Matthews International Corporation (MATW)

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's filings since 2017 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's 3 filed years say what it did: revenue went from $1.9 billion in fiscal 2023 to $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025, down 10.8% a year; it rose in 0 of 2 years; the deepest fall was 20% from fiscal 2023 to fiscal 2025; net income was positive in 1 of 3 of those years (its annual reports).

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-09-30, Matthews International Corporation's diluted share count shrank about 0.3% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 95% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 0 sales and 7 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-09-30, buying about $318 thousand (their Form 4 filings).

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-09-30, Matthews International Corporation lost about 5 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 30 cents per dollar of everything the company owns. Leverage: it owed about 72 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.6% over the year (the filed statements).

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's standing among 28 graded names in its industry family: revenue of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2025 ranks in the top 44% by size; a net margin of -1.6% ranks in the bottom 31%; revenue growth of -10.8% a year over the last 2 filed years ranks in the bottom 5% (its annual reports).

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's leadership, from its insiders' filings and its current reports: the chief executive on the record is Whitehead, Michael J (President and CEO, as filed), filing under that title since 2026-08-31, 2 months (bottom 11% of its family); the 20 officers and directors filing in the last fifteen months have been on the record a median of 6.5 years (top 40%); 10 officer or director changes were reported on Form 8-K since 2023-11-13, against the 20 people in charge now (bottom 36%; fewer changes for each person reads higher) (the Form 4 record, its Form 8-K reports). Years count from a person's first filing in the SEC's data sets, which begin in 2006, so each is a floor.

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of $32 million against debt of $704 million leaves -39.6% of its assets as net cash, bottom 5% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is -4% of revenue (bottom 17%); a gross margin of 33.9% (top 11%); research spending of 1.1% of revenue (top 46%) (its annual report).

From the record

Matthews International Corporation's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -10.8% a year over the last three filed years against -10.8% over all 3, speeding up (top 36% of its family); the newest year grew -16.6% (bottom 5%); research spending grew 2.5% a year (top 41%); capital spending grew -16.4% a year (bottom 20%) (its annual reports). Matthews International Corporation reported 3 lines of business in fiscal 2025: Memorialization at $810 million (54%), Brand Solutions at $346 million (23%), Industrial Technologies at $342 million (23%); 0 of 3 grew against the year before (its annual report).