Monster Beverage Corporation
Rank #132Capital ReturnMNST · Nasdaq · Consumer Defensive
Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) — Rank #132 by gross profitability (GP/assets 0.41) · ROE 20.3% · Piotroski F-Score N/A.
As-of 2026-09-15 · CIK 0000865752 · all metrics point-in-time as of the filing date.
About
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.
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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.
- Industry
- Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
- Sector
- Consumer Defensive
- Filer Category
- Large accelerated filer
- Fiscal Year End
- December 31
- Website
- monsterbevcorp.com
Price History
Company Snapshot
P/E and reverse DCF are the primary valuation lenses at this stage.
Market Cap
$86.81B
P/E (annual)
—
P/S (annual)
10.5
P/B
9.3
P/OCF (annual)
41.4
Shareholder Yield
2.8%
Employees
5,773
Industry
Beverages - Non-Alcoholic
Exchange
Nasdaq
Signal Flags
Quality Profile
Profitability
1/1 passSafety
1/1 passCash Flow
3/3 passGrowth
2/2 passTerry Smith quality gate
Passes 4/5 Terry Smith thresholds1 of 5 threshold not computable from filed data.
What Growth Is Priced In
Implied revenue growth (10Y)
9.1%
The annual FCF growth rate today's price requires over a 10-year horizon (discount rate 10%, terminal growth 2.5%).
Buyback tailwind: -2.8% — per-share value needs a total required return of 6.3% once share-count change is priced in.
vs. own 6-year median revenue growth: 11.9%
within its own historyCost-of-equity sensitivity (implied growth at different discount rates)
r = 8%
4.7%
r = 10% (base)
9.1%
r = 12%
12.9%
Net debt / market cap: -8.8%
Valuation History
Current multiple vs historical range at each filing date. Band spans 25th-75th percentile.
P / S
Price / revenue per share
P / B
Price / book value per share
P / GP
Price / gross profit per share
P / FCF
Price / free cash flow per share
FCF yield, shareholder yield, and buyback activity are the primary reads at this stage.
Profitability
Gross profitability (GP / assets)
0.41
Primary signal (Novy-Marx).
2nd of 18 SIC 20 peers
Return on equity
20.3%
Gross margin
55.8%
3rd of 18 SIC 20 peers
Revenue growth (YoY)
10.7%
Gross margin improving
Margin trend vs prior year.
Operating Leverage
| 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | |
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| Revenue vs OpEx | ||||
| Op. Income vs Revenue |
Growth
Revenue CAGR (3Y)
9.5%
Revenue CAGR (5Y)
12.5%
Earnings CAGR (3Y)
16.9%
FCF CAGR (3Y)
41.2%
Anti-fragile safety
Balance-sheet safety
Composite anti-fragile check.
Debt / equity
0.22
2nd of 18 SIC 20 peers (best = lowest)
Current ratio
3.73×
7th of 18 SIC 20 peers
Quick ratio
3.10×
Net cash
$3.83B
Cash & equivalents minus total debt.
Cash-flow health
Free cash flow
$1.97B
Operating cash flow minus capex.
Positive free cash flow
FCF / net income
0.03
Cash-backing of earnings.
FCF/NI divergence
Unfavorable divergence (yellow flag).
Accruals healthy
Cash-backed earnings.
SBC / revenue
1.5%
Stock-based comp intensity.
Piotroski F-Score
F-Score
N/A
Only 8/9 components determinable.