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ABI-BE · ISIN BE0974293251 · amounts in USD · grades from the latest annual financial report (ESEF, IFRS), no price
Price
no price yet
Industry
Consumer goods
Fiscal year
2025
Latest filing
ESEF as of 31 Dec 2025

Overview

Quality
12of 20 · moderate

More points than 57% of the 3,075 companies with complete grades

Quality points: four grades for balance sheet, profitability, cash flow and growth, 0 to 5 each.

Price vs. its own range
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No range

No price yet for European companies. The reason is given under Valuation.

Some of the quality rules are met.

What drives the result

  • Current ratio 0.72Balance sheet: 0 of 5 thresholds
  • Return on equity 7.8%Profitability: 2 of 5 thresholds · 2.2 percentage points short of threshold 3
  • Profit covered by cash flow 1.64×Cash flow: 5 of 5 thresholds
  • Revenue growth per year 4.8%Growth: 2 of 5 thresholds · 3.2 percentage points short of threshold 3

The four grades

Balance sheet1/5very weak
Profitability3/5solid
Cash flow5/5very strong
Growth3/5solid
How each grade is calculated

What this means. The quality points show how many of the published rules for balance sheet, profitability, cash flow and growth the latest reports meet. Separately, the range shows how the latest closing share price compares with the company’s own valuation history.

What it does not mean. Neither the points nor the range is a price target, a forecast or a recommendation to buy or sell. A company with many points can be richly valued, and a price below its range often has a reason.

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Quality

The four grades and how they are calculated

All values come from the annual financial reports in the European single electronic format ESEF (consolidated IFRS accounts). Each figure is checked against five fixed thresholds; each threshold reached counts one point. The grade is the rounded mean of its figures.

Balance sheet

1/5very weak

How well the company can cover its financial obligations.

Net debt to operating income 3.93× · Current ratio 0.72

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Profitability

3/5solid

How effectively it turns revenue into operating profit.

Operating margin 26.0% · Return on equity 7.8%

Cash flow

5/5very strong

How much cash remains after operating costs and investment.

Free cash flow to revenue 18.9% · Profit covered by cash flow 1.64× · Free cash flow positive 5 of 5 years

Growth

3/5solid

How quickly revenue and operating profit have increased.

Revenue growth per year 4.8% · Operating income per year 9.9%

Industry

Compared with its industry

The comparison is within the SEC industry “Beverages”. Grades are absolute and are not adjusted to the industry: in a weak industry a weak grade stays weak.

Quality points in the industry 3 with more, 8 with fewer points · Median 10.0 of 20 · 15 companies

More quality points do not mean a company is the better investment, only that more quality rules are met. It says nothing about the price.

Valuation

The price against its own history

No range is reported for this company. For European companies we do not show prices or a range yet: a licensed price series from the European exchanges is still missing. The grades are not affected, they only use the annual financial report.

Financials

The figures over the years

Every figure comes from the annual report of that year and has not been revised afterwards. Amounts in USD. Negative net debt means more cash than financial debt.

Amounts in USD, as in the consolidated IFRS accounts the company publishes in the European single electronic format ESEF. Loaded via the XBRL International archive (filings.xbrl.org).

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Competitive strengths

How durable the advantage is

4 of 10 points, measured over 6 years (2020 to 2025). Classification: weak. These points are not part of the quality points.

FeaturePointsMeasured
Return on capital, level0/3The company earns on average 6.6% of its assets per year as operating profit, measured over 6 years. Comparable companies are around 10%.
Return on capital, consistency0/30 of 6 years above 10%. Consistency is the real evidence, because anyone has one good year.
Pricing power2/2Gross margin averaging 56%, trending −2.2 percentage points from the first third to the last. A margin that holds for a decade is pricing power. One that melts away is competition.
Stability in a downturn2/2Operating margin averaging 25%. Tested in 2020 and 2022: 2020 21%, 2022 25%. Holding counts from two thirds of the company's own average.

What is measured is the trace of a moat: a durably high return on capital and margins that survive a downturn. The causes (switching costs, network effects, brand, licences, economies of scale) appear in no filing and are not claimed here.

History

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Sources

Sources and data status

Company figuresAnnual financial reports in the European single electronic format ESEF, machine-readable version (inline XBRL) of the consolidated IFRS accounts, loaded via the XBRL International archive (filings.xbrl.org). LEI 5493008H3828EMEXB082. Not estimated, not smoothed.
PricesFor European companies we do not show prices or a range yet: a licensed price series from the European exchanges is still missing. The grades are not affected, they only use the annual financial report.
Latest filingESEF as of 31 Dec 2025
fiscal year to 31 Dec 2025 · fiscal year to 31 Dec 2024 · fiscal year to 31 Dec 2023 · fiscal year to 31 Dec 2022 · fiscal year to 31 Dec 2021
Rule setVersion 3.1.0
Time horizonThe grades describe a state that can change with every annual report, so roughly quarterly. The forward test is first evaluated after 36 months.
EditorFlorian Maier
Produced on25.10.2026 21:17
Conflicts of interestsee the transparency note

Not investment advice and not an investment recommendation. Limits of the method and assumptions: risk notice.