Americas. It is the successor of Brahma, founded in 1888, and Antarctica, founded in 1885; the listed entity, Ambev S.A., was incorporated in Brazil on 8 July 2005 and its principal offices are in São Paulo. Figures are stated in Brazilian reais.

Ambev S.A.

Ambev brews and sells beer, and bottles soft drinks. The filing states that on its own estimates the company is the largest brewer in Latin America by sales volume and one of the largest beer producers in the world. It produces, distributes and sells beer, carbonated soft drinks, other alcoholic drinks and non-alcoholic still products directly in 11 countries across the Americas. It is the successor of Brahma, founded in 1888, and Antarctica, founded in 1885; the listed entity, Ambev S.A., was incorporated in Brazil on 8 July 2005 and its principal offices are in São Paulo. Figures are stated in Brazilian reais.

Four segments

Brazil holds a beer division and a non-alcoholic beverages division and was 55.6% of net sales in 2025, split 45.6% beer and 10.0% non-alcoholic. Latin America South, covering Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay and Chile, was 20.4%. Central America and the Caribbean, covering the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Guatemala and Panama, was 12.4%. Canada, which is Labatt, was 11.6%.

How much it sells

Volumes were 175,830.6 thousand hectolitres in 2025, against 181,920.5 thousand in 2024 and 183,659.0 thousand in 2023. Brazil was 70.0% of that, with beer 50.8% and non-alcoholic beverages 19.1%. Latin America South was 18.3%, Central America and the Caribbean 6.8% and Canada 4.9%.

The brands

In Brazil the beer and beyond-beer names the filing lists include Antarctica, Antarctica SubZero, Adriática, Wäls and Vinho do Zé, alongside Guaraná Antarctica and Tônica Antarctica on the soft drinks side. In Central America and the Caribbean the beers are Bucanero, Cristal, Mayabe and Cacique, with Malta Perla Negra and Malta Bucanero among the non-beer lines. In Latin America South the beers include Ducal, Baltica, Taquiña and Chicha Taquiña, and the non-beer lines run through Pepsi, Pepsi Black, 7UP, Guaraná Antarctica, Gatorade, Maltin, H2OH! and Corona Tropical. Others named across the markets are Mirinda, Orange Crush, Pony Malta and Red Bull.

The Pepsi licence

In the late 1990s Companhia Cervejaria Brahma obtained the exclusive rights to produce, sell and distribute Pepsi carbonated soft drinks throughout Brazil, and has distributed them there since. Certain subsidiaries hold separate franchise agreements for Pepsi products in Argentina, Bolivia, Uruguay, Panama and the Dominican Republic.

Selling direct, and to the trade

Three platforms sit between the brewery and the buyer. Zé Delivery is the direct-to-consumer app in Brazil: present in more than 800 cities across all 27 Brazilian states, reaching nearly 70% of the country's population, it delivered more than 66 million orders in 2025 and had over 27 million yearly active users at the year end. The filing describes what the platforms are meant to solve as late-hours availability, speed of service, reasonable prices and drinks arriving cold. TaDa is the equivalent in Latin America South; in Argentina, where it came out of merging App Bar with platforms called Siempre en Casa and Craft Society, it reached 38 cities and nearly 350 thousand orders in 2025, with orders down 38% and monthly active users down 41% year on year as the economy weighed on consumption. BEES is the business-to-business platform that the trade orders through, in use across Brazil, Central America and the Caribbean, Latin America South and Canada.

How it grew

Companhia Cervejaria Brahma began expanding across Latin America in the mid-1990s and the group has been buying assets in South America, Central America and the Caribbean since. In the early 2000s it took a 40.5% economic interest in Quinsa and joint control of it, shared temporarily with Beverages Associates Corp., which the filing says gave the company a leading presence in the beer markets of Argentina, Bolivia, Paraguay and Uruguay and set the terms for buying full control later. Old Ambev was merged into Ambev S.A. through a stock swap approved in July 2013; until then Ambev S.A. had no operations and existed as a vehicle for ABI to hold a 0.5% interest in Old Ambev.

