How Monster Beverage Shares Soared a Monster 100,000% in the Last 20 Years
Odd Lots
Bloomberg
4.5 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When you think about the big winners in the stock market over the past couple of decades, you might think about Amazon or Apple or some other tech winner. Or maybe, if you've listened to Odd Lots before, you think about Domino's Pizza. But there's another company that's outshone them all. Monster Beverage Corporation, the maker of the popular energy drink has been, well, a monster. In the last 20 years, the stock is up over 100,000%. On this episode, we speak with Mark Astrachan, an analyst at Stifel Financial Corp., about how they produced such a stellar return.
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