Industrials
Matson, Inc.(MATX)
Live Price
Offline$196.83
+2.92% today
1Y Change
+80.94%
Window
Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026
- Market Cap
- $5.28B
- Revenue Growth
- -2.3%
- EPS Growth
- -0.7%
- Dividend Yield
- 0.8%
Coverage: 248 bars ยท Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026
Research Briefing
A compact read on the setup, peer context, quarterly changes, and recent earnings reaction.
Research Snapshot
Matson, Inc. (MATX) is a Industrials stock with a market cap of $5.28B and listed on NYSE. The stock last traded around $196.83 and up 80.9% across the available one-year price window (Jun 25, 2025 โ Jun 22, 2026). Baseline metrics include revenue growth of -2.3%, EPS growth of -0.7%, a dividend yield of 0.8%. What stands out right now is revenue -2.3%, EPS -0.7%, free cash flow -66.4% with operating margin 14.0% and ROIC 8.8%. The dividend is present but secondary, with a yield around 0.8%. Valuation is more restrained than many high-expectation growth names at P/E 12.0 and price/sales 1.6. Overall, the current profile looks closer to a turnaround or cyclical reset than a generic broad-market placeholder. Stock Foundry combines MATX price history, valuation, growth, dividend context, earnings, analyst forecasts, news, related Industrials peers on this page.
Sector Context
How this name stacks up against nearby peers on first-pass metrics.
Revenue Growth
Below sector median
-2.3% vs +6.8% peer median
Operating Margin
Below sector median
+14.0% vs +16.9% peer median
P/E
Below sector median
12.0 vs 36.7 peer median
What Changed This Quarter
Latest report context and the signals most likely to have changed the story.
Latest report is on the board
2026 was reported on May 4, 2026, but the surprise data is still limited.
The operating picture looks softer than before
Revenue is at -2.3% and EPS is at -0.7%, with operating margin around 14.0%.
Shareholder return is still part of the story
The stock is still offering a dividend yield around 0.8%, which matters if the thesis depends on income as much as growth.
Earnings Reaction Memory
How the stock has tended to move after recent reports.
Across the last 3 reported quarters, the stock averaged +6.0% over the next 5 trading days and finished higher after 3 of those reports.
View quarter-by-quarter reaction table
| Quarter | EPS ฮ | 1D | 5D | 20D |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2026 May 4, 2026 | โ | +9.6% | +6.5% | +9.5% |
2026 Feb 24, 2026 | +24.7% | +1.8% | +0.9% | -2.3% |
2025 Nov 4, 2025 | +30.5% | +12.0% | +10.6% | +16.4% |
Benchmark Edge
MATX vs SPY, QQQ, and Sector ETFs
Normalized return, excess return, max drawdown, and calendar-year wins against the benchmarks investors actually use.
MATX
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Normalized return
SPY
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S&P 500
Excess Return
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Relative to SPY
MATX Max Drawdown
-24.29%
Trailing 1Y
SPY Max Drawdown
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Trailing 1Y
Calendar-Year Returns
Uses the longest available daily history for MATX and SPY.
Company Overview
Matson, Inc.
New York Stock Exchange
Matson, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides ocean transportation and logistics services. The company's Ocean Transportation segment offers ocean freight transportation services to the domestic non-contiguous economies of Hawaii, Alaska, and Guam, as well as to other island economies in Micronesia. It primarily transports dry containers of mixed commodities, refrigerated commodities, packaged foods and beverages, building materials, automobiles, and household goods; livestock; seafood; general sustenance cargo; and garments, footwear, e-commerce, and other retail merchandise. This segment also operates an expedited service from China to Long Beach, California, and various islands in the South Pacific, as well as Okinawa, Japan; and provides container stevedoring, refrigerated cargo services, inland transportation, container equipment maintenance, and other terminal services to ocean carriers on the Hawaiian islands of Oahu, Hawaii, Maui, and Kauai, as well as in the Alaska locations of Anchorage, Kodiak, and Dutch Harbor. In addition, the company offers vessel management and container transshipment services. Its Logistics segment provides multimodal transportation brokerage services, including domestic and international rail intermodal, long-haul and regional highway trucking, specialized hauling, flat-bed and project, less-than-truckload, and expedited freight services; less-than-container load consolidation and freight forwarding services; warehousing and distribution services; supply chain management services, and non-vessel operating common carrier freight forwarding services. The company serves the U.S. military, freight forwarders, retailers, consumer goods, automobile manufacturers, and other customers. The company was formerly known as Alexander & Baldwin Holdings, Inc. and changed its name to Matson, Inc. in June 2012. Matson, Inc. was founded in 1882 and is headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii.
- Leadership
- Matthew J. Cox
- IPO Date
- May 3, 1973
- Employees
- 4.4k
- Street Address
- 1411 Sand Island Parkway
- Mailing
- Honolulu, HI, 96819
- Region
- Honolulu, HI, US
- Reporting Currency
- USD
- Investor Line
- 808 848 1211
- Last Updated
- May 2, 2026
Key Fundamentals
Valuation, growth, profitability, and balance sheet signals.
Valuation
- P/E
- 12.0
- EV/EBITDA
- 7.1
- Price/Sales
- 1.6
- Price/Book
- 1.9
Growth
- Revenue
- -2.3%
- EPS
- -0.7%
- Free Cash Flow
- -66.4%
Profitability
- Gross Margin
- 22.8%
- Operating Margin
- 14.0%
- Net Margin
- 13.3%
- ROE
- 16.6%
- ROIC
- 8.8%
Balance Sheet
- Debt/Equity
- 0.26
- Current Ratio
- 0.89
Earnings Reports
Latest News
Official Releases
Company announcements and filings-style updates.
Next Step
Keep the research moving
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