With 5.07 million shares changed hands, the volume of the stock remained lighter than its average volume of 6.27 million shares. During the session, the Beverages – Non-Alcoholic company that operates in wider Consumer Defensive sector, reached to the highest price of $61.265 whereas the lowest price it dropped to was $60.03. The 52-week range on MNST shows that it touched its highest point at $62.46 and its lowest point at $43.32 during that stretch. It currently has a 1-year price target of $62.89. Beta for the stock currently stands at 0.58.
Price Performance and Earnings:
Stock performance is one of the indicators that investors use to determine whether they will profit from a stock. The price performance of MNST was up-trending over the past week, with a rise of 0.73%, but this was up by 4.13% over a month. Three-month performance surged to 26.63% while six-month performance rose 12.67%. The stock gained 9.99% in the past year, while it has gained 16.06% so far this year. A look at the trailing 12-month EPS for MNST yields 1.51 with Next year EPS estimates of 2.09. For the next quarter, that number is 0.48. This implies an EPS growth rate of 14.41% for this year and 12.80% for next year. EPS is expected to grow by 11.74% annually over the next five years; however, over the past five years, the company experienced an annual growth rate of 8.01%.
Float and Shares Shorts:
At present, 975.14 million MNST shares are outstanding with a float of 684.08 million shares on hand for trading. On 2025-04-30, short shares totaled 17.31 million, which was 178.0 higher than short shares on 1743379200. In addition to Mr. Rodney Cyril Sacks H.Dip.Law, H.Dip.Tax as the firm’s Co-CEO & Chairman, Mr. Hilton H. Schlosberg serves as its Co-CEO & Vice Chairman.
Institutional Ownership:
Through their ownership of 0.66516995 of MNST’s outstanding shares, institutional investors have minority control over the company.
An Overview of Recent Financials:
Understanding a company as a customer does not mean you will understand it as an investor. The wise investor uses quantitative research to analyze metrics such as revenue, net income, and earnings. In its fiscal quarter reported on 2025-03-31, MNST reported revenue of $1854558000.0 and operating income of $569745000.0. The EBITDA in the recently reported quarter was $610565000.0 and diluted EPS was $0.45.
Analysts Ratings:
Reading analyst opinions is an effective way to decide where to invest, and there are several opinions available for MNST since 12 analysts follow the stock currently. There are 10 analysts who recommend BUY ratings, while 0 suggest SELL ratings. Of the remaining analysts, 2 believe that the stock is worth HOLDING, 0 give it an OVERWEIGHT rating, and 0 thinks that it’s UNDERWEIGHT. In the same way, a target price assigned to a stock can also reveal much about its potential. With MNST analysts setting a high price target of 72.0 and a low target of 49.0, the average target price over the next 12 months is 61.36565. Based on these targets, MNST could surge 18.03% to reach the target high and fall by -19.67% to reach the target low. Reaching the average price target will result in a growth of 0.6% from current levels.
EPS: Estimates vs Actual
It is also common to use earnings estimates to evaluate a firm’s growth potential and to determine trading strategy. Analysts have provided yearly estimates in a range of $1.66491 being high and $1.60437 being low. For MNST, this leads to a yearly average estimate of $1.63464.
