Is the business good?
How good a business is MATX?
Matson, Inc. earns 14% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so the business is worth more the bigger it gets.
14%
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 4.7 points above what the capital costs: growth creates value
- Operating margin
- 15%
Operating margin · Marine Shipping median 28% · 12 months to Q2 2026
- Cash conversion
- 0.62×
Cash conversion · 0.52× a year ago · some of the reported profit has not turned into cash yet
- Share count, year on year
- −6.5%
Share count, year on year · bought back, each share owns more of the company
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | 12% |
| FY2021 | 30% |
| FY2022 | 31% |
| FY2023 | 11% |
| FY2024 | 16% |
| FY2025 | 15% |
Details›
- Gross margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 116%
- Operating margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 15%
- Net margin12 months to Q2 2026
- 13%
- Free cash flow margin
- 8.3%
- Revenue, trailing twelve months
- $3.46B
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $287M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- $464M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- 14%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion from the cash flow statement.