Monster Beverage Corp
At today's price, Monster Beverage Corp (MNST) is priced for +28.5% growth. boothcheck doesn't publish a fair value or a price target; it shows what the price assumes, so you can judge whether that bar is too high. Built from SEC EDGAR filings.
• Monster Beverage is essentially a pure-play energy-drink company, with the Monster Energy segment making up the bulk of sales, distributed in approximately ⟦"158 countries and territories worldwide"⟧ largely through the Coca-Cola system, and earning a near-30% operating margin. • The trajectory is the story: first-quarter net sales rose 26.9% to $2.35 billion, operating income grew 28.1% to $730 million, and international sales jumped 44.9% to reach about 45% of the total. [Source: Monster Q1
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1,193 institutional managers reported holding MNST in 13F filings for the quarter ended 2026-03-31. Together they hold about 62% of the company; the top 10 hold 30%. 121 opened new positions that quarter. Held by Vanguard Group, BlackRock, State Street, among others. On the short side, 22.3M shares were sold short as of the 2026-06-15 count, about 2% of shares outstanding (4 days of typical volume to cover).
Quarterly 13F filings arrive up to 45 days after quarter end, so the picture is never current (filed through 2026-05-29). Nothing here is investment advice.
MNST has cut its share count 7.5% over the past five years, spending $5.47B on repurchases. It pays no dividend. Cash returned over the past three years: $4.61B in repurchases.
Share counts are split-adjusted; repurchase totals are gross of share issuance. Nothing here is investment advice.
No open-market insider buys on file at MNST over the trailing three years. Absence is a fact about the company, not a signal. 11 officers and directors are on file.
Code P open-market purchases from SEC Form 4 filings, non-derivative, excluding scheduled 10b5-1 plans. Nothing here is investment advice.
MNST's recent reports: the day-one move, then what the following quarter actually did.
| report | day one | next quarter |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-03-02 | -3.1% | +13.2% |
| 2023-05-06 | +2.3% | -6.4% |
| 2023-08-05 | -4.4% | -9.3% |
| 2024-03-01 | +5.3% | -6.5% |
Day-one is the close-to-close move around the filing. Nothing here is investment advice.
MNST's latest 8-K filings: 2026-07-08 (items 8.01, 9.01); 2026-06-04 (items 5.02); 2026-05-15 (items 5.07, 8.01, 9.01); 2026-05-07 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01); 2026-02-26 (items 2.02, 7.01, 9.01).
Item codes are the SEC's own classification of what each report discloses. Nothing here is investment advice.
Last analyzed: July 3, 2026
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