Monster Beverage Corp
Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) is listed on NASDAQ and classified in Beverages - Non-Alcoholic, part of the Consumer Defensive sector. It is headquartered in Corona, United States and has 5,773 employees. The company is worth $92.66B and trades at 43.8x its earnings of the last twelve months; the median for its sector is 18.2x. Revenue was $8.29B in fiscal 2025, up 10.7% from the year before. Net income was $1.91B. The share price is 5.7% below its 52-week high of $50.17. 9 of the 38 superinvestors we track held it at the end of Q2 2026. The largest position belongs to Cliff Asness (AQR Capital Management), at $260.25M. In that quarter, 4 of them opened or added to the position and 5 reduced it. No open-market insider trades in it were filed over the last 30 days.
Written from the data on this page: SEC filings (13F, Form 4, annual reports) and market prices.
Year by year, from the annual reports; dividends from the payments themselves.
Bars are year-end balances; lines are what happened during the year.
Major managers that reported this stock in their latest 13F.
▲ +118.3% over 5Y.
today you would have $2,152.00▲ +115.2%
Dividends reinvested, splits accounted for. Past prices say what happened, not what will.
The last 18 closed years, each at that year’s closing price and reported numbers.
| Indicator | Median | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year-end price | $38.33 | $26.28 | $28.81 | $25.38 | $24.01 | $23.12 | $15.89 | $12.31 | $15.82 | $11.09 | $12.41 | $9.03 | $5.65 | $4.40 | $3.84 | $2.18 | $1.60 | $1.40 |
Seven formulas applied to the reported numbers, each with its assumption next to the result. None of them predicts a price.
Square root of 22.5 × earnings × book value. Blind to intangibles, so it undervalues software and brands.
Earnings growing 8.0% a year plus a 0.0% dividend yield. Growth capped at 25%.
Median P/E of 18.2 among peers in the sector.
Median P/E of 35.2 across this company’s own years on record.
Cash flow growing 8.0% a year for 10 years, discounted at 10%, then 2.5% forever.
Sector median of 11.4x operating profit, less net debt. Banks have no EBITDA.
This formula has no meaning here — usually a loss, negative cash flow, or a missing input.
Companies of similar size in Consumer Defensive, for comparison. The columns are the same ones above, in the same order.
| Stock | Price | P/E | P/B | Dividend yield | ROE | Market cap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MDLZMondelez International, Inc. | $65.19 | 24.0x | 3.1x | 3.19% | 13.34% | $83.2B |
| CLColgate Palmolive Co | $97.39 | 36.8x | 329.0x | 2.18% | 267.37% | $77.64B |
| TGTTarget Corp | $158.11 | 15.8x | 4.0x | 2.93% | 26.41% | $71.83B |
| MOAltria Group Inc | $76.07 |
| P/E | 35.2x | 39.6x | 35.3x | 37.4x | 45.4x | 37.3x | 35.1x | 31.4x | 28.0x | 44.5x | 37.3x | 52.5x | 39.1x | 34.7x | 28.5x | 30.0x | 22.9x | 17.4x | 30.2x |
| P/S | 7.8x | 9.0x | 6.8x | 8.4x | 8.4x | 9.2x | 10.6x | 8.1x | 7.0x | 10.6x | 8.2x | 11.1x | 7.5x | 5.0x | 4.2x | 4.7x | 3.6x | 3.0x | 3.2x |
| P/B | 8.0x | 9.1x | 8.6x | 7.3x | 7.6x | 7.7x | 9.5x | 8.2x | 7.4x | 9.2x | 7.5x | 6.3x | 12.2x | 11.4x | 13.6x | 8.2x | 5.6x | 5.8x | 7.5x |
| EPS | $0.97 | $0.74 | $0.77 | $0.56 | $0.64 | $0.66 | $0.51 | $0.44 | $0.36 | $0.30 | $0.24 | $0.23 | $0.16 | $0.15 | $0.13 | $0.09 | $0.09 | $0.05 |
| Profit margin | 20.11% | 22.97% | 20.14% | 22.84% | 18.88% | 24.86% | 30.65% | 26.37% | 26.08% | 24.36% | 23.37% | 20.08% | 19.60% | 15.08% | 16.50% | 16.80% | 16.26% | 18.26% | 10.45% |
| ROE | 25.46% | 23.08% | 25.33% | 19.82% | 16.96% | 20.98% | 27.31% | 26.56% | 27.50% | 21.07% | 21.40% | 11.37% | 31.89% | 34.13% | 52.77% | 29.23% | 25.60% | 35.68% | 24.76% |
Median of the years shown; P/E years above 200x are left out.
The average of the method families that answered, not of the seven numbers: four of the seven start from the same earnings per share.
6 methods answered, across 3 families.
Room for errors in the reported numbers.
-60.0% from the average.
Models, not forecasts, and not investment advice. How each formula works →
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| 5.84% |
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| $127.02B |
| BTIBritish American Tobacco p.l.c. | $60.47 | 15.5x | 10.5x | 5.52% | 13.42% | $130.04B |
| ULUnilever PLC | $67.00 | 13.0x | 7.9x | 3.16% | 31.87% | $144.29B |