Currently, there are 973.08M common shares owned by the public and among those 692.57M shares have been available to trade.
The company’s stock has a 5-day price change of 1.30% and 28.77% over the past three months. MNST shares are trading 14.19% year to date (YTD), with the 12-month market performance up to 12.42% higher. It has a 12-month low price of $43.32 and touched a high of $61.29 over the same period. MNST has an average intraday trading volume of 6.16 million shares. The stock is trading above its simple moving averages at the SMA20, SMA50, and SMA200, as the current price level is off by 2.18%, 4.91%, and 14.26% respectively.
Institutional ownership of Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ: MNST) shares accounts for 66.64% of the company’s 973.08M shares outstanding.
It has a market capitalization of $58.53B and a beta (3y monthly) value of 0.59. The stock’s trailing 12-month PE ratio is 40.45, while the earnings-per-share (ttm) stands at $1.48. The company has a PEG of 3.40 and a Quick Ratio of 2.65 with the debt-to-equity ratio at 0.07. Price movements for the stock have been influenced by the stock’s volatility, which stands at 1.88% over the week and 2.47% over the month.
Analysts forecast that Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) will achieve an EPS of 0.46 for the current quarter, 0.47 for the next quarter and 2.07 for current fiscal year. The lowest estimate earnings-per-share for the quarter is 0.44 while analysts give the company a high EPS estimate of 0.44. Comparatively, EPS for the current quarter was 0.42 a year ago. Earnings per share for the fiscal year are expected to increase by 13.30%, and 11.10% over the next financial year. EPS should grow at an annualized rate of 11.88% over the next five years, compared to 8.01% over the past 5-year period.
Looking at the support for the MNST, a number of firms have released research notes about the stock. Wells Fargo stated their Overweight rating for the stock in a research note on May 05, 2025, with the firm’s price target at $65-$67. JP Morgan coverage for the Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) stock in a research note released on May 02, 2025 offered a Neutral rating with a price target of $60. BofA Securities was of a view on April 25, 2025 that the stock is Buy, while Truist gave the stock Sell rating on April 23, 2025, issuing a price target of $40- $50. UBS on their part issued Neutral rating on April 17, 2025.
