Key Takeaways for Monster Beverage Stock as of July 2026
- With 12 buy ratings, 3 outperforms, 11 holds and a single sell, the Street’s $90 average target still sits 7% below Monster Beverage stock’s current price of $97.
- TIKR’s mid-case model values Monster Beverage stock at $124 by December 2030, a 28% total return, or 6% annualized.
- Revenue grew 26.9% in Q1 and April ran at 24%, yet consensus projects just 15% growth for the June quarter, leaving Monster Beverage stock undervalued if the deceleration the Street expects doesn’t arrive on schedule.
- A 2-for-1 stock split, declared July 9, takes effect Aug. 10.
Monster Beverage Beat Revenue Estimates by 10 Points and April Barely Slowed
Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST), the Corona, California-based energy drink maker, posted $2.35 billion in net sales for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, up 26.9% year over year. Consensus had called for roughly 16% growth, putting the beat at nearly 10 percentage points, the widest revenue surprise for Monster Beverage stock in recent memory.
What drove the upside was international. Sales outside the United States surged 44.9% to $1.06 billion, pushing the region to 45% of total revenue from 40% a year earlier, with EMEA alone up 52.5% in dollars. China grew 95% and India grew 94.5%, two markets where CEO Schlosberg told the dbAccess Global Consumer Conference on June 4 that the company is “in our infancy.”
That mix shift carried a cost: gross margin narrowed 150 basis points to 55.0%, a decline CEO Hilton Schlosberg attributed to geography, aluminum and out-of-orbit freight during the Q1 earnings call. Yet pricing actions taken in November offset the aluminum headwind entirely, and operating expenses fell to 23.9% of sales from 25.8%, keeping operating income growth at 28.1%.
On the same call, Goldman Sachs analyst Bonnie Herzog pressed Schlosberg on whether Q1’s strength pulled volume forward from Q2. His response in Q1 earnings call was direct: “We’re back to operating within our orbits, Bonnie. And this is something that happened in the first quarter. We always have to satisfy demand. That’s our #1 priority.”
And the April data backed him up. Management estimated April 2026 sales ran 24.4% above April 2025 on a reported basis, and 21.6% on a currency-adjusted basis, barely a deceleration from Q1’s pace.
Fresh capital return followed. On May 15, the board authorized a new $500 million share repurchase program on top of the roughly $400 million left under the prior authorization. Then on July 9, the company declared a 2-for-1 stock split structured as a 100% stock dividend, with shares distributing after the close on Aug. 10.
Analysts Hold a $90 Target on Monster Beverage Stock Despite the Q1 Revenue Beat
Twelve analysts rate Monster Beverage stock a buy, three call it an outperform, eleven have it at hold, and one recommends selling, as of July 9. The average target of $90 implies a 7% decline from the current price of $97, a gap that widened after the stock rallied more than 30% from its March 31 close of $72.
That spread between target and price signals the Street hasn’t fully updated its models for the revenue trajectory visible in Q1 and April.
Wall Street Expects Monster Beverage Stock’s Revenue Growth to Halve by Late 2026
Monster Beverage posted $2.35 billion in revenue for the March quarter, a 26.9% increase that cleared the consensus estimate by 10 percentage points.
Consensus now calls for $2.42 billion in the June quarter, up 15% year over year. That estimate assumes growth drops nearly in half from Q1’s pace, even though April sales ran at 24% growth on a reported basis, with management explicitly denying any pull-forward of volume from Q2 into Q1.
By September, the Street models $2.43 billion and 11% growth, followed by $2.35 billion and 10% growth in December. The trajectory bottoms at $2.48 billion and 5% growth in March 2027 before rebounding to $2.65 billion and 9% in June 2027.
Whether April’s 24% pace represents the quarter or just one strong month will determine if the June estimate needs to move higher.
TIKR’s $124 Target on Monster Beverage Stock Requires Revenue Growth to Stay Elevated
TIKR’s mid-case model values Monster Beverage stock at $124 by December 2030, implying 28% total return from the current price of $97, or 6% annualized over 4.5 years.
For a company still growing revenue north of 20% on a currency-adjusted basis, a 6% annualized return prices in heavy deceleration over the next four years.
The path to $124 depends on whether the revenue momentum visible in Q1 and April persists long enough for the Street’s models to catch up. International sales hit 45% of total revenue in Q1, with China up 95% and India up 95%, and management sees those markets as still in their infancy. If the consensus June quarter estimate of $2.42 billion proves too low by even a few percentage points, the repricing of the full-year revenue trajectory follows.
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