Green Flagship “Beyond Meat” Shares Plunge After Debt Restructure
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Essay By Eric Worrall
Bill Gates’ Beyond meat, promoted as a climate friendly alternative to real meat, is struggling with consumer backlash against processed foods.
Beyond Meat’s stock collapses after debt deal
By Laurence Darmiento
Staff Writer
Oct. 16, 2025 3 AM PT
Shares of El Segundo-based Beyond Meat fell to less than $1 after a debt deal, down from their 2019 peak of nearly $235.
The plant-based meat maker has seen sales plunge from $465 million in 2021 to $326 million last year as consumers return to animal protein.
Second-quarter sales dropped 20%, part of a broader 18% decline across the U.S. plant-based meat industry over the last two years.
What does it cost a company when it’s no longer in the zeitgeist? For stockholders in Beyond Meat, perhaps as much as 99% of their money, if they bought at the top of the market.
Shares of the El Segundo maker of plant-based meats, an investors’ darling a few year ago, collapsed this week to less than $1 after the company wrapped up a deal to reduce its debt burden. The deal involves issuing up to 326 million new shares to the note holders.
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