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Monster Beverage Corporation

Beverages - Non-Alcoholic · United States

USD 43.34-0.4% daily changeQuote 2026-10-06 · USD
Market cap (USD)
US$84.92B
Trailing P/E
40.13x
Forward P/E
33.11x
Quarterly revenue growth
20.2%
Trailing net margin
23.1%
Indicated dividend yield
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Snapshot 2026-10-06 · Latest financial period 2026-06-30 · Yahoo Finance. Quotes may be delayed; reporting periods can differ.

Next earnings: 2026-11-05 (provider estimate, not issuer-confirmed).

Company background

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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Q2 2026

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MetricMNSTMonster Beverage CorporationSnapshot 2026-10-06Financial period: 2026-06-30KDPKeurig Dr Pepper Inc.Snapshot 2026-10-06Financial period: 2026-06-30PEPPepsiCo, Inc.Snapshot 2026-10-06Financial period: 2026-06-13Peer medianSimilar-size peers only
Market capMarket value, converted to USDUS$84.92BUS$42.24BUS$172.22BUS$107.23Bn=2
Forward P/EProvider forward earnings estimate33.11x12.24x14.14x13.19xn=2
EV / EBITDAEnterprise value / trailing EBITDA27.93x17.19x11.34x14.27xn=2
Revenue growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter20.2%75.6%6.4%41.0%n=2
Operating marginLatest reported quarter29.2%12.9%16.8%14.9%n=2
Free cash flow yieldTrailing cash flow / market cap2.0%10.9%4.5%7.7%n=2
Net debt / EBITDANet debt / trailing EBITDA-1.13x6.66x2.25x4.45xn=2
Debt / equityTotal debt / positive book equity0.01x1.00x2.39x1.69xn=2
Trailing P/ETrailing twelve-month earnings40.13x31.35x16.52x23.94xn=2
Price / bookPrice / positive book equity per share9.07x1.69x7.79x4.74xn=2
EV / salesEnterprise value / trailing revenue8.88x4.11x2.21x3.16xn=2
Earnings growthLatest quarter vs prior-year quarter18.0%-90.0%137.0%23.5%n=2
Gross marginTrailing twelve months55.5%51.0%54.2%52.6%n=2
Net marginTrailing twelve months23.1%7.1%10.8%8.9%n=2
Return on equityProvider trailing return; positive equity only25.7%5.1%51.5%28.3%n=2
Free cash flow marginTrailing free cash flow / revenue18.2%22.9%8.1%15.5%n=2
Dividend yieldIndicated annual dividend / price—3.0%4.7%3.8%n=2
Earnings payoutProvider trailing dividend payout0.0%92.9%75.3%84.1%n=2
Current ratioCurrent assets / current liabilities3.73x0.48x0.93x0.71xn=2
BetaProvider historical market sensitivity0.490.410.360.39n=2

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Q2 20262026-08-07
Q1 20262026-05-08

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