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title: "Beyond Meat Shares Rise 135% in Market Debut"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/fe1f112c-fbda-4bbc-ab66-2ca10b828492
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/beyond-meat-shares-rise-135-in-market-debut-2709858
category: "Finance"
topics: ["Finance & M&A","Development & multi-unit"]
published: 2019-05-03T15:10:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:32:10.080Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/e696ec8a994b4de401486acc087eec5a9949.jpg
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# Beyond Meat Shares Rise 135% in Market Debut

**TL;DR:** Beyond Meat's shares rose 135% in its market debut, raising its market value to $3.52 billion. The company is focused on building its business and cutting into the market share of the global meat industry.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-05-03. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/beyond-meat-shares-rise-135-in-market-debut-2709858).*

## Story

As more consumers turn to meat alternatives to maintain healthier diets and reduce their impact on the environment, companies that produce plant-based meat alternatives are reaping the benefits, Beyond Meat among them. When the company made its public market debut on Thursday, its shares soared 135%, raising its market value to $3.52 billion.

“We’re just looking forward to building the business, and I think the reaction from the market is a reflection of the fact that we’re highly focused on collapsing the gap between our products and animal protein,” Beyond Meat CEO Ethan Brown told CNBC.

Brown said that as his company grows, it isn’t focused on the competitors in the marketplace like Impossible Foods, a company that has recently struggled to keep up with demand for its product; rather, Beyond Meat has its sights set squarely on cutting into the market share of the $1.4 trillion global meat industry.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- General (sector)
- Beyond Meat (company)
- Impossible Foods (company)
- plant-based meat (topic)
- meat alternatives (topic)
- market debut (topic)
- market value (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/beyond-meat-shares-rise-135-in-market-debut-2709858). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/fe1f112c-fbda-4bbc-ab66-2ca10b828492).