Monster Beverage (NASDAQ: MNST) reported Q3 EPS of $0.48, $0.02 better than the analyst estimate of $0.46. Revenue for the quarter came in at $1.02 billion versus the consensus estimate of $987.92 million.

Rodney C. Sacks, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, said: “We are pleased to report record third quarter net sales of more than $1.0 billion, further demonstrating the strength of our brands.

“We continue to make progress in our strategic alignment with Coca-Cola system bottlers and have now fully transitioned Monster Energy® from our former Anheuser-Busch distributors to Coca-Cola bottlers in the United States. In the third quarter of 2018, we transitioned Monster Energy® in the remainder of Arkansas.

“We have expanded the distribution of Monster Energy® to 40 of the largest cities in India. Our products are now distributed in 75 percent of the country, and we anticipate national distribution by 2018 year-end.

“Monster Energy® was launched in Ecuador and Ukraine in the third quarter and we are planning further international launches later this year and in 2019. Mutant® energy, one of our affordable energy brands, was launched in Myanmar and Vietnam in the third quarter,” Sacks added. “We recently launched Predator®, our strategically preferred affordable energy brand, in South Africa and are planning launches of Predator® in selected additional markets in Eastern Europe and Africa.”

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