Beyond Meat Stock Crashes Below $1: Debt Deal Sparks Investor Panic and Analyst Warnings
Beyond Meat’s collapse stands in sharp contrast to the broader market, which has been strong in 2025 (S&P 500 up ~14% YTD) ts2.tech. Instead of enjoying a 21st-century tech breakout, BYND is now one of the most-shorted stocks (short interest ~64% of float reuters.com) and a cautionary tale of peak hype turning to panic. Debt Restructuring Drowns Stock On Oct. 13, Beyond Meat announced that nearly all ($1.15 billion) of its 2027 convertible notes would be swapped into new debt and equity ts2.tech reuters.com. Under the deal, bondholders surrendered their convertible bonds in exchange for roughly $208.7 million of new convertible notes (7%,