The Zacks Food – Meat Products industry players have been benefiting from increased consumer demand for protein-rich products, driven by a heightened focus on health and wellness. Initiatives to leverage these trends through product diversification, capacity expansion and the exploration of plant-based meats have been highly effective.However, several meat companies have been battling hurdles associated with inflated input costs and high operating expenses. Nonetheless, the abovementioned upsides keep Tyson ...

Here's why the stock has bigger issues.It's been a difficult few years for Beyond Meat's (BYND -1.90%) stock, which is down 96% over the past five years, including falling 23% year to date.The company recently received more negative headlines when McDonald's (MCD -1.29%) discussed how two test markets using its plant-based burgers had failed.Let's take a closer look at the news, the issues the company has been facing, and what investors should do with the stock.A lack of demandMcDonald's recently came out a ...

Beyond Meat is struggling for its life today, and the next three years could determine whether it survives or not."We continue to work to position 2024 as a pivotal year as we strive to achieve sustainable and profitable operations." That was how Beyond Meat's (BYND -1.90%) CEO Ethan Brown ended his commentary on first-quarter 2024 earnings in the company's earnings news release. Although it is good that the food maker is working on its problems, it is not good that it has to work on any problems. Sadly, th ...

Plant-based meat maker Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND) is not an enticing long-term investment for conservative market participants. The company has consistently lost money. In addition, after posting revenue of $464.7 million in 2021, it has seen sales growth erosion. That’s not what you want to see for an industry that’s expected to blossom. Still, BYND stock could be a quick scalping opportunity for the contrarian trader.Fundamentally, Beyond Meat should perform better than it has. Since the start of the year, ...

The delicious, fourth generation Beyond Sausage offers enhanced flavor and meaty texture while raising the bar on nutrition and earning recognition from leading health organizations Now made with avocado oil, the new Beyond Sausage has just 2g of saturated fat per link and 17g of protein per link To celebrate the new fourth generation range, Beyond Meat is today debuting a first-of-its-kind cookbook, Serve Love, a collection of heart-healthy Beyond Meat recipes certified by the American Heart Association's ...

Plant-based meat producer Beyond Meat Inc. NASDAQ: BYND has a 39.81% short interest. Sentiment is negative for the stock as it continues to fall lower, trading down more than 25% year-to-date (YTD). The stock recently provided investors with a fleeting lifeline, briefly jumping to $10.31 on a short-lived meme stock revival led by GameStop Co. NYSE: GME on May 14, 2024. Shares have since given back all the gains and tacked on more losses.Beyond Meat operates in the consumer staples sector, competing with rea ...

The producer of plant-based meat products still needs to overcome a lot of challenges.Beyond Meat (BYND -0.13%), a leading producer of plant-based meat substitute products, went public on May 2, 2019, at $25 a share. Its stock closed at $65.75 on the first day and subsequently soared to an all-time high of $234.90 on July 26, 2019.At its peak, Beyond Meat's market cap reached $14.1 billion, or 47 times the revenue it would actually generate in 2019. The bubbly valuation made an easy target for the bears as ...

Investing in memes stocks has alternately proven to be extremely lucrative and also a very poor strategy. Pick a moment in time, and it's easy to find a narrative that confirms or disconfirms the inherent value of the grouping of stocks, popularly known as stonks to detractors. Whether meme stocks are up or down during a given period of time, they always suffer from groupthink. Serious investors need to do little more than read meme stock social media boards to understand that true investment analysis is no ...

These stocks have taken investors on rollercoaster rides that are unlikely to end well.There's a long list of stocks that soared during the pandemic only to crash as consumer behavior changed. Some of those stocks have staged recoveries, while others remain deep in negative territory and may never reclaim those pandemic-era highs.Peloton (PTON 10.51%) and Beyond Meat (BYND 2.37%) were high-flyers during the pandemic, but plunging demand for pricey exercise bikes and fake meat products has put the stocks thr ...

Is Beyond Meat a bargain buy or just a value trap?Beyond Meat (BYND -0.68%) was an exciting new stock to hit the markets in 2019. As a potential alternative to meat-based burgers, its plant-based products were definitely full of potential. But despite launching multiple products, Beyond Meat's business hasn't been taking off. In fact, sales have been declining of late.The company faces a challenging road ahead as it tries to generate sales growth while also paving a way to profitability. There's plenty of r ...