Key Stats for Beyond Meat Stock
- 3-Day Price Change for $BYND stock: 600%
- Current Share Price: $3.62
- 52-Week High: $2.33
- $BYND Stock Price Target: $6.64
What Happened?
Beyond Meat (BYND) stock is having its wildest week in history, soaring for the third straight day on Wednesday with shares up as much as 146%.
The plant-based burger maker has now gained close to 600% in just three trading sessions, a move that has nothing to do with the company’s struggling fundamentals and everything to do with meme-stock mania.
Two catalysts sparked the explosion. First, Beyond Meat announced that its “Beyond Burger 6-pack” and “Beyond Chicken Pieces” will be available at 2,000 Walmart stores across the U.S.
Second, the stock was added to the Roundhill Meme Stock ETF (MEME) on Monday, which appears to have triggered a massive short squeeze.
More than 63% of shares available for trading were sold short, according to FactSet. When the meme ETF added BYND stock, short sellers rushed to cover their positions, sending the price soaring.
That created a feedback loop where rising prices forced even more shorts to exit, pushing shares higher.
The timing is remarkable considering where BYND stock was just last week.
Shares tumbled more than 67% and ended the week at just 65 cents after it announced a debt deal that will dilute existing shareholders by up to 326 million shares.
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What the Market Is Telling Us About BYND Stock
The market’s reaction to BYND stock is unrelated to the company’s business, which remains fundamentally weak. This is pure speculative trading driven by retail investors coordinating on online message boards like WallStreetBets.
Second quarter sales crashed 19.6% to just $75 million, while it reported an operating loss of $35 million. The company laid off 6% of its workforce after two previous rounds of layoffs in 2024. Beyond Meat is shrinking to survive by cutting costs and rebuilding distribution from the ground up.
Last week’s debt swap deal reduced approximately $800 million in debt by exchanging it for $202.5 million in new debt due in 2030, but the dilution to shareholders is massive. The company’s value has plummeted from $14 billion after its 2019 IPO to $1.4 billion today, despite this week’s surge.
The Walmart expansion is nice, but it’s hardly a game-changer. Beyond Meat has been struggling with weak demand at retail locations and soft demand at fast food restaurants. Adding distribution doesn’t solve the core problem that consumers aren’t buying the product in meaningful volumes.
BYND stock has posted losses in each of the last five years. It fell 47% in 2021, 81% in 2022, 27% in 2023, 57% in 2024, and was down 3% in 2025 before this week’s rally. After soaring past $230 per share following its IPO, BYND is a penny stock in October 2025.
The return of Beyond Meat as a meme stock could signal a frothy market where investors pile into speculative names despite elevated valuations. Roundhill actually shut down its meme ETF at one point due to a lack of interest, but revived it earlier this month as retail traders jumped back into the bull market.
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