The selling pressure regarding Monster Beverage Corporation shares could subside shortly. In fact, the support area that is currently being tested around 53.02 USD has come into play and could, at least in the short term, keep the downside pressure at bay.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
Strengths
● The close medium term support offers good timing for purchasing the stock.
● Margins returned by the company are among the highest on the stock exchange list. Its core activity clears big profits.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Predictions on business development from analysts polled by Standard & Poor's are tight. This results from either a good visibility into core activities or accurate earnings releases.
Weaknesses
● The company's earnings releases usually do not meet expectations.
● The company's "enterprise value to sales" ratio is among the highest in the world.
● With a 2019 P/E ratio at 27.43 times the estimated earnings, the company operates at rather significant levels of earnings multiples.
Monster Beverage Corporation specializes in the development and marketing of beverages. Net sales break down by product family as follows:
- energy drinks (98%): primarily carbonated and non-carbonated energy drinks (Monster Energy®, Monster Energy Ultra®, Monster Rehab®, Monster Energy® Nitro, Java Monster®, Punch Monster®, Juice Monster®, Monster Hydro®, Monster Super Fuel®, Monster Dragon Tea®, Reign Total Body Fuel®, Reign Inferno®, Reign Storm®, True North®, NOS®, Full Throttle®, Burn®, Mother®, Nalu®, Ultra Energy®, Play®, Power Play®, Relentless®, BPM®, BU®, Gladiator®, Samurai®, Live+®, Predator®, Fury®, etc. brands);
- alcoholic beverages (1.6%): primarily beers, hard seltzers and flavored malt beverages (Cigar City®, Oskar Blues®, Deep Ellum®, Squatters®, Wild Basin®, Wasatch®, Perrin®, The Beast Unleashed®, etc. brands);
- other (0.4%).
Products are made and bottled by sub-contractors.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States and Canada (65.2%), Europe/Middle East/Africa (19.5%), Latin America and Caribbean (8.1%) and Asia/Pacific (7.2%).