Monster Beverage Corporation shares are trading close to a major resistance level. Given the share's technical chart pattern, investors could anticipate that this resistance zone will be broken which could lead to new upside potential.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility.
Strengths
● The company's EBITDA/Sales ratio is relatively high and results in high margins before depreciation, amortization and taxes.
● The group's activity appears highly profitable thanks to its outperforming net margins.
● Thanks to a sound financial situation, the firm has significant leeway for investment.
● Over the past four months, analysts' average price target has been revised upwards significantly.
● Over the past twelve months, analysts' opinions have been strongly revised upwards.
● Considering the small differences between the analysts' various estimates, the group's business visibility is good.
Weaknesses
● The company's valuation in terms of earnings multiples is rather high. Indeed, the firm is getting paid 38.61 times its estimated earnings per share for the ongoing year.
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company appears highly valued given the size of its balance sheet.
● The company is highly valued given the cash flows generated by its activity.
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%).