From Ambev's annual report on Form 20-F for the year ended 31 December 2025. The filing

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Ambev S.A. files a 20-F with the SEC once a year, in Brazilian reais. In the year to 31 December 2025 it reported revenue of BRL 88,242 million ($15.8 billion at the year's average rate), down 1.4% on the year before. Its profit attributable to shareholders was BRL 15,503 million, up 7.4%, and diluted earnings per share BRL 0.99.

Ambev (ABEV) in brief

Ambev (ABEV) reported revenue of BRL 88.2 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, down 1.4% on the year before.
Read moreProfit attributable to shareholders was BRL 15.5 billion and diluted earnings per share BRL 0.99. Revenue was BRL 89.5 billion in 2024, BRL 79.7 billion in 2023, BRL 79.7 billion in 2022 and BRL 72.9 billion in 2021. Profit attributable to shareholders in the same years was BRL 14.4 billion, BRL 14.5 billion, BRL 14.5 billion and BRL 12.7 billion. Revenue grew 8.6% a year, compounded, over the five years to 2025. At the close of 10 November 2026 the market cap of Ambev was $43.8 billion, 15.4 times its earnings for 2025.

The share in the US

Last close$2.78 on 10 November 2026
52-week range$2.30 (22 December 2025) to $3.43 (6 May 2026)
Over one yearup 13.9%
Market cap$43.8 billion: 15,761,600,000 shares outstanding at 31 December 2025 (20-F), each US share standing for one ordinary share
P/E, latest fiscal year15.4: the last close over diluted EPS for the year to Dec 2025, BRL 0.99 per ordinary share, $0.18 at 5.49 BRL per US dollar on 6 November 2026 (FRED DEXBZUS). The company reports once a year, so this is the latest fiscal year, not the last four quarters.

US dollars per share as it trades in the US; the market cap and the P/E are worked out here, not filed. Prices from IEX, for splits.

Ratios

From the latest annual report, the year to Dec 2025, in dollars

ROE17.6%
ROCE25.5%
Operating margin26.4%
Net margin17.6%
FCF margin22.5%
Interest cover5.29
Debt to equity0.04
Cash conversion1.58
Share count, last 12 months-0.7%
Sales CAGR, 3 years3.4%
Profit CAGR, 3 years2.4%
EPS$0.18

At the close of 10 November 2026

Price$2.78
Market cap$43.8 billion
Stock P/E15.44
Price to book2.74
EV / EBITDAn/a
Dividend yieldn/a
Market cap / sales2.73
52-week high$3.43
52-week low$2.30
Price, 1 year13.9%
Price CAGR, 3 yearsn/a
Price CAGR, 5 yearsn/a
Worked from the filed figures; hover a name for the formula.
Read moreThe priced ones use the latest price, the last regular-hours trade on IEX. Debt to equity here stands on the borrowings total Ambev S.A. states in its annual report, never added up from its parts; lease liabilities are a separate line. Nothing here is a valuation or a view.
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The public record on ABEV

DividendsBRL 544 million paid in cash dividends in FY2023
Filings77 in twelve months: 76 reports on Form 6-K, most often CONSOLIDATED FORM Management and Related Persons’ Transactions of Securities Issued by the Company Article 11 - CVM Instruction # 44/2021 (9); individual form (6); notice to shareholders (6); material FACT notice (3); extract of the Minutes of the Meeting of the Board of Directors of Ambev S.A. held on March 30, 2026, drawn up in summary form (2)
Planned insider sales1 Form 144 notice in twelve months, $1.5 million; latest 30 July 2026
Options tapeput/call 0.56 by open interest at the 10 November 2026 close; the straddle prices a 19.9% move to 20 November 2026
13F holders407 funds reported a position for the quarter to 30 June 2026; largest First Eagle Investment Management, LLC
Insider trading5 sales and 0 purchases on Form 4 in twelve months
Congress0 House trades disclosed in six months
Short interest99.8 million shares short, 3.42 days to cover at 30 October 2026

