Список проголосовавших за комментарий " <table class="BriefingDataTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr> <td class="tickerColumn"> </td> <td class="articleColumn">Monster Beverage: Color on Quarter (42.01)<ul><li><strong>Stifel</strong> raises their price target to $57 from $55, reiterates Buy. They note that Monster Beverage Corp. reported a meaningful sales and EPS beat in 4Q16 and also provided a solid month of January gross sales update on its earnings call. They believe the result is far better than feared given concerns that decelerating growth in U.S. scanner data indicated weakening end-demand. International legacy sales increased approximately 55% y/y, more than 2x the full-year growth rate, benefiting from accelerating brand awareness and the transition to Coke distribution in the majority of international geographies. Additionally, operating margin expanded 360bps y/y to 39.5% (or about 200bps normalizing for a benefit from lower promotional expenses in 4Q16), reflecting solid leverage on heightened expenses and likely helping to alleviate concerns about Monster's ability to manage incremental investment. Monster also announced a new $500mm share repurchase authorization given continued strong free cash flow generation.</li><li><strong>RBC</strong> notes that MNST shares rallied +11% after-hours (bringing the stock into green territory from a year ago) on strong 4Q16 and January '17 sales growth (relative to expectations). Ahead of the print, investors were downbeat on Monster due to soft scanner data, but as they have written before, they think investors are under-appreciating Monster's long-term growth opportunity in non-tracked channels and international. Reiterates Outperform, $61 tgt.</li></ul><p><em>Shares are currently trading ~12.6% higher in the pre-market</em></p></td> </tr></table>"