Parchayi.com - Personal Finance SimplifiedSinvesting TM - Part Uno
I saw the movie ‘Thank You For Smoking’ and realized that ATF = Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms companies - the root of all evil 
- are possibly good investments to consider. Personally, I wouldn’t invest in Tobacco and Firearms companies directly (can’t really do much about the holdings of my funds) but Alcohol is a different ball game - I might consider. So last Sunday, I spent fifteen minutes of my snowy (the first snow of the season) Sunday afternoon researching Alcohol stocks - not an easy task I must say. And now while I’m stuck at the Airport at Kansas City, MO thanks to a bird strike on the plane that is supposed to take me to Columbia, MO - I finally find the time to put this on the blog.
In Yahoo! Finance Alcohol stocks fall under two categories - 1) Brewers, 2) Winers and Distillers and information is generally not easy to find. Google Finance fortunately puts all of them under on category - Consumer/Non-Cyclical > Beverages (Alcoholic).
So the largest Alcohol stocks are:
Diageo plc (ADR) - DEO
Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. - BUD
Companhia de Bebidas das Americas (ADR) - AmBev - ABV
Quilmes Industrial (QUINSA) S.A. (ADR) - LQU
Brown-Forman Corporation - BF-B
Molson Coors Brewing Company - TAP
Constellation Brands, Inc. - STZ
Compania Cervecerias Unidas S.A. (ADR) - CU
Vina Concha y Toro S.A. (ADR) - VCO
Central European Distribution - CEDC
The Boston Beer Company, Inc. - SAM
Here is some research done for you. You can pick what to invest in or wait for Part Deux for my picks - it may be a while before the part two so you are better off doing your own research.
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