Investors in Chinese Brewing Stocks May Have Beer Goggles On

Investors in Chinese brewing stocks may have beer goggles on. While the sector lags behind global brewers in operating margins and earnings growth, the companies trade at a premium that outstrips their peer average by several times -- thanks in part to the U.S.-China trade tension that recently sparked a wave of demand for shares of domestically focused sectors from beverage to health care. To Sanford C. Bernstein analyst Euan McLeish, those investors’ only hope is for a “moonshot” of sorts.