Note from Ashley Cassell, Managing Editor, TradeSmith Daily: Some of my favorite emails I get each week are the ones from Andy and Landon Swan – because they’re serving up insights I don’t see anywhere else on streaming companies… pizza companies… big-box retailers… You name it.

That’s because of the unique data their “LikeFolio” algorithm uses to score stocks.

While most market data relies on things like company earnings, stock momentum, and insider transactions… LikeFolio is all about consumer demand for the product (or service). So, it looks at what people are saying on social media and typing into search engines, as well as what the brand’s web traffic is like in general.

This makes LikeFolio scores predictiveof the next earnings report, rather than reacting to past trends or company guidance.

Starting today, we’ll be bringing you LikeFolio case studies from Andy and Landon as often as we can here in TradeSmith Daily.

Read on to hear how LikeFolio signaled them to a golden opportunity in an industry where tariffs have just changed the game in this company’s favor…

A “Drink American” Buy Signal

BY ANDY SWAN, FOUNDER, LIKEFOLIO

Tariffs on Mexican imports are about to rock the beer industry.

With President Donald Trump planning 25% tariffs on Mexican imports, and upward of 80% of U.S. beer imports coming from our neighbor to the south, alcohol industry giants are now grappling with a stark reality:

Rising production costs and stunted demand.

That’s bad news for Constellation Brands (STZ), whose Mexican-brewed Modelo brand rose to the top of the rankings in 2023 to become the best-selling beer in America.

It’s not just Modelo that would become more expensive, either. About 99% of Constellation’s beers are brewed in Mexico.

Source: Yahoo Finance

The beverage giant spent north of $900 million on Mexico manufacturing in fiscal year 2024 to build out its Veracruz facility. The company has another $3 billion in spending planned through FY 2028.

The takeaway: Constellation faces a dire situation. Another brewer, however, finds itself in prime position to capitalize on its competitor’s woes…

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TAP: A Home-Brewed Profit Opportunity

Molson Coors Beverage Company (TAP) has made all the right moves to prepare for this moment.

The company is aggressively expanding its above-premium portfolio to align itself with increasing consumer demand for higher-quality beverages.

Its diversified beer lineup consists of core “power brands” like Coors Light, Miller Lite, and Molson Canadian, premium brands such as Blue Moon and Leinenkugel’s, and value brands like Keystone.

And its November 2024 buyout of Cruz Blanca, the Mexican-inspired craft beer brand based out of Chicago, now looks like a huge opportunity in light of the new 25% tariff on Mexican imports.

With American-made Cruz Blanca under its belt, Coors is well prepared to steal market share from rival Constellation Brands’ popular Modelo, Pacifico, and Corona brands at just the right time.

The American-Made Advantage

Molson Coors has been busy expanding its North American footprint to support long-term growth.

It recently completed a multi-hundred-million-dollar “G150” project to modernize its iconic Golden, Colorado, brewery – the largest in the nation – adding a new brewhouse, vertical tanks, and a packaging line in a facility that’s nearly three football fields long.

Because TAP operates breweries in the U.S. and Canada and sources ingredients from North America, it’s more insulated from tariff pressures than its big international competitors like Constellation, Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev (BUD), Brazil-based Ambev (ABEV), and Netherlands-based Heineken (HEINY).

Plus, Coors’ newfound edge comes as the company TAPs into a lucrative $40 billion trend.

TAPping Into the Non-Alcoholic Beer Boom

We started tracking the rising popularity of non-alcoholic beer in 2023 as increased awareness around the risks of alcohol use influenced younger generations to drink less booze than their predecessors.

It proved to be much more than a fleeting trend. The rate of imbibing among adults aged 18 to 34 is down 10% over the last two decades, according to a 2023 Gallup poll, with Gen Z leading the charge.

Source: Statista

Brewers like Coors are rapidly adapting to this new reality by rolling out innovative and flavorful non-alcoholic beer options.

And consumers are drinking them up: Non-alcoholic beer sales in the U.S. exploded 30% year over year through the first 10 months of 2024.

This segment is now on track to double the size of the craft beer market by 2032, with estimates suggesting the non-alcoholic beer industry could soar to a whopping $40 billion.

Source: The Business Research Company

Molson Coors’ non-alcoholic beer offerings include Coors Edge, Blue Moon Non-Alcoholic, and Peroni 0.0.

Today, the company is expanding its “Beyond Beer” portfolio with strategic partnerships, including:

• Naked Life, Australia’s top-selling non-alcoholic ready-to-drink cocktail, with plans to launch options like Mojito and Negroni Spritz in the U.S. starting this month.
• Fever-Tree, the world’s leading supplier of premium carbonated mixers for alcoholic spirits, acquiring an 8.5% stake and exclusive U.S. marketing rights.
• ZOA Energy, the better-for-you energy drink brand from WWE icon-turned-actor Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, taking a majority ownership stake.

TAP Web Visits Are Bubbling Higher

LikeFolio’s social media insights reveal consumers are discovering – and loving – Coors’ expanding lineup of differentiated beer brands and non-beer beverages.

TAP web traffic has tripled over the past two years, while visits to rivals Constellation Brands and Boston Beer Co. (SAM) websites have declined…

…signaling that a major uplift in the Coors brand following the infamous Bud Light controversy is persisting.

Bottom line: While Trump tariffs create uncertainty in the market at large, there are always opportunities to be found in individual stocks. And with Constellation’s Mexican-made beer brands in trouble, LikeFolio’s insights reveal there’s a new opening for TAP to rise to the top.

I’ll cheers to that!

We’re getting ready to do our next monthly report on the MegaTrends uncovered in our LikeFolio data over time… Although we did just do a buy alert on two growth stocks that couldn’t wait. They were just too oversold.

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Until next time,

Andy Swan
Founder, LikeFolio