Income statement (profit and loss), 11 fiscal years

Year toDec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017 †Dec 2018 †Dec 2019 †Dec 2020Dec 2021 †Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024 †Dec 2025
Revenue46,72045,60347,89950,23152,00558,37972,85479,70979,73789,45388,242
Cost of sales16,06116,67818,02819,24921,67827,06635,66040,42239,29243,61542,864
Gross profit30,65928,92529,87130,98230,32731,31337,19539,28740,44545,83845,378
Operating profit18,77817,10516,55217,15116,07515,97217,08017,68818,83121,80223,318
Finance costs3,5624,5984,4144,6844,7485,4305,4287,1414,9194,0284,411
Profit before tax16,51313,39812,83513,12212,94313,49413,75914,23615,03619,48719,422
Income tax3,6343155,0481,7747551,762-637656-75.5n/an/a
Profit for the year12,87913,0837,78811,34812,18811,73213,12314,89114,96014,84715,988
Profit attributable to shareholders12,42412,5477,26910,99511,78011,37912,67114,45814,50214,43715,503
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
BRL million, from each year's annual report on the SEC's EDGAR, linked in the last row, on the IFRS tags the company filed.
Read moreA line the company does not file under the standard tag is left out rather than estimated. A year marked † shows the figure as the company restated it in a later annual report (Dec 2017, Dec 2018, Dec 2019, Dec 2021, Dec 2022, Dec 2023, Dec 2024); the first-filed figure is in the CSV. Profit for the year includes the part that belongs to minority shareholders; profit attributable to shareholders is the part EPS is struck on. Each year links to its own page.
Year toDec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017 †Dec 2018 †Dec 2019 †Dec 2020Dec 2021 †Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024 †Dec 2025
Diluted EPS0.790.790.460.690.740.720.800.910.920.910.99
Basic EPS0.790.800.460.700.750.720.810.920.920.920.99
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F

BRL per ordinary share, as filed. One US-listed share can stand for more or fewer ordinary shares; the P/E above puts the two on the same basis.

Revenue by segment

Dec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017Dec 2018Dec 2019Dec 2020Dec 2021Dec 2022Dec 2023Dec 2024Dec 2025Share
of the parts, latest year
Braziln/an/a26,35326,81428,13030,19635,58642,63646,36248,60549,03155.6%
Latin America - South11,25610,21310,77010,75410,02911,56116,57217,37113,79719,83017,98820.4%
CACn/an/a4,7335,8146,7587,3199,9479,44010,04511,02410,96412.4%
Canada5,8106,4626,0446,8497,0899,30210,74910,2629,5339,99410,26011.6%
Latin America - north segment - Braziln/a24,955n/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
Latin America - north segment - CAC segmentn/a3,973n/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
North Latin America Segment - Brazil beer operations22,441n/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
North Latin America segment - Brazil soft drink and non-alcoholic and non-carbonated operations3,885n/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
North Latin America segment - Central America Operations, excluding Latin America South segment3,329n/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/an/a
Brazil FY2017 to FY2025Latin America - SouthCAC FY2017 to FY2025CanadaLatin America - north segment - Brazil FY2016Latin America - north segment - CAC segment FY2016North Latin America Segment - Brazil beer operations FY2015North Latin America segment - Brazil soft drink and non-alcoholic and non-carbonated operations FY2015North Latin America segment - Central America Operations, excluding Latin America South segment FY2015
46.7Dec 201547.9Dec 201752.0Dec 201972.9Dec 202179.7Dec 202388.2Dec 2025

BRL billion; hover a block for its figure and share; a part named with years is one the company split its revenue into only then

BRL million, from the latest 20-F, in the company's own words. A year is shown only where the parts add up to the revenue above.

