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MasterBeef Group

$MB·$153M·Restaurants·Consumer Cyclical
$5.30-12.0%1Y+20.5%
Mentions · last 7 days
2026-08-07: 650 posts2026-08-08: 47 posts2026-08-09: 68 posts2026-08-10: 97 posts2026-08-11: 36 posts2026-08-12: 37 posts2026-08-13: 27 posts962+4%
Price updated 8h ago·X counts updated 1d ago
MBMB
$MBMasterBeef Group
$5.30-11.96%962 posts+4%
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AI verdict & sentimentAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Top X posts

Today's AI verdict on what's driving $MB, plus how loud the X conversation is and which way it's leaning.

AI analysis

TickerTalks’ read on the fundamentals and what’s driving the move.

Driven by hypeStalledAI verdict · as of 2026-08-14

The move has stalled — likely just drifts unless something new shows up.

Chinese small-cap that ripped 275% intraday on nothing — the momentum crowd rotated in, then rotated out, and the tape has been quiet since.

MasterBeef runs Chinese-style hot-pot restaurants and recently added Thai gelato and tea franchise deals — the underlying business is a small Hong Kong restaurant operator with a US listing, not the kind of company that ordinarily gets $150M+ market caps assigned to it.

  • The recent 275% intraday move traded on a 4.7M share float with no substantive company news — that's the textbook microcap pump signature, not a valuation event, and the Thai gelato/tea PR being recycled multiple times is the tell that the flow was engineered rather than organic.
  • The underlying business gives no cover for the price: Q4 2025 revenue of $228M declined 17% YoY at a 4.2% gross margin and a -2.4% operating margin, with debt-to-equity at 4.5x — this is a stressed operator, not a growth story that could re-rate.
  • The tape has already cooled: shares sit at the 15th percentile of the 52-week range and 30-day volume is running at just 4% of average, so the crowd that was scalping between $10 and $17 has already left — what remains is a name whose trading depth can't support size in either direction.

What breaks the stall is either another coordinated pump (unpredictable, non-fundamental, and short-window) or an actual business improvement that shows up in the next quarterly print; absent either, the stock drifts and the risk is a long tail of continued volume decay until the next momentum crew rediscovers it.

Agrees with X sentimentThe mixed X read is honest — bulls celebrated the scalps and the $13-17 targets, bears warned of Christmas-tree fades and the no-shares-to-short setup. Both sides correctly identified this as a pump-and-quiet cycle rather than a fundamental event.

What to watch: Any fresh 8-K or PR announcement of scale (not another franchise deal), plus float and short-interest changes. Volume returning to 1x+ average without a paired PR is what signals the next momentum cycle; a genuine quarterly beat is what would justify actually holding.

microcap pump dynamics

X sentiment

What the X crowd is saying right now — descriptive, summarised from the day’s posts.

Bullish sentiment24 posts analyzed · as of 2026-08-14

MB chatter is a China-play daytrade rocket. Stock closed $3.75 on 8/6, opened $14.30 the next day, hit high of $19.75 (+325% at peak). 4.7M float with 18M shares traded by 10:10am. Regulators being tagged. Comparisons to FNGR and other Chinese low-float squeezers. Pure short-squeeze pattern-trading with no fundamental discussion; no bear voice.

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What it does

Plain-English summary of the business — what they sell and how they make money.

Hong Kong-based restaurant group operating Taiwanese hotpot and barbecue dining chains across Asia under the Master Beef brand.

Industry overviewAI analysisGenerated by AI from underlying data

Where Restaurants sits in its cycle right now — and what that implies for $MB.

Restaurants · Consumer Cyclical

No material change from last week — Food input cost inflation is the margin headwind across the sector; Cracker Barrel's turnaround narrative and CAVA's Mediterranean expansion are the two..

Industry benchmark

22-name peer basket
+21.4%YTD
+14.4%1Y

Fundamentals & catalyst

Profitability, valuation, and the next earnings event — at a glance, with rule-of-thumb signals.

