Stock · MNST · Consumer Defensive
United States · Large Cap · listed since 1995 · Revenue 12 mo. $9.2B
Price as of 11/06/2026
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.
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 four segments: Monster Energy Drinks, Strategic Brands, Alcohol Brands, and Other. It offers carbonated non-carbonated energy drinks, ready-to-drink iced teas, 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. In addition, the company provides its products under the Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Rehab Monster, Monster Energy Nitro, Java Monster, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Monster Tour Water, Reign Total Body Fuel, Reign Storm, Bang Energy, NOS, Full Throttle, Burn, Mother, Nalu, Ultra Energy, Play and Power Play, Relentless, BPM, BU, Samurai, Live+, Predator, and Fury brands. Further, it offers craft beers, flavored malt beverages,and hard seltzers under the Jai Alai IPA, Florida Man IPA, Dale's Pale Ale, Wild Basin Hard Seltzers, Dallas Blonde, Deep Ellum IPA, Perrin Brewing Company Black Ale, Hop Rising Double IPA, Wasatch Apricot Hefeweizen, The Beast, and Beast Tea, Blind Lemon, and Blinder Lemon brands. The company engages in the concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling, and canning operations. It sells its products to full-service beverage bottlers/distributors, retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, mass merchandisers, convenience and gas chains, food service customers, value stores, e-commerce retailers, and the military. 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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Summary
52.8 of 100
Mean of the six area values. Each area value is the mean of the stock's ranks among the companies in its sector. 50 is the middle of the sector, not a share of companies beaten.
Analysis
What the price requires
If free cash flow stays at €1.8B (2025), it supports €19.6B. The remaining €59.6B of the market value assume it grows 19.5% a year for 10 years and not at all afterwards.
Required FCF growth per year
19.5%
no growth afterwards
Price to operating cash flow 40.4×, within its usual range.
Middle half of 20 quarters: 30.3× to 43.6×, median 35.8×.
Measures only against its own past, not against what the company is worth. Price as of 11/06/2026.
with respect to the priced-in expectation
with respect to the priced-in expectation
Since the last quarter
Q1 → Q2 2026
8 more unchanged: Revenue, 12 mo., FCF, 12 mo., Gross margin, EBIT margin, FCF margin, Net debt, Shares outstanding, Return on equity
Derivation
Each area value is the average of its metrics' ranks within the sector (0 to 100, 50 is the middle). For metrics where lower is better, the rank is mirrored. The overall value is the average of the area values.
Price as of 11/06/2026.
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Return on equity | 23.08% | 12.35% | Rank 80 |
| Return on capital (Greenblatt) | 48.44% | 20.14% | Rank 85 |
| EBIT margin | 29.17% | 9.44% | Rank 95 |
| FCF margin | 23.70% | 6.71% | Rank 97 |
| Gross margin | 55.85% | 35.78% | Rank 85 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue growth, 1 year | 10.70% | 2.12% | Rank 96 |
| Earnings growth, 3 years per year | 20.10% | 5.20% | Rank 84 |
| Earnings growth, 5 years per year | 7.99% | 6.07% | Rank 54 |
| Sustainable growth (ROE × retained earnings) | 1.59% | 3.77% | Rank 7 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Earnings yield | 2.12% | 4.25% | Rank 13 |
| FCF yield | 2.23% | 5.05% | Rank 15 |
| EV/saleslower is better | 10.39 | 1.51 | Rank 1 |
| EV/EBITlower is better | 35.63 | 16.74 | Rank 5 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share price, 1 year | 28.29% | 3.24% | Rank 87 |
| Share price, 6 months | 6.45% | 11.30% | Rank 32 |
| Share price, 3 months | 6.33% | 9.00% | Rank 39 |
| Distance from 52-week high | −8.51% | −7.96% | Rank 47 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Accruals (Sloan)lower is better | 12.70% | −0.99% | Rank 1 |
| Change in share countlower is better | −2.83% | −0.62% | Rank 85 |
| Dividend streak in years | – | 5 | Rank 7 |
| Price reaction to results, market-adjusted | −4.92% | 0.22% | Rank 6 |
| Metric | Stock | Sector median | Position in sector |
|---|---|---|---|
| Equity ratio | 82.63% | 41.95% | Rank 100 |
| Net debt/EBITDAlower is better | −0.80 | 1.96 | Rank 91 |
| Debt to equitylower is better | 0.00 | 0.67 | Rank 100 |
| Volatility, 1 yearlower is better | 26.57% | 25.82% | Rank 45 |
Ten years in figures
| Year | Revenue, $B | EBIT margin | FCF | Shares | Net debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 3.0 | 35.6% | $596.0M | 2.40B | −$377.6M |
| 2017 | 3.4 | 35.6% | $894.6M | 2.31B | −$528.6M |
| 2018 | 3.8 | 33.7% | $1.1B | 2.26B | −$637.5M |
| 2019 | 4.2 | 33.4% | $1.0B | 2.19B | −$798.0M |
| 2020 | 4.6 | 35.5% | $1.3B | 2.14B | −$1.2B |
| 2021 | 5.5 | 32.4% | $1.1B | 2.14B | −$1.3B |
| 2022 | 6.3 | 25.1% | $675.5M | 2.13B | −$1.3B |
| 2023 | 7.1 | 27.4% | $1.5B | 2.12B | −$2.3B |
| 2024 | 7.5 | 25.8% | $1.7B | 2.03B | −$1.2B |
| 2025 | 8.3 | 29.2% | $2.0B | 1.97B | −$2.1B |
5 of 7 StockScorer Score rules met · How the score is built
Monster Beverage Corp mainly meets criteria in the Profitability category. Result from 18 strategies checked.
Monster Beverage Corp is rated here with the StockScorer Score strategy, the flagship rule set. It compares return and cash-flow metrics with the median of the company's own sector and checks growth and price trend.
5 of 7 rules met
7 of 11 points
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Selected fundamental metrics for Monster Beverage Corp.
| Metric | Stock | Sector |
|---|---|---|
| P/E ratio | 47.2 | 22.8 |
| P/B ratio | 10.9 | 2.6 |
| Return on equity (ROE) | 23.1% | 12.3% |
| Equity ratio | 82.6% | 42.0% |
| Debt-to-equity (D/E) | 0.00 | 0.67 |
| Dividend yield | 0.0% | 2.6% |
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