Cash flow statement

Year toDec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017 †Dec 2018 †Dec 2019 †Dec 2020Dec 2021 †Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024 †Dec 2025
Cash from operations23,58112,34418,26118,34618,38118,85622,90120,64224,71126,09924,450
Purchase of property, plant and equipment5,3824,0353,2043,5715,0694,6937,6776,5336,0044,7494,590
Free cash flow18,1998,30915,05714,77513,31214,16315,22414,10918,70721,35019,860
Cash from investing-5,997-5,898-3,073-3,676-4,839-6,800-7,735-5,004-5,766-5,463-4,950
Cash from financing-15,328-11,645-13,251-13,656-12,284-8,602-16,042-16,338-16,115-10,352-26,772
Buybacksn/an/an/a3,0610.50.00.00.1n/a1,717n/a
Dividends paid2,6136,0074,0442,7623961,6892,649357544n/an/a
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
BRL million, from the cash flow statement as filed.
Read morePurchase of property, plant and equipment is the cash line as filed; purchases of intangible assets and acquisitions are not in it. Free cash flow is cash from operations less that purchase, arithmetic on the two filed lines. Cash from investing and from financing are the company's own section totals, below zero where cash went out. Buybacks are the cash paid for the company's own shares.

Balance sheet at year end

Year toDec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017 †Dec 2018 †Dec 2019 †Dec 2020Dec 2021 †Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024 †Dec 2025
Funded by
Equity attributable to shareholders50,33444,82546,00956,24861,27873,81682,64381,95678,96998,64287,914
Non-controlling interestsn/a1,8261,9741,2071,2781,3361,3751,3721,174938861
Borrowings, as filedn/a5,3962,5534,1043,0634,7923,1013,7713,5013,4533,387
Other liabilities39,84331,79438,23034,15636,12445,25351,48450,86048,99959,47552,926
Total equity and liabilities90,17683,84188,76695,714101,743125,196138,602137,958132,644162,508145,087
Owned
Property, plant and equipment19,14019,15418,82221,63822,57624,76829,22430,05626,63030,17027,644
Goodwill30,95330,51131,40234,27635,01040,02442,41140,59438,00444,34341,538
Other intangible assets5,0925,2464,6755,8416,3067,5818,6899,22210,04212,53111,043
Cash and cash equivalentsn/a7,87710,35411,46411,90117,09016,62814,92616,05928,59618,638
Trade and other receivablesn/a4,3684,9454,8794,4964,3034,7925,3495,7426,2706,352
Inventoriesn/a4,3474,3195,4025,9797,60611,00012,9239,61911,69010,520
Other assets34,99112,33814,24912,21515,47623,82425,85824,88826,54928,90929,352
Total assets90,17683,84188,76695,714101,743125,196138,602137,958132,644162,508145,087
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F
BRL million, at each fiscal year end.
Read moreBoth totals are the company's own; other liabilities and other assets are each total less the rows shown. Borrowings is the company's own stated total where it files one; it is never added up from its parts here.

Ratios on the filed lines

Year toDec 2015Dec 2016Dec 2017 †Dec 2018 †Dec 2019 †Dec 2020Dec 2021 †Dec 2022 †Dec 2023 †Dec 2024 †Dec 2025
Gross margin65.6%63.4%62.4%61.7%58.3%53.6%51.1%49.3%50.7%51.2%51.4%
Operating margin40.2%37.5%34.6%34.1%30.9%27.4%23.4%22.2%23.6%24.4%26.4%
Net margin26.6%27.5%15.2%21.9%22.7%19.5%17.4%18.1%18.2%16.1%17.6%
Free cash flow margin39.0%18.2%31.4%29.4%25.6%24.3%20.9%17.7%23.5%23.9%22.5%
Return on year-end equity24.7%28.0%15.8%19.5%19.2%15.4%15.3%17.6%18.4%14.6%17.6%
Effective tax rate22.0%2.4%39.3%13.5%5.8%13.1%-4.6%4.6%-0.5%n/an/a
Filing20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F20-F

Arithmetic on the filed lines of the same year: margins over revenue, return on equity as profit attributable to shareholders over year-end equity, tax over profit before tax.

Questions

What was Ambev's revenue in 2025?

Ambev (ABEV) reported revenue of BRL 88.2 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, down 1.4% on the year before.

How much did Ambev earn in 2025?

Profit attributable to shareholders was BRL 15.5 billion for the year to 31 December 2025, and diluted earnings per share BRL 0.99.

What is Ambev's P/E ratio?

At the close of 10 November 2026, Ambev traded at 15.4 times its earnings for 2025.

