Critical Survey: Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) & Amer Prem Water (OTCMKTS:HIPH)

Monster Beverage (NASDAQ:MNST) and Amer Prem Water (OTCMKTS:HIPH) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the superior stock? We will compare the two businesses based on the strength of their institutional ownership, risk, earnings, dividends, valuation, profitability and analyst recommendations.

Volatility and Risk

Monster Beverage has a beta of 0.46, indicating that its share price is 54% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Amer Prem Water has a beta of 1.59, indicating that its share price is 59% more volatile than the S&P 500.

Profitability

This table compares Monster Beverage and Amer Prem Water’s net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
Monster Beverage	21.65%	27.76%	22.20%
Amer Prem Water	N/A	N/A	N/A

Insider & Institutional Ownership

72.4% of Monster Beverage shares are held by institutional investors. 8.3% of Monster Beverage shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that hedge funds, large money managers and endowments believe a stock will outperform the market over the long term.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a summary of current ratings and recommmendations for Monster Beverage and Amer Prem Water, as provided by MarketBeat.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
Monster Beverage	1	13	13	1	2.50
Amer Prem Water	0	0	0	0	0.00

Monster Beverage presently has a consensus target price of $75.74, suggesting a potential downside of 3.11%. Given Monster Beverage’s stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities analysts clearly believe Monster Beverage is more favorable than Amer Prem Water.

Valuation and Earnings

This table compares Monster Beverage and Amer Prem Water”s revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
Monster Beverage	$7.49 billion	10.19	$1.51 billion	$1.76	44.41
Amer Prem Water	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Monster Beverage has higher revenue and earnings than Amer Prem Water.

Summary

Monster Beverage beats Amer Prem Water on 10 of the 11 factors compared between the two stocks.

About Monster Beverage

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 three 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. The company sells its products to full service beverage bottlers/distributors, retail grocery and specialty chains, wholesalers, club stores, mass merchandisers, convenience chains, food service customers, value stores, e-commerce retailers, and the military; and concentrates and/or beverage bases to authorized bottling and canning operations. It provides its products under the Monster Energy, Monster Energy Ultra, Monster Rehab, Monster Energy Nitro, Java Monster, Punch Monster, Juice Monster, Muscle Monster, Espresso Monster, Monster Tour Water, Fury, Monster MAXX, Caffe Monster, Monster Hydro, Monster HydroSport Super Fuel, Monster Dragon Tea, Reign Total Body Fuel, and Reign Inferno Thermogenic Fuel, Reign Storm, Bang Energy, NOS, Full Throttle, Burn, Mother, Nalu, Ultra Energy, Play and Power Play (stylized), Relentless, BPM, BU, Gladiator, Samurai, Live+, Predator, and Fury brands. 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.

About Amer Prem Water

American Premium Mining Corporation focuses on supporting the blockchain ecosystem through proof-of-work and proof-of-stake mining of cryptocurrencies. The company was formerly known as American Premium Water Corporation and changed its name to American Premium Mining Corporation in May 2022. American Premium Mining Corporation is based in Playa Vista, California.