Avoid the stress of overpaying for a stock or missing an opportunity by using the right tools and insights to evaluate Monster Beverage Corporation before investing.

In this article, we go over a few key elements for understanding Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price such as:

• Monster Beverage Corporation’s current stock price and volume
• Why Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price changed recently
• Upgrades and downgrades for MNST from analysts
• MNST’s stock price momentum as measured by its relative strength

About Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST)

Before we jump into Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price, history, target price and what caused it to recently rise, let’s take a look at some background.

Monster Beverage Corporation, through its subsidiaries, engages in development, marketing, sale, and distribution of energy drink beverages and concentrates in the United States and internationally. The company operates through four segments: Monster Energy Drinks, Strategic Brands, Alcohol Brands, and Other. It offers carbonated non-carbonated energy drinks, ready-to-drink iced teas, lemonades, juice cocktails, single-serve juices and fruit beverages, ready-to-drink dairy and coffee drinks, energy drinks, sports drinks and single-serve still waters, and sodas that are considered natural, sparkling juices, and flavored sparkling beverages. In addition, the company provides its products under the Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Rehab Monster, Monster Energy Nitro, Java Monster, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Monster Tour Water, Reign Total Body Fuel, Reign Storm, Bang Energy, NOS, Full Throttle, Burn, Mother, Nalu, Ultra Energy, Play and Power Play, Relentless, BPM, BU, Samurai, Live+, Predator, and Fury brands. Further, it offers craft beers, flavored malt beverages,and hard seltzers under the Jai Alai IPA, Florida Man IPA, Dale’s Pale Ale, Wild Basin Hard Seltzers, Dallas Blonde, Deep Ellum IPA, Perrin Brewing Company Black Ale, Hop Rising Double IPA, Wasatch Apricot Hefeweizen, The Beast, and Beast Tea, Blind Lemon, and Blinder Lemon brands. The company engages in the concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling, and canning operations. It sells its products to full-service beverage bottlers/distributors, retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, mass merchandisers, convenience and gas chains, food service customers, value stores, e-commerce retailers, and the military. The company was formerly known as Hansen Natural Corporation and changed its name to Monster Beverage Corporation in January 2012. Monster Beverage Corporation was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Corona, California.

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Monster Beverage Corporation’s Stock Price as of Market Close

As of May 08, 2026, 10:33 AM, CST, Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price was $85.960.

Monster Beverage Corporation is up 13.15% from its previous closing price of $75.970.

During the last market session, Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock traded between $83.130 and $86.790. Currently, there are approximately 977.52 million shares outstanding for Monster Beverage Corporation.

Monster Beverage Corporation’s price-earnings (P/E) ratio is currently at 39.2, which is high compared to the Beverages industry median of 24.5. The price-earnings ratio gauges market expectation of future performance by relating a stock’s current share price to its earnings per share.

Monster Beverage Corporation Stock Price History

Monster Beverage Corporation’s (MNST) price is currently up 11.54% so far this month.

During the month of May, Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price has reached a high of $86.790 and a low of $74.600.

Over the last year, Monster Beverage Corporation has hit prices as high as $87.380 and as low as $58.090. Year to date, Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock is up 12.12%.

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What Caused Monster Beverage Corporation Stock’s Price to Rise?

Stock prices are primarily based on seller supply and buyer demand. But have you ever wondered about what other factors affect a stock's price?

When an analyst changes their opinion of a stock by upgrading or downgrading their rating, it often leads to a sudden stock price adjustment. As of May 07, 2026, there was 1 analyst who downgraded Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock and 0 analysts who upgraded over the last month.

Additionally, you'll want to evaluate Monster Beverage Corporation’s financial health and valuation. Investors can use AAII's Value Grade, which combines six key valuation metrics like P/E and P/S ratios for a comprehensive analysis to conduct analysis on Monster Beverage Corporation’s valuation and financial health. This approach mitigates the limitations of single-metric evaluations.

Monster Beverage Corporation’s current valuation based on AAII’s Value Grade is a F, which means it is considered to be Ultra Expensive.

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Lastly, news and media coverage as well as recent press reports about the company or its industry may cause stock prices to fluctuate. You can check out the most recent news articles about Monster Beverage Corporation (MNST) by visiting AAII Stock Evaluator.

Relative Price Strength of Monster Beverage Corporation

Relative price strength measures a stock's performance against the market, helping investors identify stocks that are outperforming benchmarks.

For AAII’s Momentum Grade, a weighted relative price strength is calculated. Follow this link to learn more about the Momentum Grade.

As of May 07, 2026, Monster Beverage Corporation has a weighted four-quarter relative price strength of -2.73%, which translates to a Momentum Score of 49 and is considered to be Average.

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Monster Beverage Corporation Stock Price: Bottom Line

As of May 8, 2026, Monster Beverage Corporation’s stock price is $85.960, which is up 13.15% from its previous closing price.

AAII advises against making stock decisions based solely on price or past returns. Instead, consider a variety of metrics, fundamentals, and analytics to evaluate a stock like Monster Beverage Corporation stock prices are influenced by market supply and demand and offer just a snapshot of a company's overall health.

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