AI brief of an SEC Form 8-K · Monster Beverage (MNST)

Monster Beverage Q4 sales rise 4.7% to $1.81 billion; reported profit falls 26.2%

Mixed Impact 3 of 5 earnings Written later

Monster Beverage reported fourth-quarter and full-year 2024 results, with net sales up 4.7% in the quarter to $1.81 billion. Reported net income fell 26.2% to $270.7 million because of a $130.7 million Alcohol Brands impairment charge, while adjusted net income fell 6.6% to $375.7 million. Shareholders are weighing solid sales growth against lower reported earnings and a large non-cash charge.

Key points

  • Q4 2024 net sales rose 4.7% to $1.81 billion; on a foreign-currency-adjusted basis, sales rose 7.8%.
  • Reported Q4 diluted EPS was $0.28, down from $0.35; adjusted diluted EPS was $0.38, unchanged from the prior year.
  • Full-year 2024 net sales rose 4.9% to $7.49 billion, and reported net income fell 7.5% to $1.51 billion.
  • No shares were repurchased in Q4 2024; about $500.0 million remained available under the repurchase program as of February 26, 2025.

The filing

CompanyMonster Beverage (MNST)
Form8-K, current report
Filed with the SECFeb 27, 2025, 4:19 PM ET
Accession number0001104659-25-018243

Items reported: 2.02 Results of Operations

Read the filing on SEC.gov ↗

Written by AI (Anthropic Claude, claude-haiku-5-5) on Nov 8, 2026, 1:21 AM ET, from the text of the filing and its press-release exhibits only. Written later: this filing was briefed after the fact, when past filings were added to the site, so the brief may be read with hindsight; the filing itself is the record of what was known on February 27, 2025.

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