Key ratios

P/E
-22.9How much investors are paying per dollar of profit the company actually earned in the last 12 months. Lower means the stock looks cheaper relative to earnings.~15–25 is typical for the S&P 500; high-growth names trade 30+; hyper-growth or speculative can be 100+ or negative.
ROIC
-8.8%What percentage return the business earns on every dollar of capital (equity + debt) deployed in operations. The cleanest measure of business quality.Above ~15% is high-quality; consistently above 25% suggests a real moat. Below the company's cost of capital is value-destroying.
Op margin
-5.0%Operating profit (after sales, marketing, R&D, and overhead but before interest and taxes) as a percentage of revenue. The clearest view of how well the underlying business is run.Mature business above 20% is healthy; software businesses can run 30%+; commodity / retail businesses operate in single digits.
FCF yield
0.0%Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capex) divided by the company's market cap. The cash-on-cash return you'd get owning the whole business at today's price.Above ~5% is attractive; below ~2% means you're paying up for growth. Capital-light businesses (software) run higher than capital-heavy ones (utilities).
P/S
2.6Same idea as P/E but per dollar of revenue. Useful for companies that aren't profitable yet, where P/E is meaningless.Under ~2 is cheap; software / SaaS often runs 8–15; well above 20 implies the market is pricing in very high future growth.
ROE
-91.2%Net income as a percentage of shareholders' equity. Similar to ROIC but counts only the equity side.Above 20% is strong, but can be inflated by leverage — a heavily indebted company can show high ROE with weak underlying ROIC.
Gross margin
5.3%Revenue minus the direct cost of producing what was sold, as a percentage of revenue. The first read on whether the product is structurally profitable.Software / SaaS is typically 70%+; consumer goods 30–50%; commodity / hardware businesses can be under 20%.
D/E
4.5Total debt divided by shareholders' equity. Measures how much the business runs on borrowed money versus owner capital.Under 1 is conservative; 1–2 is typical for mature businesses; over 2 is leveraged and more sensitive to interest rates.

Quarterly trend

QuarterRevenueYoYGrossOpEPSFCF
Q4 FY25$228.0M-17.0%4.2%-2.4%$-1.17—
Q2 FY25$232.3M-9.6%6.3%-7.6%$-1.88—
Q4 FY24$259.0M-48.1%13.2%3.5%$-0.43—
Q2 FY24$244.0M-49.5%7.5%-4.9%$2.34—

Setup & momentum

Volume, range, and moving-average position — the technical setup driving short-term moves.

Right now

Vol vs 30dToday's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.0.2×Today's traded share volume divided by the average over the prior 30 trading days. ≥3× signals unusual interest; below 1× is quiet.
52w rangeWhere the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.11%Where the latest close sits between the 52-week low (0%) and high (100%). Above 80% is extended; below 30% is basing or in a downtrend.
vs 50d MALatest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.+5.7%Latest close vs the 50-day simple moving average. Positive = short-term trend is up.
vs 200d MALatest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.-13.6%Latest close vs the 200-day simple moving average. Positive = long-term trend is up.

Float & profile

FloatTiny float · 4.7M shFree-float shares — the slice of issued stock actually available to trade. Lower buckets squeeze harder on a catalyst.Traded today5.5% of floatToday's volume as a percent of the free float. Above 5% on a single day is unusually high turnover for the available share count.β4.565-year weekly beta vs the S&P 500. Above 1.5 means the stock typically moves more than the index; below 0.8 moves less.

SEC filings

Material 8-K, 13D, S-3, and 424B5 events from the last 180 days — the filings that actually move the price.

Recent material filings

3New insider — initial holdingsApr 133
3New insider — initial holdingsApr 103
3New insider — initial holdingsApr 73
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 263
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 243
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 243
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 243
3New insider — initial holdingsMar 243
+ 6 other (2 6-Ks · 2 3s · 1 20-F · 1 NT 20-F) in window

Recent news

Latest headlines from major outlets, sourced and timestamped — context for whatever just moved.

MASTERBEEF GROUP Announces Strategic Franchise Partnership to Introduce Premium Thai Tea Beverage and Dessert Franchise in Hong Kong and Macauglobenewswire.com·30d ago

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