How to buy Beyond Meat stock | 184.14

Beyond Meat, Inc is a packaged foods business based in the US. Beyond Meat shares (BYND) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Beyond Meat employs 472 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$403.3 million.

How to buy shares in Beyond Meat

1. Compare share trading platforms. If you're a beginner, look for a platform with low commissions, expert ratings and investment tools to track your portfolio. Narrow down top brands with our comparison table.
2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Beyond Meat. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: BYND. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Beyond Meat reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$184.14, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Beyond Meat, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Beyond Meat. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Beyond Meat's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Beyond Meat's share price has had significant positive movement.

Its last market close was USD$184.14, which is 36.22% up on its pre-crash value of USD$117.45 and 282.19% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$48.18.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Beyond Meat shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$542.70 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$1,736.44.

Beyond Meat share price

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Beyond Meat shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-24.

Latest market close	USD$184.14
52-week range	USD$48.18 - USD$197.5
50-day moving average	USD$159.6415
200-day moving average	USD$143.7324
Wall St. target price	USD$115.58
PE ratio	600.1923
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-2.204

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Beyond Meat price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $184.14 from 2020-10-19

1 week (2020-11-18)	37.41%
1 month (2020-10-23)	7.23%
3 months (2020-08-25)	47.89%
6 months (2020-05-22)	34.61%

1 year (2019-11-25)	138.28%
2 years (2018-11-21)	N/A
3 years (2017-11-21)	N/A
5 years (2015-11-21)	N/A

Is Beyond Meat under- or over-valued?

Valuing Beyond Meat stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Beyond Meat's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Beyond Meat's P/E ratio

Beyond Meat's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 600x. In other words, Beyond Meat shares trade at around 600x recent earnings.

That's relatively high compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The high P/E ratio could mean that investors are optimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're over-valued.

Beyond Meat's PEG ratio

Beyond Meat's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 3.9757. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Beyond Meat's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Beyond Meat's EBITDA

Beyond Meat's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$13.8 million.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Beyond Meat's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Beyond Meat financials

Revenue TTM	USD$403.3 million
Gross profit TTM	USD$99.8 million
Return on assets TTM	-2.09%
Return on equity TTM	-7.44%
Profit margin	-6.97%
Book value	$6.058
Market capitalisation	USD$8.8 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Beyond Meat shares

There are currently 7.0 million Beyond Meat shares held short by investors – that's known as Beyond Meat's "short interest". This figure is 10.8% down from 7.8 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Beyond Meat shares can be evaluated.

Beyond Meat's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Beyond Meat's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Beyond Meat shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Beyond Meat shares traded daily (recently around 3.4 million). Beyond Meat's SIR currently stands at 2.05. In other words for every 100,000 Beyond Meat shares traded daily on the market, roughly 2050 shares are currently held short.

However Beyond Meat's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Beyond Meat shares, or, against the total number of tradable Beyond Meat shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Beyond Meat's short interest could be expressed as 0.11% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Beyond Meat shares in existence, roughly 110 shares are currently held short) or 0.1247% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Beyond Meat shares, roughly 125 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Beyond Meat.

Find out more about how you can short Beyond Meat stock.

Beyond Meat share dividends

We're not expecting Beyond Meat to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Beyond Meat overview

Beyond Meat, Inc., a food company, manufactures, markets, and sells plant-based meat products in the United States and internationally. It operates under the Beyond Meat, Beyond Burger, Beyond Beef, Beyond Sausage, Beyond Breakfast Sausage, Beyond Chicken, Beyond Fried Chicken, Beyond Meatball, the Caped Steer Logo, GO BEYOND, Eat What You Love, The Cookout Classic, The Future of Protein, and The Future of Protein Beyond Meat trademarks. The company sells its products through grocery, mass merchandiser, club and convenience store, natural retailer channels, direct to consumer, restaurants, foodservice outlets, and schools. The company was formerly known as Savage River, Inc. and changed its name to Beyond Meat, Inc. in September 2018. Beyond Meat, Inc. was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in El Segundo, California.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Beyond Meat is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 12.464% of Beyond Meat shares are held by insiders and 43.969% by institutions.

• How many people work for Beyond Meat?

  Latest data suggests 472 work at Beyond Meat.

• When does the fiscal year end for Beyond Meat?

  Beyond Meat's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Beyond Meat based?

  Beyond Meat's address is: 119 Standard Street, El Segundo, CA, United States, 90245

• What is Beyond Meat's ISIN number?

  Beyond Meat's international securities identification number is: US08862E1091

• What is Beyond Meat's CUSIP number?

  Beyond Meat's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 08862E109