Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) earnings on May 7, 2026
More Monster Beverage Corporation earnings
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
The stock jumped after earnings, climbing as much as 16.85% before settling at a 13.58% gain. Investors responded positively to the company's results despite earlier concerns.
MNST price around the earnings
86.29
Change: +13.6%
2026-05-08, 20:00 UTC
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Prior thesis
Prior outlook: Pessimistic Outcome: Missed
- Thesis published
Lagging market, retail very optimistic, analysts mixed, sell risk.
This stock is lagging the market and shows extreme optimism from retail investors, while analysts have mixed actions. There's a risk of selling off after recent positive news, despite a good history of beating earnings.
Context analyzed before publication
- Summary
- Lagging market, retail very positive, analysts mixed, sell risk.
- Playbook
- Given the mixed analyst contexts and potential for a 'sell the news' event, the scenario warrants attention. Analyst target changes are a key factor.
- Trend
- Momentum weakening, sell-the-news risk elevated.
Analysts
Drivers
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Analysts
Negative
While one firm upgraded to 'Buy', another maintained a 'Neutral' rating and lowered its price target.
Evidence
- Analyst consensus
- Buy
- Consensus average (1-5)
- 2
- Analysts covering the stock
- 23
- Average price target
- 85.64
- Lowest price target
- 64
- Highest price target
- 100
- Upside to price target
- 10.9%
- Quarterly earnings growth
- 65.9%
- Revenue growth
- 17.6%
- Forward EPS
- 2.53
- Trailing EPS
- 1.94
- Analyst moves in the last 60 days
- 7
- Strong buy: 3
- Buy: 12
- Hold: 10
- Sell: 0
- Strong sell: 1
- Strong buy
- 3
- Buy
- 12
- Hold
- 10
- Sell
- 0
- Strong sell
- 1
- May 6, 2026 · Rothschild & Co: Upgrades rating (Neutral → Buy)
- May 4, 2026 · JP Morgan: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- April 23, 2026 · Stifel: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- April 8, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
- April 7, 2026 · UBS: Maintains rating (Neutral → Neutral)
- March 30, 2026 · Deutsche Bank: Maintains rating (Buy → Buy)
- March 16, 2026 · Wells Fargo: Maintains rating (Overweight → Overweight)
News and sentiment
Drivers
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News & sentiment
Positive
The analyst upgrade is positive, but concerns remain due to the accompanying target reduction.
Evidence
Sentiment
- Sentiment
- Constructive
- Mention volume
- Low
- Normalized volume
- 33%
News
Sources (6)
- Palo Alto To Rally Around 20%? Here Are 10 Top Analyst Forecasts For Wednesday — Benzinga
- Rothschild & Co Upgrades Monster Beverage to Buy, Raises Price Target to $90 — Benzinga
- JP Morgan Maintains Neutral on Monster Beverage, Lowers Price Target to $78 — Benzinga
- Stifel Maintains Buy on Monster Beverage, Lowers Price Target to $90 — Benzinga
- Wells Fargo Maintains Overweight on Monster Beverage, Lowers Price Target to $85 — Benzinga
- UBS Maintains Neutral on Monster Beverage, Lowers Price Target to $80 — Benzinga
Technicals
Drivers
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Technical
Negative
The stock has underperformed the broader market over the last 30 days and shows weaker relative strength.
Evidence
- Average true range (ATR)
- 2.1%
- Distance to 52-week high
- -11.7%
- 14-day change (14d)
- +0.7%
- 30-day change
- +5.5%
- 30-day relative strength
- -6.8%
- Benchmark change
- +12.3%
- Nearest support
- 70.88
- Nearest resistance
- 78.36
- Volume accumulation ratio
- 0.79
Trends
Evidence
- Average earnings surprise
- +4.5%
- February 26, 2026: actual EPS 0.5 vs estimate 0.49 (surprise +2.7%)
- November 6, 2025: actual EPS 0.54 vs estimate 0.48 (surprise +13.4%)
- August 7, 2025: actual EPS 0.5 vs estimate 0.48 (surprise +4.1%)
- May 8, 2025: actual EPS 0.45 vs estimate 0.46 (surprise -2.1%)
Expected move
Drivers
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Past earnings
Positive
The company has beaten earnings expectations 75% of the time, with recent positive surprises.
There is no implied-move data available for this event.
Reactions over its last 19 earnings
- Median move
- 5%
- 75th percentile move
- 5.5%
- 90th percentile move
- 6.6%
- Up / down moves
- 13 / 6
- Average up move
- +4.8%
- Average down move
- -4.4%
Monitoring and close
What Monster Beverage Corporation reported
There is no monitoring data available for this event.
Pre-market second reading after the results
There is no second reading available for this event.
How the stock reacted
- Outcome
- Missed
- Consolidated
- +13.6%
- Max favorable move (MFE)
- 0%
- Max adverse move (MAE)
- 16.9%