Monster Beverage MNST

equity

Price History

1985-12 · DCA start$0.0407

Time underwater

How far below its previous all-time high the price sat, each month. 0% means a new high.

1985-122026-08 · -4.6%

Worst drawdown: −96%, peaking Jul 1986 and bottoming Dec 1995 — 214 months below the prior high before recovering.

DCA Backtest

Start month

Monthly amount (USD)

Invested: $48,900
Value today: $74,187,921
Return: +151613.5%
Months invested: 489

Scenarios

Inflation — the same contributions merely keeping pace with CPI would be $87,502 today, so the real (inflation-adjusted) return is +84684.3%.

Lump sum instead — $48,900 all at once in Dec 1985: $55,257,359 (+112900.7%) — DCA came out ahead.

Worst timing — same monthly amount started at the all-time high (Jul 2026): $195.41 on $200 invested (-2.3%).

⚠ Price returns only — dividends are not included. This understates the true return of dividend-paying shares, and any comparison against crypto (which pays no dividends) is biased against equities by roughly the dividend yield, compounded.

If this saved you a spreadsheet — buy me a coffee.

Every start month at once

Each cell is the return-to-date of £/$/€100-a-month DCA started that month. Click a cell to load it in the backtest above. The ringed cell is the all-time-high start — the worst timing scenario.

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Legend:−50%−20%0%+50%+200%+1000%worst timing (ATH)Selected 1985-12: +151613.5%

About Monster Beverage

Monster Beverage Corporation is an American beverage company that manufactures energy drinks including Monster Energy, Relentless, Reign and Burn. The company was originally founded as Hansen's in 1935 in Southern California, originally selling juice products. The company renamed itself as Monster Beverage in 2012. (Wikipedia)

It's a listed company categorised under consumer staples and soft drinks & non-alcoholic beverages, with a market cap of about $45.0B.

It rates Medium-Low Risk at 1.8/5, meaning the rated factors are mostly sound, with one or two areas worth watching.

What pushes the score up: market / volatility (3.0/5).

Scoring well: leverage / financial at 1.0/5.

Not yet researched: earnings quality, concentration, governance. These are excluded from the score rather than guessed, so the real risk may be higher than what’s shown.

Ratings summarise sourced facts against fixed rules — not investment advice, and no substitute for your own diligence.

Risk Profile

Medium-Low Risk(1.8/5)65% rated

How these ratings work

Market / Volatility3.0/5 · weight 20%

Annualised volatility (3yr)2/524.3
Max drawdown from ATH5/595.6
Beta vs S&P 5002/50.73

Liquidity1.0/5 · weight 15%

Avg daily $ volume1/5547.0m
Float % of shares outstandingnot yet researched

Leverage / Financial1.0/5 · weight 20%

Debt / equity1/50.22
Interest coverage (EBIT / interest)not yet researched

Earnings Qualityunrated · weight 15%

3yr EPS volatilitynot yet researched

Concentrationunrated · weight 10%

Largest customer, % of revenuenot yet researched
Geographic revenue concentrationnot yet researched

Governanceunrated · weight 10%

Board independence %not yet researched
Share structurenot yet researched
Litigation / audit historynot yet researched

Sector / Regulatory2.0/5 · weight 10%

Sector regulatory exposure2/5moderate

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