Pursuant to the correction that has taken place in recent weeks with respect to the shares in Monster Beverage Corp, further downside risk now appears limited by close and important technical support levels at 47.95 USD.
Summary
● The company has strong fundamentals. More than 70% of listed companies have a lower mix of growth, profitability, debt and visibility criteria.
● The company has solid fundamentals for a short-term investment strategy.
Strengths
● 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.
● Analysts remain confident with respect to the group's activity and, more often than not, have revised upwards their earnings per share estimates.
● The difference between current prices and the average target price is rather important and implies a significant appreciation potential for the stock.
Weaknesses
● The group usually releases earnings worse than estimated.
● Based on current prices, the company has particularly high valuation levels.
● The company benefits from high valuations in earnings multiples.
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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%).