CluenexConstellation Brands STZ
Constellation Brands scores average on business quality (5.1 of 10). Here is why, in plain words, and what our sealed record shows.
Why it matters
- What Constellation Brands does
Constellation Brands produces and markets beer, wine, and spirits, making its money primarily by selling iconic Mexican beer brands like Corona and Modelo to U.S. adult consumers through a vast distributor network.
- What it does best
Constellation commands the U.S. high-end beer market through unmatched brand power, generating a 53.0% gross margin that towers over Brown-Forman's 60.7% despite vastly different product mixes and massive distribution scale.
- The main risk
Falling revenue of 10.5% threatens volume absorption across key production facilities, squeezing top-line scale if consumer spending weakens further under macroeconomic pressure.
Quality, check by check
Scored against its own industry, from company filings.
Operating margin hits 34.2% and FCF margin sits in the 86th sector percentile, expanding as scale efficiencies protect cash generation.
Scale and distributor lock-in protect its beer segment, backed by an operating margin ranking in the 96th sector percentile.
Revenue fell 10.5% to $9.1B over the latest period, reversing prior gains seen in the annual summary and showing sharp stagnation.
Total debt sits at $10.6 billion against $102 million in cash, leaving interest coverage at 8.9x and free cash flow at $1.8B, getting softer.
Insiders
Executives and directors, from SEC Form 4 filings we read ourselves. Open market trades only; grants, option exercises and pre-planned sales left out.
No open market buys or unplanned sales by executives or directors.
Our sealed record on STZ
Verdicts appear here 30 days after we publish them; members see today's. Each one is in the nightly ledger, fingerprinted the night it was made.
The first sealed verdicts appear here on Oct 11, 2026.
Questions
Constellation Brands scores average on the Cluenex quality check (5.1 of 10), measured against its own industry. Profitability is strong, moat fair, growth slow and financial health fair.
In the last 90 days of SEC Form 4 filings: No open market buys or unplanned sales by executives or directors.
Jan 5, 2027, before the open.
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Cite this page: Cluenex, “Constellation Brands (STZ)”, https://cluenex.com/stocks/stz/, data as of Oct 10, 2026.