SAM vs JPC Comparison

Boston Beer is a top player in high-end malt beverages and adjacent categories in the US, with strong positions in craft beer, flavored malt beverages, hard cider, and hard seltzer. The bulk of volume and revenue is concentrated in four brands: Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, Twisted Tea, and Truly. Beverages are produced using a hybrid model leveraging both in-house capacities and third-party breweries through contract arrangements. While the firm is required to use distributors to reach end markets, including retailers and on-premises operators, it also employs 500 internal sales representatives to educate the market about its products. The firm generates almost all sales in the US.

Nuveen Preferred & Income Opportunities Fund is a diversified closed-end management investment company. Its investment objective is to provide high current income and total return. It invests its managed assets in preferred securities, and in other types of securities, primarily income-oriented securities such as corporate and taxable municipal debt and common equity.