Key Factors to Consider Before Investing in Monster Beverage (MNST)

By Kim Brooks • Friday, August 25 12:54 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Monster Beverage over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Beverages stock at a price of $57.09? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Monster Beverage has moved -36.0% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 9.0%
MNST has an average analyst rating of buy and is -8.52% away from its mean target price of $62.41 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $1.37
Monster Beverage has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 41.7 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $1.79 and its forward P/E ratio is 31.9
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 7.63 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Monster Beverage is part of the Consumer Staples sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 24.36 and an average P/B of 4.29
MNST has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of 50.8% and gross profit margins of 0.5%
The company has a free cash flow of $1.0 Billion, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Monster Beverage Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in development, marketing, sale, and distribution of energy drink beverages and concentrates in the United States and internationally. The company operates through three segments: Finished Product, Concentrate, and Other. It offers carbonated non-carbonated energy drinks, ready-to-drink iced teas and juice drinks, lemonades, juice cocktails, single-serve juices and fruit beverages, ready-to-drink dairy and coffee drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and single-serve still waters, and sodas that are considered natural, sparkling juices, and flavored sparkling beverages. The company sells its products to full service beverage bottlers/distributors, retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, drug chains, mass merchandisers, convenience chains, health food distributors, food service customers, and the military; and concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling and canning operations. It provides its products under the Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Nitro, Java Monster, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Muscle Monster, Espresso Monster, Monster Hydro Energy Water, Monster Hydro Super Sport, Monster Super Fuel, Monster Dragon Tea, Reign Total Body Fuel, and Reign Inferno Thermogenic Fuel, Reign Storm, True North, NOS, Full Throttle, Burn, Mother, Nalu, Ultra Energy, Play and Power Play (stylized), Relentless, BPM, BU, Gladiator, Samurai, Live+, Predator, and Fury brands. The company was formerly known as Hansen Natural Corporation and changed its name to Monster Beverage Corporation in January 2012. Monster Beverage Corporation was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Corona, California.

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