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Ingredion is an ingredients provider for the food, beverage, brewing, and animal nutrition industries. The company processes corn, tapioca, potatoes, stevia, grains, fruits, gums, and vegetables into value-added ingredients. The company has two main product lines: specialty and core ingredients. Specialty ingredients includes starch-based texturizers, natural alternative sweeteners such as stevia, and plant proteins for alternative dairy and snacks. Core ingredients includes sweeteners, such as high-fructose corn syrup, and commodity starches, such as those used for sustainable packaging.

Based in Houston, Sysco is the largest foodservice marketing and distribution company in North America. The company's major customers include restaurant chains as well as schools and colleges, hotels, hospitals, and other foodservice outlets. The company distributes more than 400,000 products, including approximately 40,000 Sysco-branded items.

With every earnings win reported on Wednesday, there seems to be an equal and opposite reaction in the form of an earnings disappointment. And with earnings the main source of investor optimism or caution today, it's little surprise that the major U.S. stock indices are flat. Over the course of the morning, the indices have played jump rope with their opening levels, landing on one side for a period of time only to land on the other side shortly thereafter. Still, after multiple days of gains, the financial press is viewing the lack of further share-price progress as worrisome, and it is not difficult to find the words 'stalled' and 'lost steam' used to label the stock market today. Geopolitics are not helping, as tension in the Middle East continues to roil that area and is the basis for domestic discontent as well, while U.S. relations with China remain strained after the U.S. revoked export licenses for Intel and Qualcomm to sell chips to China's Huawei, a maker of PCs and mobile phones. The Dow was up 0.2%, the S&P 500 fell 0.1% and the Nasdaq lost 0.3%. Crude oil is trading below $79 per barrel and gold is little changed at $2324 per ounce.

Anheuser-Busch InBev is the largest brewer in the world and one of the world's top five consumer product companies, as measured by EBITDA. The company's portfolio contains six of the top 10 beer brands by volume, according to Euromonitor, and we estimate it distributes 23 brands with retail sales over $1 billion. AB InBev was created by the 2008 merger of Belgium-based InBev and US-based Anheuser-Busch. The firm holds a 62% economic interest in Ambev and in 2016 it acquired SABMiller.