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Card text CC BY 4.0, POPS4.", "notAdvice": "Reporting, not investment advice. No price targets, no buy or sell views.", "edgar": "🫧 Edgar looked up MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP ($MATW). Last filing: 8-K (1.01 Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement), 2026-09-04. 21 event filings (8-K) in the past twelve months.", "auditor": { "changes": [], "nonReliance": [], "restatedSince": null }, "metrics": { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-09-30", "revenue": 1497689000, "revenueGrowth1y": -0.16597530707447694, "revenueGrowthPerYear": -0.02700782342241781, "yearsOfData": 5, "operatingMargin": 0.050379618198437726, "operatingMarginPrior": -0.006862363475275054, "netMargin": -0.01633917321954024, "operatingCashFlow": -23550000, "capitalSpending": 35818000, "freeCashFlow": -59368000, "researchAndDevelopment": 16733000, "researchShareOfRevenue": 0.01117254650331277, "cash": 32433000, "longTermDebt": 710832000, "longTermDebtChange": -0.08453031487494, "revenueHistory": [ { "fiscalYearEnd": "2021-09-30", "revenue": 1671030000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2022-09-30", "revenue": 1762403000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2023-09-30", "revenue": 1880896000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2024-09-30", "revenue": 1795737000 }, { "fiscalYearEnd": "2025-09-30", "revenue": 1497689000 } ], "totalEquity": 480942000, "totalAssets": 1694442000, "equityRatio": 0.2838350324177517, "returnOnEquity": -0.05088139526179872, "dividendsPaid": 32759000, "payoutRatio": null, "dividendPerShare": 1, "dividendYearsRising": 12, "dividendCut": false, "priceBased": "Dividend yield, price/earnings and price/book need a share price. The boards carry filings only, so they are not shown.", "range80": { "low": 1060815362.3421255, "high": 1572215601.1475713, "baseline": 1333855604.6047096, "n": 4599, "band": "b1" }, "ifPaceHeld": { "low": 1060815362.3421255, "high": 1572215601.1475713 } }, "edgarette": "🔖 Exposure: revenue $1.5B (FY2025), total debt $710.8M. Experience: revenue down 16.6% on the year, down 2.7% a year over 4 years; operating margin 5.0%, up from -0.7%. Soundness: equity 28.4% of assets, return on equity -5.1%, dividend per share up 12 years running. Credibility: four or more audited years, reasonable weight. Range: 80% of past cases like this landed between $1.1B and $1.6B next year (method v3, set from 4,599 SEC company-years; on a year the method never saw, 83% landed inside). A range, not a forecast. Against peers (17 filers, $50M+ revenue, its industry group): operating margin 5.0% against a 8.1% median; growth -16.6% against 10.6%.", "peers": { "sic": 3360, "sicDescription": "Nonferrous Foundries (Castings)", "calendarYear": 2025, "minRevenue": 50000000, "depth": 2, "group": "33", "growth": [ 0.106, 22 ], "opMargin": [ 0.0812, 17 ], "equityRatio": [ 0.3812, 21 ], "returnOnEquity": [ 0.1143, 21 ], "payoutRatio": [ 0.241, 10 ] }, "summary": "Matthews International (MATW) saw revenue fall 16.6% in FY2025 to $1.5 billion, operating margin 5.0% against a 8.1% median for nonferrous foundries (castings), equity 28.4% of assets, and dividend per share up 12 years running. Every figure is from the company’s own annual report filed with the SEC.", "chart": "
MATTHEWS INTERNATIONAL CORP against its own record and its peers
Operating marginPeer median 8.1%5.0%Revenue, on the yearPeer median 10.6%-16.6%Equity of assetsPeer median 38.1%28.4%Return on equityPeer median 11.4%-5.1%Gold tick: the median of 21–21 peers with $50M+ revenue in nonferrous foundries (castings)
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Handed back now, or kept to compound
Of each dollar of profitHanded back per share$1up 12 years runningRevenue growth it managed-16.6%last year, for comparison

Gold is paid out to shareholders; navy is kept in the business. Retained profit times return on equity is the pace a company can fund from itself. Facts from the filings, not a recommendation.

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