MATMattel, Inc.
Is the business good?
The checks split: nothing decisive, though earnings fully cash-backed (1.8×).
Mixed fundamental signals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating profit is fully backed by cash. Conversion is improving vs a year ago.
Operating profit is falling even as sales grow, costs are outrunning the top line.
A balanced mix of margins, efficiency, and leverage. ROE 20% = margin × turnover × leverage.
Unless marked, from derived.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is MAT?
Mattel, Inc. earns 8.9% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 0.10 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Operating margin
- 7.8%
Operating margin · Leisure median 9.2% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 1.82×
Cash conversion · 1.33× a year ago · operating cash flow covers the operating profit after tax
- Share count, year on year
- −11%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 8.2% |
| FY2021 | 13% |
| FY2022 | 12% |
| FY2023 | 10% |
| FY2024 | 13% |
| FY2025 | 10% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 48%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.8%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 7.8%
- Free cash flow margin
- 9.3%
- R&D as % of revenue
- 4.8%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $5.49B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $513M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $427M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 8.9%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.