Anheuser-Busch Inbev (AB Inbev), the world’s largest brewery, announced on Wednesday (26) that it made net profit of $ 1.22 billion in the fourth quarter of 2024, lower than the gain of $ 1, 89 billion calculated in the same period of the previous year.
With adjustments, the profit per share between October and December was $ 0.88, above the forecast of $ 0.72 of analysts, according to a survey provided by the company itself.
AB INBEV’s informed revenue from Ambev in Brazil had an annual expansion of 2.5% in the quarter to US $ 14.84 billion, while standardized EBITDA increased by 10.1% to US $ 5.245 billion.
In organic terms, sales volume decreased by 1.9%amid continuity of business weakness in China. In this case, the consensus of analysts was of a lower fall of 1.3%. The last time AB InBev was advanced in sales volume was in the first quarter of 2023.
