- Prev close
- $94.16
- Day range
- $89.50 – $93.90
- Next earnings
- in 89 days
Monster Beverage had a modest 2026-08-05 close gain of +0.3% ahead of its August 6 earnings release, and the setup looks mostly intact but a rich 45.4 PE and 3.56 PEG mean the market is already paying up for growth.
MNST
MONSTER BEVERAGE CORP
As of Aug 6, 2026
68/100
Worth keeping an eye onHealth ScoreWhy it moved
MNST closed 2026-08-05 up +0.3%, while the S&P 500 fell -0.2% and the Nasdaq 100 fell -0.4%. That points to a stock-specific move rather than a broad market driver, and the most direct catalyst in the facts is the August 6 earnings release already on the calendar. The intraday path was also orderly: it opened at $94.91, traded to $95.17, and finished at $94.46, so the session was a small, contained move rather than a sharp reversal.
Normal volatility?
This looks like ordinary pre-earnings volatility, not a sign of deteriorating fundamentals. Revenue is still growing +18.1% YoY (TTM), the latest quarter was +26.9% YoY, EPS is +36.0% YoY (TTM), and margins remain strong at gross +55.5%, operating +29.3%, and net +23.1%. The valuation is not cheap at PE 45.4 and forward PE 39.5, with a PEG of 3.56 — P/E divided by growth rate, so investors are paying 3.56x the growth rate — which means the stock can move on small changes in expectations. Beta is 0.48, so the name is less volatile than the market on average, but rich pricing still makes any earnings-related move more sensitive than the beta alone suggests.
Earnings preview
The company is set to report 2026 second quarter results on August 6, 2026 after the market closes, with a conference call at 2 p.m. Pacific Time. The facts here do not provide sell-side consensus revenue or EPS growth, and prior post-earnings reaction data is not available this period, so I won’t invent a pattern that isn’t in the file. What the market is waiting to learn is whether the latest quarter can keep up with the recent top-line pace of +26.9% YoY, whether margins can hold near the current +55.5% gross and +29.3% operating levels, and whether management confirms that the +18.1% revenue growth and +36.0% EPS growth trend is durable rather than a one-off.
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