What Happened?
Shares of nutrition products company Bellring Brands (NYSE: BRBR) fell 7.5% in the morning session after Deutsche Bank lowered its price target on the stock. The bank reduced its price target on BellRing Brands to $31 from $35, citing a potentially challenging quarter ahead and noting that trends for its Premier Protein product line were below management's initial expectations.
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What Is The Market Telling Us
BellRing Brands’s shares are very volatile and have had 22 moves greater than 5% over the last year. In that context, today’s move indicates the market considers this news meaningful but not something that would fundamentally change its perception of the business.
The previous big move we wrote about was 6 days ago when the stock gained 9.5% on the news that a major industry peer validated the company's core growth thesis. The primary catalyst emerged during a CNBC interview with Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey, who highlighted an undeniable surge in consumer demand for protein-enriched beverages. While Quincey specifically touted the explosive growth of Coke's own Fairlife brand, investors immediately extrapolated the commentary to BellRing's Premier Protein and Dymatize portfolios, viewing the sector strength as a rising tide for all category leaders. The market reaction was swift as Quincey linked this consumption shift to the broader adoption of GLP-1 weight-loss medications, noting that users of these drugs increasingly gravitated toward high-protein functional drinks to maintain muscle mass. This insight provided a crucial vote of confidence for the entire category, dispelling lingering fears that had recently plagued BellRing regarding retailer inventory levels and potential demand softness.
BellRing Brands is down 2.5% since the beginning of the year, and at $25.45 per share, it is trading 67.9% below its 52-week high of $79.39 from January 2025. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of BellRing Brands’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $1,047.
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