How Monster Beverage Corporation stacks up

MNST · against 149 other Consumer Defensive companies listed in US-listed

Valuation

19/ 100

Near the bottom of its peers.

Ranked #123 of 150 · scores higher than 17% of peers

Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the valuation score

16 peers with a valuation score of 10–19, including MNST · Click a bar to see the companies

Why valuation scores 19?

Weighted metrics compared with all Consumer Defensive companies.

Mainly because of its EBITDA yield, free cash flow yield and earnings yield, which are weaker than most Consumer Defensive peers.

less operating profit (EBITDA) for the company's total value: weaker than 82% of peers. EBITDA yield: 3.3% vs peer median 8.7%
less free cash flow for the price paid: weaker than 77% of peers. Free cash flow yield: 2.3% vs peer median 6.2%
lower earnings for the price paid: weaker than 71% of peers. Earnings yield: 2.3% vs peer median 4.5%

Metric by metric

Position: dot = MNST, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.

Metric	MNST	Peer median	Better than	Weight
Earnings yieldHigher is better · 146 reported	2.3%	3.7%	35%	30%
EBITDA yieldHigher is better · 151 reported	3.3%	9.0%	17%	50%
Free cash flow yieldHigher is better · 132 reported	2.3%	5.8%	18%	20%
Book yieldHigher is better · 145 reported	10.1%	39.9%	14%	Context only

Ranking by valuation score

Top 5 and the companies ranked around MNST

Rank	Company	Market cap	Valuation	Overall
1	Afya LimitedAFYA · US-listed	933M USD	97	84
2	Nature's Sunshine Products, Inc.NATR · US-listed	212M USD	93	72
2	Phoenix Education Partners, Inc.PXED · US-listed	843M USD	93	88
4	Smithfield Foods, Inc.SFD · US-listed	7.2B USD	92	72
5	BellRing Brands, Inc.BRBR · US-listed	1.1B USD	91	67
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121	Edgewell Personal Care CompanyEPC · US-listed	1.3B USD	20	29
121	Molson Coors Beverage CompanyTAP-A · US-listed	8.2B USD	20	17
123	Costco Wholesale CorporationCOST · US-listed	451.8B USD	19	52
123	Mama's Creations, Inc.MAMA · US-listed	607M USD	19	67
123	Monster Beverage CorporationMNST · US-listed	92.4B USD	19	73
126	The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.EL · US-listed	38.2B USD	18	31
126	e.l.f. Beauty, Inc.ELF · US-listed	6.6B USD	18	43
126	The Kraft Heinz CompanyKHC · US-listed	29.1B USD	18	28
129	Mission Produce, Inc.AVO · US-listed	963M USD	17	29

Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score

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