Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST) price on current trading day, rose 5.51% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $54.78.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the level at last check in today’s session was $51.92. The PE ratio in trailing twelve months stood at 35.19. Turning to its 52-week performance, $61.22 and $43.32 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, MNST moved 11.57% over the past month.
Monster Beverage Corp’s market cap currently stands at around $53.27 billion, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for in March.
Analysts have a consensus estimate of 1.97B for the company’s revenue for the quarter, with a low and high estimate of 1.93B and 2.06B respectively. The average forecast suggests up to a 3.98% growth in sales growth compared to quarterly growth in the same period last fiscal year. Wall Street analysts have also projected the company’s year-on-year revenue to grow to 8.02B, representing a 7.07% jump on that reported in the last financial year.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that MNST is a 50% Sell. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Sell as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 100% Buy category.
12 analyst(s) have given their forecast ratings for the stock on a scale of 1.00-5.00 for a strong buy to strong sell recommendation. A total of 2 analyst(s) rate the stock as a Hold, 10 recommend MNST as a Buy and 0 give it an Overweight rating. Meanwhile, 0 analyst(s) rate the stock as Underweight and 0 say it is a Sell. As such, the average rating for the stock is Buy which could provide an opportunity for investors keen on increasing their holdings of the company’s stock.
The technical evaluation for the stock shows the PEG ratio is 3.00, with MNST’s current price about 10.15% and 8.83% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 70.38, while 7-day volatility ratio is 2.41% and 2.29% in the 30-day chart. Further, Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) has a beta value of 0.71, and an average true range (ATR) of 1.40. Analysts have given the company’s stock an average 52-week price target of $61, forecast between a low of $61 and high of $61. Looking at the price targets, the low is -11.35% off recent price level in today’s trading while to achieve the yearly target high, it has to move -11.35%. Nonetheless, investors will most likely welcome a -11.35% jump to $61 which is the analysts’ median price.
If we refocus on Monster Beverage Corp (NASDAQ:MNST), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 5.77 million over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 972.45 million shares.
The 28.96% of Monster Beverage Corp’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 66.08% of the company’s shares. Current price change has pushed the stock 4.22% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the MNST stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