What is Ambev's market cap?

The market cap of Ambev was $43.8 billion at the close of 10 November 2026.

Peers: Beer & Liquor

CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
Coca-Cola Co. KO$416.9 billion28.5039.1%30.0%7.1%1.112.2%
PepsiCo Inc. PEP$195.7 billion18.0448.9%15.3%6.4%2.334.0%
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV BUD *$173.8 billion25.397.8%26.0%-0.7%0.842.6%
Diageo plc DEO *$56.5 billion32.5816.0%11.4%-0.7%1.983.3%
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. KDP$51.2 billion34.506.5%15.6%43.0%1.142.4%
Ambev S.A. ABEV *$43.8 billion15.4417.6%26.4%-1.4%0.04n/a
Constellation Brands, Inc. STZ$24.6 billion13.0522.4%30.2%-4.3%1.202.8%
Brown Forman Corp. BF.B$14.1 billion19.8818.2%25.4%-0.8%0.613.0%
Primo Brands Corp. PRMB$8.7 billion42.986.8%8.6%-13.0%1.691.9%
Vita Coco Company, Inc. COCO$3.8 billion33.0828.1%19.9%26.0%0.00n/a
Westrock Coffee Co. WEST$867 millionn/an/a-0.3%16.3%n/an/a
Amass Brands AMSS$3 millionn/an/an/an/an/an/a
All 14 in Beer & Liquor
CompanyMarket capP/EROEOp. marginSales growth
TTM
Debt to equityDiv. yield
Coca-Cola Co. KO$416.9 billion28.5039.1%30.0%7.1%1.112.2%
PepsiCo Inc. PEP$195.7 billion18.0448.9%15.3%6.4%2.334.0%
Anheuser-Busch InBev SA/NV BUD *$173.8 billion25.397.8%26.0%-0.7%0.842.6%
Diageo plc DEO *$56.5 billion32.5816.0%11.4%-0.7%1.983.3%
Keurig Dr Pepper Inc. KDP$51.2 billion34.506.5%15.6%43.0%1.142.4%
Ambev S.A. ABEV *$43.8 billion15.4417.6%26.4%-1.4%0.04n/a
Constellation Brands, Inc. STZ$24.6 billion13.0522.4%30.2%-4.3%1.202.8%
Brown Forman Corp. BF.B$14.1 billion19.8818.2%25.4%-0.8%0.613.0%
Primo Brands Corp. PRMB$8.7 billion42.986.8%8.6%-13.0%1.691.9%
Molson Coors Beverage Co. TAP$7.5 billion8.518.7%10.2%-2.3%0.584.7%
Vita Coco Company, Inc. COCO$3.8 billion33.0828.1%19.9%26.0%0.00n/a
Boston Beer Co. Inc. SAM$2.2 billionn/a-9.9%-5.1%-3.7%0.00n/a
Westrock Coffee Co. WEST$867 millionn/an/a-0.3%16.3%n/an/a
Amass Brands AMSS$3 millionn/an/an/an/an/an/a
10 companies share its SEC industry code (Beverages); the rest are the names nearest in size in its wider industry, Beer & Liquor, one of the Fama-French 48 industries, a published grouping of SEC industry codes.
Read moreBy market capitalisation; a click on a heading sorts by it, largest first, and a second click turns it round. Each figure is the same arithmetic as the ratio box above, on each company's own filings and latest close; a name marked * is a foreign company that files once a year, on its latest fiscal year.

Annual reports on EDGAR

FormYear toFiled
20-F31 December 20253 March 2026EDGAR
20-F31 December 202412 March 2025EDGAR
20-F31 December 202311 March 2024EDGAR
20-F31 December 202217 March 2023EDGAR
20-F31 December 202118 March 2022EDGAR
20-F31 December 202022 March 2021EDGAR
20-F31 December 201924 March 2020EDGAR
20-F31 December 201822 March 2019EDGAR
20-F31 December 201719 March 2018EDGAR
20-F/A31 December 201631 May 2017EDGAR
20-F31 December 201622 March 2017EDGAR
20-F31 December 201514 March 2016EDGAR