Anheuser-Busch InBev SA on Thursday raised the bottom end of its full-year Ebitda guidance as it reported a market-beating third-quarter net profit and its best quarterly volume performance.
The brewer
ABI,
BUD,
which houses the Stella Artois and Budweiser brands among its portfolio, said volumes grew 3.7% organically, beating a consensus of 2.2%, taken from the company’s website. Within this, North America volumes fell 1.3%.
The company attributed the rise to an accelerated digital transformation and continued consumer demand for its brand portfolio.
AB InBev made a net profit for the quarter of $1.43 billion compared with $250 million for the same period a year earlier and a consensus of $1.41 billion, taken from FactSet.
Revenue for the period was $15.09 billion compared with $14.27 billion for the third quarter of 2021. Revenue grew 12.1% on an organic basis compared with a consensus of 10.2%, according to a company-provided consensus.
Normalized earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization–one of the company’s preferred metrics, which strips out exceptional and other one-off items–for the quarter rose to $5.31 billion from $5.21 billion, up 6.5% on an organic basis.
Normalized Ebitda consensus was $5.34 billion while revenue was $15.12 billion, according to FactSet estimates.
AB InBev raised the bottom end of its organic Ebitda growth range to 6%-8% compared with previous guidance for a rise of 4% to 8% for 2022, and reiterated that it expects revenue to grow ahead of Ebitda.
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