Celsius Holdings, the Consumer Defensive sector company, was revisited by a Wall Street analyst today. Analyst Robert Moskow from TD Cowen maintained a Buy rating on the stock and has a $55.00 price target.
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Robert Moskow has given his Buy rating due to a combination of factors, including Celsius’s strong first-quarter performance, where both sales and profits exceeded expectations on the back of continued energy drink share gains and the scaling of the Alani partnership through PepsiCo. He also views management’s commentary on margins as favorable versus peers, with a credible plan to improve profitability in the second half of the year despite higher aluminum, resin, and freight costs, and he keeps his price target unchanged at $55.
Moskow regards the recent slowdown in Celsius-branded revenue as a short-term issue driven by SKU rationalization and timing mismatches with shelf resets, noting that core product velocities are already improving and that increased shelf space, innovation, and limited-time offerings should reaccelerate growth. In addition, he gains confidence from the company’s margin roadmap and cost-hedging strategy, including structural initiatives such as the Orbit model, freight and raw-material optimization, and locked or protected input costs, which collectively support the long-term path toward gross margins in the low-50% range.
In another report released today, Needham also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $75.00 price target.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 150 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of CELH in relation to earlier this year.