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The short versionA profitable company with growing sales. Institutions are adding.
Going well
- Sales up 42% in the latest quarter vs a year ago
- Profitable every year for 10 years
- Brings in more cash than it spends
Money moves
- No insider buying or selling in the last 30 days
- Institutions added 2.1% to their holdings in the quarter ending June 2026 (229 bought, 154 sold)
- Held by George Soros (Soros Fund), Ray Dalio (Bridgewater), Cathie Wood (ARK Invest)
Facts from SEC filings, not a recommendation.
What the price means
Price as of Oct 26
$226.81+2.8% that day
- Company value
- $4.7B
- Share price times all shares
- Price vs profit (P/E)
- 52.9x
- You pay about $53 for each $1 of yearly profit
- Price vs sales
- 2.3x
- Company value is 2.3 times a year of sales
- Dividend yield
- 0.2%
- Yearly dividend as a share of today's price
- Cash vs value
- 0%
- Cash as a share of company value
- Debt vs value
- 10%
- Debt as a share of company value
From MTRN's last IEX trade and its SEC filings (profits and sales over the last four quarters). A starting point for research, not a verdict.
The business over time
Last 12 quarters, from SEC filings
Sales, Jul '26$613.9M+42% vs a year earlier
Sep '23Tap a barJul '26
Last 12 months: $2.1B, up 22% from the 12 months before. Over 5 years, sales grew about 8.7% a year.
Business quality
The checklist Warren Buffett-style investors use. Annual numbers for 2025.- MissReturn on equity 15%+Earns a lot on the money owners have in the business.8.3%
- PassDebt under half of equityNot relying on borrowed money.0.49x equity
- MissNet margin 10%+Keeps at least 10 cents of profit from each dollar of sales.4.2%
- PassProfitable every yearSteady profits, not one good year.10 of 10 years
- PassFree cash flow positiveBrings in more cash than it spends to run and grow.$103.2M
- PassShare count not growingNot diluting owners. Falling means buybacks.+0.7% in 3 years
- MissGross margin 40%+Pricing power: sells for well above what it costs to make.17.3%
- Revenue
- $1.8B
- +6.0% vs prior year
- 5-year growth
- +8.7%/yr
- revenue, per year
- Total debt
- $460.6M
- 0.49x equity
- Current ratio
- 3.11x
- short-term assets / bills due
From annual reports filed with the SEC. A checklist is a starting point for research, not a verdict.
Latest quarter
Quarter ended Jul 3, 2026- Revenue
- $613.9M
- +42.2% YoY
- EPS
- $1.84
- vs $1.21
- Op. margin
- 8.4%
- -0.1 pts
- Gross margin
- 17.0%
- -2.1 pts
- Free cash flow
- $74.8M
- Share count
- +1.2%
- vs a year ago
Insider rating
Last 90 days
No open-market insider buys or sells in the last 90 days.
Weekly insider trendNo trades to chart yet.
Filing buzz
Last 7 days vs normal
0/ 100
- This week
- 0
- Normal week
- 2.1
- vs normal
- 0.0x
SEC filings of any kind. 50 means a normal week.
Institutional ownership
▲Accumulating+2.1%Institutions added 2.1% to their holdings. 229 bought, 154 sold. 2 quarters of net buying in a row.
Shares held by institutions20.4M
Sep '24Jun '26
Share count growthYearly rate, last 3 years
+0.3%Cash runwayAt last year's cash burn
Cash flow positiveDebt to equityLatest balance sheet: debt compared with what owners have
0.4x · $442.3M debtShares outstandingLatest reported
21MNext reportIn 0 days (est.)Estimated from the same quarter last year
- Results filedAug 5
- Results filedApr 29
- Results filedFeb 12
- Results filedJan 23
- Results filedOct 29, 2025
Flags and big holders
Offerings 6 months, flags 12 months, holders 90 days
No offerings, red flags or new big holders. Clean record.
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sells, last 90 days
No open-market buys or sells in 90 days. Grants and option exercises are left out.
"Owns after" is the insider's holding right after the trade. Pre-planned (10b5-1) sales are set up months ahead, a weaker signal.