What Happened?
Shares of diversified solutions provider Matthews International (NASDAQ:MATW) jumped 14.4% in the morning session after the company announced the sale of its stake in SGK Brand Solutions (a branding and content business) to a newly formed entity created by affiliates of SGS. The deal is projected to generate up to $350 million for Matthews, improving its cash reserves and equipping the company with more capital to fuel new growth initiatives.
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What The Market Is Telling Us
Matthews’s shares are quite volatile and have had 17 moves greater than 5% over the last year. But moves this big are rare even for Matthews and indicate this news significantly impacted the market’s perception of the business.
Matthews is up 13.5% since the beginning of the year, but at $30.69 per share, it is still trading 13% below its 52-week high of $35.28 from January 2024. Investors who bought $1,000 worth of Matthews’s shares 5 years ago would now be looking at an investment worth $825.22.
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